practice

dude practice. Was working on it and then had to stop. Lost the motivation to keep working on it. I'll draw something else then. Have to keep getting better.

Dhalsim.

Finished my first ever sim art. Learned a bunch, have a lot more to learn still.

Practice

Haven't posted anything here in a while. Did some practice while watching the super bowl. One of those days where I feel like I can't draw for crap so hopefully this helps me get past that mood.

I don't scare

So yesterday I did a greyscale of that character I was working on. I said that I was too intimidated to try and use color, well fuck that. I won't ever understand color if I never try to use it. Here I messed around with trying to color the head. Don't really know how it turned out. I don't think the eyes are right but it's a start. My girlfriend says I need to do something not evil. Next thing I draw will probably be something cute. Not sure what though yet. That will be all color too.

till next time.

Goblin Bard

Hello all,

This is a concept I've been playing with in my head for a while. Feels good to get it out of my head. I need to keep working and improving my digital work. I'm very intimidated by working digital because I'm still not confident enough to take things from greyscale to color. Soon though.

That aside, this is Zettick, he is a goblin bard. He is a bard that is attuned to the earth element. He is a rock bard. I didn't draw his guitar yet because I still haven't fully decided how I want it to look but with his guitar before he fights he hits the ground with it and two giant boulders come out of the ground that act as speakers for his performance. During fights while he is playing some awesome rock song if he chooses to he can use the whammy bar on his guitar to switch his song from buffing his allies to either debuffing or damaging his enemies.

He can also use crystals that can appear in front of his speakers to alter the affects of his songs. Different minerals can be used for different effects (thanks Junio!) . I really want to take this character and further develop him. But here he is for now. Hope you enjoy.

Update

Just a quick update to show i'm still alive. Haven't done any work on the computer but am always sketching lately while at work. Just two sketches i did today while there. One guy I called 'The Grand Seraphim'. Some sort of angelic creature.

The other character is one i've been working on for a while, I don't have a full name for him aside from him being 'The First Carved'. The idea was the first gargoyle that was ever created by a very powerful sect of Paladins. They carved him to protect their fortress from intruders while they were away on a pilgrimage or fighting evil. A long time has passed since he was first made, the paladin sect has long abandoned the fortress and he remains, guarding an empty fortress. He wasn't the only gargoyle made but as he was the first he commands the rest of the lesser ones that the sect made. None is as powerful as he and all obey his will. 

A cool idea I have been working on is to make his weapon a sort of mace that is made from like 3 gargoyles that land on the top of it and turn to stone to create the head of the mace. I had a sketch somewhere but I don't know where that is now.

Might as well show off all the stuff i've been doing. The next character is a sort of monk character, as a right of passage all of the young males in the village must undergo a ritual where they endure a terrible pain by some deadly ethereal snake things. They must put their hands in this box with two of them and last a certain amount of time (maybe some sort of chant) and then also not die. . . cause that would be them failing too lol. Anyways, this dude (the story I have somewhere is much more thought out) put his hands in there and didn't wince in pain or anything like that, cold stone face like a boss. When the elders opened up the box the snakes were gone! But his hands were all black and shit now. The ethereal snake things have fused with him and now he can control snake powers and stuff when he fights. He has long hair and uses two small snake things to tie his hair back. When he fights he can do a sort of two handed palm thing to his enemy, the snakes (oh yeah they look like an awesome tattoo on his arms also) then leave his arms and transfer to his enemy, they then make some sort of tattoo on the enemie's chest or whatever and cause them to writhe in pain until they die. Or if he calls them back.

This dude is a swordsman whos can use his demon arm or some sort of elemental power to infuse his sword when he attacks. The sword is the main part that I was focused on when making this guy, I think it looks awesome. he holds it with the separate handle and the strap holds onto him and the sword kinda like how a guitar strap holds on, but maybe not as tight. And when he is just traveling or whatever the sword would hang behind him like a guitar would for a traveling music player man. In some of the later sketches i've done He doesn't have the arm with eyes thing (the eyes would open depending on which element he is using for his attack while the rest stay closed). But I might go back to that, it looks pretty sick. 

Anyways those are some of the sketches and things pouring out of my brain. I don't know who reads this if anyone does but there ya go. Enjoy and thanks for checking this out. 

Vote for isaac

Vote for isaac for skullgirls! Do it.

Skullgirl! Kinda.

Man, It's been amazing to see how well the Skullgirls fundraiser has gone. If you didn't know, the skullgirls team has been working on the game without pay for about a year now. They decided to try out a fundraiser on indiegogo to get out a new character they had started on before they lost their jobs (along with stretch goals for the first male character and a third at a much higher price). Today, they hit the goal for Big band! 375k with about 14 more days to go! It's really amazing to see.

So in honor of that I decided to do a sketch of one of the mystery characters that is a possibility for the 3rd slot. The bee chick Q bee 5 way air dasher herself. Hive.

I want to add color soon because a color like yellow seems like it will be fun to paint.

Go donate! They are such an amazing and transparent team that deserves every penny (and then some!).

http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/keep-skullgirls-growing

Dragon

So I realized yesterday that I have never really tried my hand or actually knew how to draw a dragon. As silly as that is I don't think I ever sat down and studied what a damn dragon is, or at least how to start them.

I started by taking a picture of a simple lizard and tried to alter it after sketching that out a bit. Taking the start of it and making it look more fierce and gong from there. This is something I need to work on more, using real life animal reference and making fantasy creatures and shit.

Well here I guess is a dragon.

TOOOOOOOOOMBA!

One birthday, my parents got me Tomba! 2. Man, what a fucking game. All of my friends and I stayed up the entire night damn near beating that game. To this day it is still one of my favorite games. Just overall great,  I love everything about it and I try to go back and play it every now and then and to me it still keeps up to this day.

And c'mon, pink fucking hair. Squirrel suit, fire hammer. Fuck those pigs.

Anyways, I had to do something for Tomba! It was a very important piece of my childhood. I'm going to try to go through and illustrate those important memories of my childhood. This is just the first one. Not sure what the next one will be but I'll keep them coming.

Spaceman

I did another space character. This was one of the poor space crew that had their lives taken when the commander they thought they could trust gave in and forsook his humanity and his crew for greater power.


He is a space lich. This would be one of the basic creatures that guard the way to the Space Lich's inner chamber.

I had fun painting it for the most part. I didn't really work on it as a whole as I should have, I ended up focusing on parts at a time, I ended up working on the shoes last and was starting to run out of steam so I think they are the weakest part. Next time I'm going to try to work on the entire character as one instead of rendering each part a little at a time. I dunno. It was still fun.

I'm done with him for now.

Here is a progression picture of how I worked on it.

http://i.imgur.com/nTj7X.jpg

Space guy

As usual whenever I do a painting that I'm not 100% satisfied with I tend to do another one that I really put more time into. This time it was some sort of space guy monster whatever.

random

Trying something new, wanted to mess with a hard round brush at 100% opacity. Makes me really think about each stroke more than I normally do. Gotta get back on this art shit and shit.

Random shit today

Value Study

I need to keep practicing, gotta learn the basics so I can then draw awesome dragons and shit. More practice hopefully will mean more better.

Here is a cat.

Same color as my cat but much fatter.

Late night painting.

Just a little late night painting. Half finished as always. =/ I'm trying to find a better work flow, so that way even when I don't finish a piece, it still feels more done than most. I always find myself always jumping ahead, I think I did that this time too. I need to work on my pieces more as a whole than trying to do piece by piece.

Oh well, each stroke I learn something new.

I call him Tonarck

Got some new Prisma Color greyscale markers yesterday. Feel more motivated. First full page anything I've done. Pretty proud of the direction this can lead me. 

just something.

Punzie

Hey all, here is a concept that's been on my mind for a while. While my GF was watching the movie 'Tangled' I saw a scene where Rapunzel's hair gets braided by little kids, and I thought to myself 'Self, wouldn't that be pretty awesome if she had a blade at the end of her hair and fought with that?'

And so I drew of some concepts today and came up with this, I like the direction I went with her costume but I think I need to tweak it some more to make it more dynamic, I want more flowing pieces of cloth on her so when she fights its almost like a dance. But at the same time I want it to be practical.

That may come later, but for now, this is what you get. Below is a page of concepts I made before doing the main piece.