Monday, September 11, 2017

Camel Still life Study


Camel Still life Study
I had hoped to have finished two other larger more involved pieces by now but I still need to do more work on them.  In the meantime here are the studies from this week. This is the first still life I have done in a while.  Took about 2 hours.  I did it just to get some practice with materials. Below are some of the ink sketches.  Each about 30 minutes from photos.  The ice sketch is a from a painting  Edward Seago .   I am trying to cycle through different subjects and  get as much diversity as I can.  The knights are fun to do in ink. 

Trees Landscape ink
Photo study ink 
Ice Landscape ink

Still life ink
Portrait ink



Tuesday, September 5, 2017

Portrait study 31 and 32

Portrait study 32 


Coincidentally did a mostly portraits and anatomy study last week. 
Portrait study 31
 This ink sketch is a study of a Rubens portrait.  I used the colour information from this portrait in the Hound portrait study above.  
Sketch ink 
The other images are anatomy studies.  There number 1 is because I don't think I was tagging these previously.  Mist of the anatomy studies I have been doing have been in traditional media and I haven't posted them regularly here.  
anatomy 1a

Anatomy 1b

Anatomy 1c 

Monday, August 28, 2017

Ink practice

Gateway
Vessels ink
Fencer ink
Interior Study 10

Some ink studies. I have been using a book - Rendering in Pen and Ink by Arthur Guptill.  There is some instruction but I got it mostly for the  collection of different artists and their styles.  I use a regular ballpoint for sketching but have tried to use a dip pen for some.  All are works from photos.  

Monday, August 21, 2017

Samurai Snail


Samurai Snail


Giraffe Mage
Bull Blacksmith

Interior Study 10
Portrait study 31

portrait study 31 b

Changed things up a bit and designed these animal characters.  Hoping to practice a different style and trying to stretch a few design muscles.  
The interior is a study from photo reference.  I Liked it because it was a little bit moody and had a few interesting textures and edges.  
The last batch are all practice from photo reference.

Tuesday, August 15, 2017

Scaling

Scaling
 This one looked to have potential back in the sketch phase so I spent some time working on it in greyscale then added colour.  
The one below is a study from a photo looking at bounced light.  



Interior Study 8

Tuesday, August 8, 2017

Inside / Outside


Bubble suit 

The suit is a continuation of the work from last week.  Just playing around with ideas.  The interior study is from a photograph.  I did it after looking at a breakdown of an interior by Kayurova  on Artstation.  
Interior study 7 

Tuesday, August 1, 2017

Practice Practice

Suits Variations
 Spent this week working on technique.  Looking at some different approaches to get a cleaner finish and setting a work flow up to allow easy editing.  Also looking at material rendering and to that end did this study of a hockey goalie pad from photo reference.

Hockey Goalie Pad


Big Bear Game Art

  I started creating a series of promotional art for a ficticious game.  This was to practice going through the design process.  I have foun...