Day 6

Working on getting faster and focusing on learning instead of perfecting.  I have the tendency to over zoom on all of the work I do and focus on irrelevant details.  These last two studies were exercises in not doing that (very little on the last one and not at all on this one).

Day 5

Day 4

Study from Day 4 of my Deathline.  I tried a whole bunch of different things on this.  It feels a little too clean and sterile, but overall I'm happy with the result.  The drawing is fairly accurate and I'm starting to grasp how to render skin.  I was tackling several different things with this study.  Focusing on forms of hands, metal rendering, skin rendering, and implying things quickly (the background, the boots, pants and top).

Also, toe-thumb much?

Day 3

The study for the day... working on Asian skin tone and portrait.
First set of figure drawings is from yesterday's session.  Second is today's.

Day 2

Deathline Day 2! Study of a white wolf for my Princess Mononoke poster.  Learning how to render fur and lighting in a wooded setting.  I also did an hour of figure gesture drawing.  It's been about 8 years since I've attempted anything like that so it was kind of eye opening.  I used the website Pixelovely for the exercise.  I'll probably upload them tomorrow.

Deathline Day 1

This is my study for Day 1 of my Deathline Challenge.  I've never (ever) painted an environment.  I do have a distant mountain side city environment in the piece I'm working on, so that was the main point of this study.  I stopped at a little over 2 hours because I didn't want to get that far into this.

Recent Studies

These studies were done for my Bloodsports 4 entry.  Only the bottom one (Undertaker) was really relevant since I did not do my initial design concept which was my character crawling toward us which would show a close up of his leather jacket.

The hand study was essentially the first true study I've ever done in digital paint.  Each of these took much longer than I would have liked.

Recent Sketches - January '12

These are sketches from the beginning of the year and up to about January 20.  Pretty much just random stuff.  The more rendered drawings at the bottom were from magazine reference.  The last sketch was a concept for my Bloodsports 4 entry.