Character King Arthur

King Arthur Character

King Arthur - Japanese

The Crimson Daggers are currently running some mentoring sessions.  I did not apply for any as I was concerned that I would not be able to give sufficient time to the lessons.  There is no problem taking some of the homework from the sessions.  I am having a go at Character development .  It is something I have done very little of.  The series will be characters from the King Arthur myth but the twist is that the characters must be from a different area/culture.  I chose Japanese Heian period.  Not too excited how this one turned out.  Will try a different approach for the second one - Merlin.

Sketches 2

Keeping the sketches going and did this mud photo study to help with a personal piece. 

halloween - house of horror

House of Horror

Did this as a matt painting exercise at Halloween.  I started out with a google maps image and dropped some textures painted then lit.  

Sketches 1

I am trying to get more practice in so have committed some time to just sketching.  These are screenshots from Game of Thrones but I am also going to work on gestures, hands and feet.  So here are the first of many I hope.  

International Self Portrait Day

Self Portrait

International self portrait Day November 1.  Did this self portrait.  There are a whole bunch of them over on  Concept.org.  I was really tired when I did it so I worked a bit more on it this evening. 

Mud Study

Mud Study

My homage to this years Summer.  Actually a photo study for a personal piece I am working on. There will be mud.  I liked the globby look of this mud.  The personal piece its self seems to be going on forever but I am doing a lot of other work as well. 

Autumn Tree Study

Autumn Tree Study

I did this speed study of trees. The photo is of some trees in a Belleek wood which is very close to where I live.  This time of year the landscape changes very rapidly.  I try and grab as many photos as I can this time of year.  

Basilisk lizard study

basilisk lizard study

A study of the basilisk lizard.  This lizard is able to run across water earning it the nickname the Jesus lizard.  I did this as a study to help with my next personal piece.  What I was looking for here was mostly colour information. 

Cuirass Study

Cuirass Study

A study I did of a cuirass mostly for materials.  It was large and I ended up just working the top left corner to any level of finish.  I was going to use this information in the next personal piece I am working on..

Ready to go

Ready To Go

Here is the personal piece I was working on.  I used all the studies and some.  Took quite a while definitely more than 20 hours but I took the time to do the studies.  I also have been trying to get some sketching in each day as well.