ink doodle

an ink doodle i did when sick

Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III

okay so the watercolours are done for this, unless i get some crit :)

originally i was gonna put some Knottwork in the background. i however changed my mind and are now planning of doing a mount for it with knot work on it and some pictures. like the mounts stephannie pui mun law does. my good friend phonicorn suggested i sghould mount my work and since this isnt the biggest piece i've done i figured i might has well get some practice. i have cut my windows out for the picture and realised that i need to get one of those slighnted mount cutters for the future. especially since i plan on mounting all mu origanals when i eventually sell them.

anywho i plan on dong something simular but not quite this on the mount for my Hiccup piece. lets see if it works :)

hiccup - hair in progress

more progress on my hiccup picture. it doesnt look like i've done much however his hair is taking alot of work. and is still not finished. it needs dulling in places and brown pushed in to the red along with some more shadows but its beginning to get there. i've also washed a mixture of sap green, cerulean blue and paynes grey over his clothes to knock the brightness back of the bright green. its still we so its reflective in places.

hiccup - skin and hair started

so skin and hair are beginning to take shape now. masking fluid has been removed and the base eye colour added... there errr very bright right now, they will be darker green eventually. this pen actually withstands masking fluid very well my technical drawing pens lift way to easy.

his hair is in the bases right now, raw umber, burnt umber and a few mixtures will be used to knock out the red as hiccup has more brownish hair with a redish ting then red hair. skin still needs fixing in places but hair and background will be finished first before i revisit it due to skin been easyer to do last for me... well the base comes early on but finishing the skin happens late on in the painting. have yet to knock the bright green out his top.

hiccup wip - shadows on the skin

more update on this. i think the green needs dulling... pale blue grey wash is proberbly the solution andthe fur still needs some shadows and what not put in place and dragging out into the background colour when i put that in. sjkin has shadows planned. need to darken the shadows in places think i'm gonna put in some dioxazine violet into the purple bits along side some more ultramarine violet and maybe mix some brown into some purple for the really dark shadows. unsure yet, its a work in progress. anywho the shadows are at least planned so nto the skin :)

hiccup wip - painting the fur

i havent actually painted fur before so this is proving an intresting challenge :) i decided to do his coat first as i'm more likely to screw it up and the earlyer it is in the painting the less likely i am to mind starting again. usually i'd start with the skin.

hiccup - brush pen practice

so i showed you the sketch the other day. how heres the inks. this is actually my second attempt at this the first one was all smudgy. theres a couple of smudges here but its much better then before (still figuring out how long the ink needs to dry for)

donno why it looks fuzzy here the scan i did looks fine, proberbly the size of the pic ere. anywho enjoy

ink scribbles

some free hand ink drawings. i'm trying to get used to this brush pen i own. most arnt brilliant but its a start.

another sketch

a sketch in progress. some changes do need to be made in this. gonna use this one to practice inking again. done from a screen shot of how to train your dragon.