House - Pen and ink

House - Pen and ink

I am working on a lot of things right now but this was a study I did to practice my pen and ink.  This was done with a dip pen.  The trick with these renders is to design the light and dark regions. It got to heavy in the lighter areas.   Was not so successful with this one but it was good practice.

Book cover

Book Cover - Immortality

This was a commission I did recently for a fantasy  book cover.  You can view the project here.  I have also kept working on the seascapes and lots of other stuff so a bit of juggling is required to keep everything progressing.  

Temple in Sandstorm

Temple 

Temple sandstorm

I have been working on a couple of bigger projects but I managed to play around with this.  I was practicing some basic isomorphic design and then went ahead and played with some more Photoshop animation. 

Seascape 2

Seascape 2

As promised another installment of the seascape project.  Still lot to work on here hopefully I can keep some momentum on these.  Other work going on but will do my best to keep it going.  

Seascape 1

Seascape 1

For as long as I have been painting this is my first seascape in traditional media.  Even this is a bit timid but I plan to do a few more of these.  On the other end of the spectrum I did a gif just to wind down.  I am streaming these warm down sessions on Twitch so you check out the VODs or catch me live.

HM Gif

Variations

H Matisse 1 

H Matisse 2

H Matisse 3

Its been a challenging week - some hard lessons learned.  Most of my time has been spent doing client work and that old classic freelancer experience of working and not been paid- watch out for that one.  Fortunately it is not my typical experience so far. Anyway I did get a little time to try out some simpler rendering - producing the 3 Matisse.  
I also returned to my roots doing pencil work.  It was what I started out doing and I deliberately avoided it for the past number of years.  Forcing myself to work with the unforgiving pen.  It was a bit of jolt to realise how imprecise the mark is compared to the pens.  I ended up having to take the image into Photoshop to clean it up. 

House - pencil 

Two Landscapes

Cottage Study

Forest Scene 1

Last week was a week of studies and trying out stuff some of it was more comfort zone like the cottage study and some of it was new like the forest scene.  The forest scene was an attempt to do a more stylised landscape.  I followed a Youtube tutorial   by  Andrea Gerstmann and learned a lot. I even used some features on Photoshop for the first time.   I have committed to doing a whole set of these to get some practice and get quicker.