Been behind uploading my characters. I’ve haven’t drawn a fox in a long time
Tag: dailies
Pea Shooter (D43)
A little fan art for the release of Plants Vs Zombies Garden Warfare 2. This is the Pea Shooter. He dislikes zombies.
Jungle Ruins (D40)
I felt better and wanted to work on a painting. I’ve been in an artistic knot for some time now and haven been happy with my work. One of the main reasons is because I stopped doing long periods of sketching and and not putting in the hours needed to improve on a regular basis.
Granted, I have been busy with a new job and working on commissions. Also trying to to learn Javascript and SEO/marking for my new job. Taking time to work on sketching and painting instead of playing games or wasting time on the net in my spare time. But an artist must not just draw what they feel comfortable with and must push further work further.
So here we are. I found a complex CC image of ruins on Flickr and did a painting based on it
Reference image by Clay Gilliand https://www.flickr.com/photos/26781577@N07/12664003153/sizes/o/
I might finish it tomarrow.
For encouragement I’ve been watching tutorial videos on Pluralsight and returned to Oatley Academy’s Magic Box
I got some good advice from a couple youtube video interviews from artists and I would like to share them with you:
The 20/80 rule – doing 20 percent of the foundationial work correctly will effect 80 percent of the outcome. you could also see it as 20 refs, studies, and blocking in, 80 clean up and detail work.
Only be as fast as you can be accurate. Take your time, if you make mistake after mistake, it will start to build into a painting full of errors. Don’t fall into the trap of ‘speed painting’.
I you don enjoy a subject, why paint it, because if you don’t like what you’re drawing, people will get that when looking at the image.
‘Straits against curves’, it’s a cool line technique to avoid a sketch from having sameness
My goals as an artist is to slow down, take note of correct proportions, and search for the ‘character’ in everything I draw and to paint with a story in mind, even if is minuscule.
Alex runs into the Art Monster(D38)
I did this fun little sketch/painting in ArtRage of my character Alex running into a monster.One of Artrage’s greatest strengths is in it’s oil paint brushes and color mixing.
Socially Awkward Dragon (D33)
Not all dragons kidnap princesses and sleep on on a bed of gold. Some dragons are glued to their computers and sleep on a bed of comic books. I was going to post this yesterday but my internet was down last night (a event that is becoming more annoyingly common)
Sarah the Scorceress (D25)
I think I came out decent for a daily painting
I referenced a stock photo by Jaggeded Eye on FA for this sketch
Senshi Playing a Violin (D24)
I’ve finished uploading to my Deviant Art page. The great artists on that site me jolted me. I realized that, although i draw ok monsters, I need to work on my humans, and drawing things from life in general.Thankfully DA has many wonderful models that allow artists to use their photos for reference and study. One is Senshi of Senshistock.
I painted her face more toony so not to get too caught up in facial details.. and might have over done it. I was too tired to finished the legs so now they look like they where ripped off… zombie
I might try a costumed character tomorrow. Sorry if this painting is shit, it will take me a few of these studies to get back into the grove of drawing people.
My typical gaming session with friends(D17)
This picture has nothing to do with Pokemon. Dear lord, a kyogre is hard to anthropomorphize!
Noodle Sea Monster (D16)
A long noodle like serpentine sea monster. I’m very happy with this sketch as I was able to focus mainly on forms. something that line drawings make difficult at times.
Butterfly Creature (D13)
I wanted to draw a butterfly monster that looked graceful and ‘stringy’; this is the result. %100 percent out of my imagination.