Weekend paintings

Today as a break from everything in the day, I decided to paint some fish. it was rather soothing and I'm happy with how its turned out. I need to work on my backgrounds more but that's always a work in progress.

Morning arts

Here is another piece that I have started in Sketchbook pro. I can't believe how much I enjoy the pencil tool in this program, it's such a blast. This time I took the pencil sketch into photoshop to finish it up. Nothing too special, Just something i wanted to try and finish in the morning. Trying to use everything I learn in each new piece I do. Value layer and sketch are below.

Sketchbook/Correl test

Just a test piece to mess around with sketchbook and correl. Not used to correl at all, I want to get the hang of it because I like the idea of it but I feel much more in control in photoshop.

Sketchbook is really fun to use though. Value's and everything are probably pretty off but oh well.

The sketch is below.

Happy Valentine's day!

Happy Feb. 14th. Hope for the best to you and your's, here is a piece I've been working on for a while for a friend. Pretty happy with how it turned out even with all the frustrations it brought me. i learned a lot from it and hope to apply that to future art. Hope you enjoy.

EDIT: posted wrong picture. Final one is up now.

Starting off slow.

It's been far too long since I've done a single piece of art. At least a piece that I'm done with and just don't get discouraged with and end up doing nothing. I want to change that and to do so I've decided to start doing a series of quick sketches in the morning before I go to work.

Nothing fancy, nothing too special, just whatever comes to mind. No real worry about rendering, just throwing stuff on the canvas and getting back into the groove of things.

Ive recently bought KOF13. Amazing game, one of the best fighters that has come out this generation. Unforgiving and really requires you to know your shit. I plan to go pretty hard in this game so I decided to sketch out one of my favorite characters. I might end up just drawing my team with these paintings if thats what happens.

So today we have one of the members of team Japan. Mr. Goro Daimon. Hope you enjoy. About 1h in photoshop.

We In There

Hey, it feels like its been a while since I last posted. Maybe not really as long as I think but it feels like it, still been working on random art pieces trying to find something that's right. Lately been helping out www.cantnerfskill.com a gaming t-shirt site that just launched. Trying to bring dope ass shirts to dope ass people.

I'm trying my hand at the character of the week over at conceptart.org. First time I've ever entered so I'm somewhat nervous about it but still having a blast with it. The theme of this week is to create a super hero and his alter ego. For some reason djinn's have been on my mind, so the character I'm creating is sort of on the 'SHAZAM' side of super heroes. A regular kid who finds an ancient relic (Lamp) that when he activates it (Rubs lol) bestows the power of the djinn on him. Still a work in progress but I'm having a lot of fun with it.

Skullgirls

This weekend I've been bouncing around to various pieces here and there. Sunday morning I wanted to do a portrait of someone, I thought it was going to be a dota 2 piece of someone's head, turned out that when I started drawing it was going to be Fillia from Skullgirls.

This was a very tough piece for me because I haven't ever made a female before outside of a life drawing class, and even those weren't very good. I've always have trouble with females maybe due to lack of experience (well definitely that reason) as well as what the 'trick' is to drawing them. I'm pretty proud with how this turned out. I didn't want to spend a million years on it because I figure if I try and make it perfect I'll never finish it. I need to finish this, be happy with it and then take the lessons that I learn from it and take those to the next piece.

I used an Adam Hughes illustration of catwoman for the pose of the face and help with the color range and values in the face. Hopefully in the future i'll be able to make pieces without having to copy most of the information from someone's else and can use a variety of references and create work that will be mostly all from my own skill. But it was good practice to study and borrow from someone who is amazing at drawing females.

Anyways here is Fillia. I'm happy with it, so far about half the month has gone by in my month of art. I'm not really having any problems with wanting to play games, I just watch videos and draw while I watch them. I really hope I can make it the rest of November without gaming and then move on from there.

And I hope that through this month I can level up my art game and then keep it going from there.