pokemans

practice with rendering techniques and line art

penguin dance

penguin sad dance, because why not?

space cowgirl concept

Playing with a few ideas for a space cowgirl

space guns concepts

I want to improve my practice of generating visual ideas; I plan to spend some more time churning out as many ideas in the evenings as I can and process them through tone studies and constructing them in 3d space.

commission

I spent some time on a comission experimenting with the use of gradients in photoshop. I learnt a lot and spent a while researching the forms of these pokemon. I'm especialy happy with the Lycanroc as the fur was particularly challenging and I spent the majority of my time researching and contructing these.

arcanine

I'm practicing quadrapeds for a comission, this is a rough of arcanine. I feel I need to practice more with my contrast of blending and sharp cuts when painting; this is something I'm currently working on improving.

zorua

Practicing some 'mons for a comission, my technical drawing is getting better; I need to not let it hinder my gesture in my drawings. I'm going to try and spend some more time digital painting, improving my techniques and try to create more fluid, yet in form paintings.

lillipup

Next time I want to accentuate key features and experiment with more dynamic and interesting poses to create a more unique and personalised painting.

skitty

tangela

I used a tad bit of construction in this, as a result, it made the process a lot more comfortable.

fur/hair colour studies

 These are some fur/hair colour studies using an colour overlay feature I've self taught with internet resources. I find the less immediate contrast in saturation seems to prove the most effective for a "natural" look. However I need to practice my organisation skills when drawing, as my process seemed too chaotic and as a result, difficult to replicate without some immediate frustration.

This was an attempt at a more organised render of fur, although I found I had spaced my layers out too far producing a less organic impression.

lifedrawing 15/11/19

Since completing Inktober this year, I've been spending my time working on my construction skills and continued with my weekly lifedrawing classes. This is an oil painting from a 2 hour long pose that I had the opportunity to paint in the monthly all day life drawing class. I haven't and won't be uploading much to my blog for a while as the majority of my work will be drawing exercises in my book and life drawing practice. This being said, I will try to keep some digital work flowing in and out of my blog.

31: ripe

 I've finished a full month of inktober, a drawing every day! Overall it felt rushed and I learnt more about what I need to learn, rather than techniques. I think this was because I found myself wound up between this, work, life drawing, beavers, and my own personal development. I'm very glad I finished, and even more so that I can get back to working on improving my construction and other techniques!

30: catch

29: injured

I'm not doing so hot, I need to refine my mark making technique, as I'm getting really sloppy...

28: ride

I'm finding my construction is definitely lacking even with simple shapes, but this is a skill that I'm going to continue pursuing avidly after Inktober through drawabox.

27: coat

26: dark

I've had a long day and wanted to try something simple and fun; played a bit with sausage forms and making silhouette's clearer.

25: tasty

24: dizzy

23: ancient

I really liked this exercise and I'm definitely going to revisit the pharaoh-mummy vibe!

22: ghost

This was painstakingly difficult to come up with a concept for; I think this was a result of lack of sleep, I've been frustrated all day and being creative has proven rather difficult.

21: treasure

I need to be starting earlier on concept development to give me more time to pay attention to colour and overpainting.

20: tread

I struggled with proportions and construction, as this was the first time I've drawn a gnome. This is something I want to push myself to improve upon, rather than developing barbie head syndrome. She still looks rather flat; I need to practice and explore new body types, as well as my construction skills.

19: sling

I'm starting to get a lot more comfortable with silhouette. Spent some time inthe evening painting tiny mdf pumpkinds with my mum!

18: misfit

Tried solely using the solid round brush, worked out a lot cleaner.

17: ornament

I took a bit of creative license here to lean towards ornate. I want to work at achieving a better result for rendering metal; something I will practice.

16: wild

If I had more time I would play with designs a bit more as I feel like this tree is particularly lacking in subtlety. I feel like this would also benefit from some more time spent on overpainting, such as texture for the grains in the wood. I love the idea of wooden skull-like faces and want to explore this concept more in some future pieces (maybe totems!).

15: legend

I feel like this one was a bit too plain of a design. and the overpaint is pretty crummy as my foundation was poor. I'd love to explore some more mermaid designs in mermay!

14: overgrown

13: ash

12: dragon

Today I experimented with unusual colour schemes and the gaussian blur tool to portray an industrial haze with a light pollution effect over a gargoyle-like dragon.

11: snow

I spent today looking at appealing compositions and lighting of cabins in snowy woods. I learnt a lot, but ultimately went with something more simple!

10: pattern

I spent most of today looking at aztec and related patterns, which was a really interesting subject to research; I had a lot of fun! I learnt a lot about design of mandalas and using negative space to enhance appeal.

9: swing

As I didn't have much time tonight I applied some simple cast shadow to render form. This didn't take nearly as long as full overpainting and was an interesting exercise.

8: frail

I'm finding when I struggle with initial design my final paintings suffers, as I lack time to give it attention. I have also been spending more time thinking about design rather than construction, which results in my painting feeling flat and lifeless. I found this exercise a little more difficult than it should have been; I still need more practice with construction, proportions and planes of the face.

7: enchanted

6: husky

Quick one today!

5: build-ing bonds

This exercise was a bit of a wake-up call on drawing hands in a more believable way.

4: freeze

I spent the majority of today researching and conceptualising different renditions of an ice golem. I also spent a little while experimenting in Photoshop with painting techniques. I've learnt a great deal and had a lot of fun. It's nearly midnight, yet I wish I had more time to clean up and polish my painting.

3: bait