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.  

Oracle

Oracle

This image came from the same session as the last post - just took things in a different direction.  Just playing with colour here. 

Crane

Crane

Have a lot of stuff right now sitting in a folder in different states of unfinished.  Will have to decide to move on or finish them.  In the mean time this was one of a series of thumbnails photo bashed. I blew it up and tried to push it a bit further.  

Planes

Planes

This is landscape I started way back.  I don't think I have posted it previously.  I was looking through all the unfinished pieces I had and this one was close to finished but got lost in the flurry of character stuff I have been doing recently.  It was a nice change of pace.  

The Muscle

The Muscle

Another character.  Started in greyscale then added colour.  Hope I am getting a bit faster at these.  

After Shishkin- Gathering storm

After Shishkin- Gathering storm

This is a gouache study of a Shishkin landscape.  First attempt using gouache for landscape. The biggest take home on this was not how to use the paint but the design of the composition. To me it seems there was a lot of design going on here - layering multiple darks against lights.  It seems to me unlikely that you would find so many elements so well composed.  The next biggest learn was how important it is to hold onto the lights in gouache - once they are gone they are gone - I lost them in the foreground. 

 

Healer

Healer

Did this alongside working on two other pieces.  Sprung our of sketching did lines and went straight to colour.  Think that skipping value sped things up. 

Dog Portrait

Dog Portrait 

Had time over the holiday season to try some new stuff.  This is a study done in gouache. Started out with pencil drawing.  Did a wash to lay out tones then worked on it far too much. 



Touched it up a bit in Photoshop. I prefer the one above. 

Dog Portrait