pikachu2

I posed pikachu at an awkward angle and attempted to capture the 3d space as best as I could, with the cost of a little less attention to colour. I might start looking towards establishing a background and setting for painted characters, as this is something I am lacking and might contribute to believability. Overall I'm not too happy with this test piece, but I guess it contributes my personal development.

pikachu

Rough lil' Pikachu paint sketch in PS, that I want to go over when I have some more spare time and fix him up. Playing with the colour scheme on him was a lot of fun!

pikachu tail colour studies

I found drawing Pikachu's tail in perspective quite tricky, so I thought I'd challenge ymself with some difficult angles. I also quite like the hard light highlights in the original paint, and found the secondary sketches and paint fill lacking character with desaturated colours.

psyduck

These are a few poses I was playing with mainly from sprites with Psyduck; I want to push myself to share my work more frequently even if it's working progress, as this is a blog.

meowth

I sketched a fair few meowths in different poses, and quite liked this one, so I added some colour from the Pokémon Red colour pallette. I started with hard light as a preset by accident, but decided I'd see how it would work out.

piloswine

I experimented with some colours and changing the pose from my reference. I also limited the amount of time I spent "perfecting" the lines.

poliwraths and presents

I spent most of my free day today redownloading software so I can use my new PC, which has now arrived! I spent the rest of my time researching the form of ribbons and playing with lighting and tone via Photoshop painting.