Interior study 1 Airport interior

Airport interior -Photoshop study

This is one of the first interior studies I have done.  The reference was of from an  airport (Dubai I think).  The big challenge with these is perspective.  I don't think you can get away fudging on that.

figure study - Bloodsports 8

Suit - photoshop study

 After settling on the theme of Maxx Marnsden for the Bloodsports 8 challenge I was still mulling approaches.  Even without this I knew I would need some astronaut stuff.  While searching through images I came across some describing the suiting up process.  This is the undergarment worn.  It is interesting as you can still see the flesh colour below the suit. 

BLOODSPORT 8! Choose Your Own Adventure

Yeah Bloodsports is off and running again. 

Of the three challenges I will have a go at the Maxx Marsden- Maxx Marnsten 2099 - 'The ladies love him... But he'd rather be alone'**.   

The theme is scifi and i have not done any is this in a serious way yet so here I go!

KEY ELEMENTS - Futuristic, Scifi

Figure studies -1-watercolour

Full Figure 1

Full Figure 2

This was some figure drawing practice .  I also  wanted to have some watercolour practice.  This was the first time I tried watercolours.  I had previously tried watercolour pencils.  The paints are harder as you have to control edges.  The watercolours will take practice as you have to work light to dark.  What they would undoubtedly do is make me more disciplined as you have to have a plan before you start.   I repeated the same study the next day with a slightly different approach. The reference was from Inspirational Artworks.  There are an unbelievable number of anatomy learning tools available there. 

Portrait Practice 3

With some time available I completed another portrait.  The aim of this was to push to the piece to finish it as much as possible.  I started fooling around with textures and brushes. 

The reference was from Tim Remick photography.     A study of climbers immediately after their decent.

Puppy - Photoshop Study

Poppy -Photoshop Study

My sister got another puppy.  This is Poppy a King Charles/ Shitzu cross.  I had to puppy sit.  She was only about 7 weeks old when I snapped the photo.  The study was about 8 hours.  I wanted to work on putting in hues particularly in the white areas.  after the cahllenge work it was good to return to a straight forward long study.
 Process below.  If anyone wants I can go into more detail on this. 

Bloodsports Hiatus

Following the Zelda work Dan announced there would be a postponement of Bloodsports 8.  The reason was the drop off in numbers completing.   I was not to surprised this whole study group exploded in the space of 2-3 months it expanded from what was a small steady core group to a mass of participants.  Along with that was an increase in the numbers of activities. All requiring a massive time commitment from Dan who himself was on a mission to cut it as a pro and amazingly  and Dave who's own career seems to be growing.  All done with no monitory compensation. Thanks Dan and Dave. 

Though understandable it is nonetheless a blow. For myself the Deathline Challenge has been a great way of focusing on achieving things and keeping the momentum up.  The challenges were great for me.  I had not put together any imaginative work.  At a minimum it was practice at getting a work flow sorted. At its best it pushed me to finish pieces that if I were working alone would most likely have stalled and languished.  

 I am sure that the group will go on.  for now I am taking a little breather.  Doing some gentler paced personal work.

Swamp ancient

Hunter and Pet

Gauntlet

Crimson Guardians

Miazaki Re-marketed

Hunter and

Creature

Windwaker Reworked

Bloodsports 7 - Windwaker Reworked! Zelda Final Image

Bloodsports 7 - Windwaker Reworked! Zelda Final Image

Bloodsports 7 - Windwaker Reworked! Zelda Final Image

With the extra time I went on refining the image as much as possible.  The images that made it on to Kotaku are here. 

Zelda Redesign -Image 2

Zelda Redesign -First submission

When it got to submission time this was as far as I had got.  Still lots and lots left to do but this was where I was at and though not thrilled with it I went ahead and submitted. By that time Dan had announced that the final deadline for submissions which would go to Kotaku was the following Wednesday so still time to work some more.   

Zelda Redesign -image1

Errol 'in like' Flynn

I decided to modify the pose, put the character in water and eventually dropped the boat.  For charcters I kept very close to the depiction of charcters in Windwaker just moved them closer to relaistic.  I probably should have done more design after all that was the brief but with the time constraints and my meagre ablilities I did probably about as much as I could.