Horseman Attacked - draft

Horseman attacked draft

Horseman attacked draft 2

I decided to keep going with the personal work.  This one was a challenge as I wanted to get some decent poses.  I started with the the black and white draft then added colour.  I had a reference for the horses pose but the tigers I had to wing it. 

Spanner - Study

Spanner - Study

Here is a quick lunchtime study of a spanner.  About 30 minutes.  Just wanted to get some still life practice in. 

Lets Play - Final

Lets Play-Final

This is the final steps for the image started here.  There was some movement of the figures and addition of some environment.  I did a few different colour schemes but this one was the most interesting and the one that got worked to a finish,  I suppose it is kind of fitting that this is completed just as the Olympic games ends.  The phrase that was repeated most from the interviewed athletes was hard work pays off.  I hope so!

Dog Sketch 2

Dog Sketch 2

Dog sitting.  Very quick 5 min sketch of a sleeping dog left to lie.

Lets Play - start

Lets play draft 3

Lets play draft 2

Lets play draft 1

A while ago I did a character  concept  and shortly afterwards a beast.  I had figured they would exist together so I wanted to make an illustration with them both in action.  Above are the first stages of the illustration.  I started out in greyscale to work out as much detail as possible.

Roman Soldier study

Roman Soldier study

A photo study.  I copied a photo from a site which has a large number of photos taken at a history festival.

Garden oil painting-Final

Garden Oil Painting

This is an oil painting I did of a garden. Despite the miserable summer weather things are still growing. Had not done any painting in a while and it was good to get back to doing this.    The painting is done on MDF with gesso.  It is large, maybe 20" x 15".  Took about 9 hours. 

Creature 2 - bobob

creature - bobob

I doodled this and thought it would be fun to complete so I kept working on it.  It is a bobob. 

Hand Study

Hand study

Yip I am still trying to keep some studies going.  I have kept sketching with pencil and paper.  The majority of this kind of work I get done at lunchtime.  Here are some hand studies.  I plan to make my way through Loomis for the remainder of the Summer. 

Flight

Flight

This began as a bit of doodle and grew and grew.  I knew i wanted to do something with a lighter palate and this was as good a subject as any. 

I had all the basic stuff down reasonably quickly but the rendering and detailing well that took way longer.  Things definitely got more static as I rendered it further.  It is still a shock how long it is taking me to get to a point where a piece looks finished.  I think if I focus more and have a clearer idea of what I need to get too it would go faster.  On the other hand I am trying to learn as i go so lots of mistakes.