Sketch: Geisha

A mechanical pencil sketch of a geisha, based on a figurine.

Elf WIP2

I found a little time today and refined the figure a bit. I also added some more space over her head as I felt the image was looking cramped. Added some designs to the face and arm to give the figure a "tribal" affiliation. Worked on the hair, but may change it to look more "primal."

Elf WIP

A work in progress otherwise known as "Will you please finish a painting!!!" LOL

Watersprite

Just something that I had bouncing around in my head for a while.

Geisha

Another oldie. This was painted in 2005. I wanted to do a portrait of a Geisha , but modernizer her a bit. I gave her a western suit and tie, decorated with a flower pattern that was similar to what you'd find on a traditional kimono. I gave her a two-toned shirt to echo the traditional layers that I'd seen in Geisha photos.

All in all, I remember it being a fun painting to do.

The Little Wizard

This is an old favorite of mine. It was done in 2002. Looking at it, I can tell that I was still groping around, trying to figure out the whole painting thing. Still, there was something about it that I always liked. Maybe its the simple colors, the beginnings of character design or the use of cheesy effects and the image hose. Whatever it is, I still smile when I come across it.

Quick Finds: Oscar Cobblepot AKA "The Penguin" Sculpture

I came across a fantastic sculpture of Batman's enemy, the Penguin. Take a look, you'll be glad that you did!

Kane inspired Penguin - clay study - ConceptArt.org Forums

Best Title for a Digital Painting Tutorial

This has to be the best title that I've seen for a tutorial in a long time: "How to Color An Ass: Neolucky Style!"

Just so you know; she's not talking about donkeys! Its actually a pretty good coloring tutorial, done in a tongue in cheek style. It inspired me to grab an old figure study that I'd done and slap some color on that...Ahem...I mean, apply some paint to the figure (LOL!). I thought that it came out pretty good for a ten minute paint job.

International Talk Like A Pirate Day

Avast, ye swabs! Today, September 19, be International Talk Like A Pirate Day! Here be a quick sketch in honor of the day!

Here be tales about the day, matey!

Stylized Face

Another sketch that worked its way into becoming painted.

Quick Finds: Snake Painting

Julie P., an artist who posts on Wetcanvas!, posted a fantastically realistic digital painting of a snake. Its a really great example of photorealism. She was also kind enough to post some progress pix with it.

I think it's definitely worth a look see!

Wine Bottle and Glass

I remembered a still life that I had done using the variant from the last post. I should probably find projects to use this brush on more often.

The Monster of Mary Shelley

Another drawing for the Weird Science Drawing Jam. This is the Boris Karloff version of the Frankenstein Monster. It was drawn with a custom variant of Corel Painter's barbwire pen.

If you look closely, you can see that I used another custom variant of the tool here.

That's one of the features that I really like about Painter, the versatility of it's brushes.

Island Girl Sketch

Just a sketch for an Island Girl concept. It may get developed into a painting at some point.

Head Sketch

Doing a little sketching, fooling around with the blending tools. Basically, I was trying to use the blenders to define and shape the facial structure, the tendons and collar bones.

Art Challenge, Weird Science

This work was created for the " Weird Science" jam over at The Drawing Board.

Description:
This month's Jam is dedicated to scientists, their experiments and the results.

I went with one of my favorite mad scientists, Simon Bar Sinister.

Vignette

Having a little fun slapping on color, practicing brushwork, just to see how things would come out.

More Ogres

Creating yesterday's ogre got me to thinking about a couple that I had created earlier. The one with the ogre emerging from a cave was painted two years ago. The lighting was inspired by a John Singer Sargent figure study. I really liked the interplay of the light and shadow in his drawing. I tried to get the same flavor here. I hate the club. It looks like he's carrying a big turkey drumstick! I resisted the urge to "fix" it. Its good to look back on older pieces. They show you how far you've come and how much farther you need to go.

The second one was also started in 2006, but was never finished. This was of an ogre hoisting a few at the local pub. I was working in Photoshop on this one. The other was created in Painter.

An Ogre Emerges

This was one of those pieces that came about almost randomly. A few days ago, I'd been fooling around with few custom brushes, just to see what kinds of patterns/textures would emerge. I liked the result and saved it for future reference.

Today, I got the idea to do an extreme close-up. I'd decided on a fantasy character, an ogre. I wanted to keep it cartoon-y, but with a fully rendered look. I remembered the texture that I'd created earlier and thought that I could use it as the basis of the ogre's skin texture.

I opened the file, added a layer, sketched a face and painted in the features.

I guess that my "lesson learned" from this would be to save more of my experiments. You never know when they'll come in handy.

1st Forays into Digital Painting

Some of my earliest attempts at digital painting. I believe that these were done in the mid 90's, on Windows 3.1 using MS Paint with a mouse. They were all copies of other artists' work, but they helped to start me down the road to creating original works and developing my own style.