Camouflage

Camouflage

Tried out a full on illustration.  It dropped out of a photobashing exercise.  Looking at the starting point i can see I could have taken a more dramatic direction but this is where I ended up.  I think when I take this as a starting point it, rather than confining opens up more possibilities.  The battle with this was to cool the palette down which I tried to do maybe could have gone even cooler in passages.  

Interior Study

Interior Study

Did this study quite a while ago.  A study from a photo.  Not one the recent pieces I have been working on.  I started a few this week but none are complete.  I got a new tablet -Wacom Pro medium during the week and spent 3 evenings trying to get it to work.  Drivers are a disaster- had to disable some windows settings to get them loaded.  Finally ended up working with an earlier version driver.  Never had any problems with my old Intuos 3?  Guess that's progress.   

Welder

Welder

Worked on this one for a while.  Used a few textures here and there to move things along.  Still fussed over the details and I could have worked on it for a lot longer to polish. This is it for now.  

Ready

Ready 

Started doodling this while working on a more complicated piece.  I finished this reasonably quickly - most complicated part were the arms.  Pattern was an overlay.  Was initially going to add a lot of equipment but in the end kept it simple.  

Remote

Remote

A simpler effort.  Working on atmosphere.  

Leap Year

Leap Year

Cheated a little on this.  It was started on valentines day.  I was watching Suzanne Helmighs stream.  Suzanne threw out a mini challenge to do an unlikely valentine.  It was planned to be done in about 2 hours.  I did get a lot of the figure drawn in the 2 hours.  I kept working on it and worked it into an illustration re-purposed for the leap year.    

Interior 5

Interior 5

From the low number on this image it is clear interiors have been something I have avoided.  This is a study from a photo reference. I followed it up with an imagination piece which will follow.  Think I am a little more comfortable doing these so probably more to follow.