a cuttlefish

i actually drew this for drawing day just sadly didnt get it uploaded to the site because i had to dash off to work. ah well better luck next year. i had to pop the pencil on the page becacause the page wouldnt stay down... due to glue that propebly shouldnt be there -_-

and another face. had fun with the shadows for this one :) though they are some mistakes. will keep practicing.

thanks for reading :)

charchoal drawing

i started this yesterday so it proberbly doesnt count as a drawing for drawing day :/ hopefully i'll get another one drawn later today :)

more sketches

i'm trying to update more of my sketchbooks (notice books) so hopefully you will see more stuff over the next few weeks

some wip's and sketches

so much for me finishing what i have already started... ah well.

fun with painter 12 and line work for a painting

i started this over a week ago and messed up so are redoing it. heres the line art. should be fun and i know where i'm going know and not to use that colour for the leaves.

will update soon with more work on it.

also i have been playing around in painter 12 especially the kalidiscope feature just for fun :D. i'm still getting used to the brushes and what but hopefully when i'm more familiar with it i will create some actual art :) some are worse then other however enjoy :D

scrapped it

i finished this a while ago... well i'm calling it finished. to many mistakes to want to keep going with it. its one of those pics where i'm actually thinking of redrawing it compleatly and fixing it. we shall see. anyway heres where i got up to before i scrapped it

on other news my comic is going fairly well. once i've got these 6 pages done i will have the first chapter fully planned and ready to go.

i'm also about to start a watercolour painting. just finishing the sketch off and i'm ready to go :)

a sneak peek

so i'm working on a dragon age fancomic for well fun and practice. i'm planning on using it as a tool to get better at art as it will force me to draw things i havent yet and work on my expressions and angles. anyway heres some of the roughs pages 1 to 4 then pages 17 - 24 some may change but this is what they look like so far :) please excuse my hand writing.

anyway enjoy

faces

some face studies. going to colour these with present colour palettes consisting of 5 colours

and because someone didn't like the speech bubbles on another site i'm uploading this with no speech bubbles. i need to figure out a better way of doing them :/

learning light and shadow

you might have noticed that i've kinda been working in black and white or with a coloured texture over black and white recently. this is part of my plan to get better at light and shadows. so here are some studies of how light effect spherical objects. the first one is defiantly wrong. oh and just so you know no refs used. all done from saying oh the light source is here so it would look like this.

i also bought a tutorial video from gnomon workshop that is about the tonal female portrait to help me improve there. its been quite an enjoyable watch so far... though he needs to touch on the basics before diving right in. so you will hopefully see some portrait studies from me in the future.

digital scribblings

quick face study. i actually have 6 other face studies that are in progress however i'm using them to use limited colour pallets to colour them. will keep you updated. i'm still getting used to drawing in photoshop i am however enjoying it. this is also a rough for one of my comic panels :) though this one will change quite a bit as i want her in shadow so she's not as recognisable here :D this isnt the warden character. i need to build Leliana's face shape more right now its not looking much like her. luckily this is just a plan :D

done as a study. i tried to paint a panel for the comic i'm working on. things are still subject to change. i watched these videos about useing photoshop to create panels and what not and apparently elemts is missing some features there :/ so the panels are not how i would like them to look.

I have been playing around in photoshop and while it will never replace my paints completely I am having a lot of fun right now. photoshop was something that scared me. i felt compleatly lost when trying to use it. i own a copy of elements so its not the best lets leave it at that. tutorials don't match it for example and features are missing. I'm hoping to get CS5. the price for photo shop is always off putting. right now i cant afford it. I'm hoping to raise the funds somehow though. just need to make a plan of action for it :)

still debating of whether to do it digitally or traditionally. i'm actually leaning to a mixture of both. any who time for lunch.

my latest wip

i haven't a title for this one yet. i have been doing a lot of work for my comic recently. mainly paintings and planning for the warden character of the story and the script itself. i'm a little annoyed as i have to rewrite some of the chapters as there on the dead pc... that or buy one of those cases that i can put a hard drive in... that would probably be easier. we shall see. lots of work to do on this still. i hope to get it done buy the end of tomorrow. the background while simple was quite fun started off yellowish and has slowly shifted to greenish. i love working with lots of glazes.

before i finalise her design i'm gonna look into hair. think i could do a better job of hair in general. i liked my barbarin pic's hair quite alot. think i've lost that Art nuvor feeling. also i might actually ink the hair after i've painted it wont be as set then. something to experiment with. probably gonna work on lots of portraits as i need to work on faces and expressions and what not. i think i can do portraits for the next month and if i do them quite small (i'm planning on A6) i hopefully can get more done and improve more because of it. i will get better at drawing faces.

trying something out

yes your eyes are not deceiving you i'm working on a digital painting. i wanted to try using the colour layer mode to paint. and originally i was gonna print it and copy it to watercolour paper that way but kinda got carried away. especially since i seem to be figuring stuff out about photoshop recently. i actually created a brush from a jpeg file today and feeling pretty pleased with myself. i've also figured out how to have 2 windows showing the same picture which is useful. she still needs work. its the warden character for my dragon age fan comic. still figuring stuff out and what not. i actually hope to start work on it soon :)

i actually have several chapters planned out already for it fully as well as bits and piece here and there for further in the story. i want it to look like watercolours. but here's the thing watercolour can be pretty slow. however i actually may have figured out a solution for it. paint the comic in grey scale watercolours and colour it digitally using layers set to colour etc. i need to research this a bit more though.

i'm also thinking of doing a name change from the defult wardens name neria to something else. i'm thinking Elida same flow so it will go with her surname and meaning small winged one which wardens symbol been a groffon and elves been smaller then humans is kinda fitting. not sure yet though.

the barbarian, mushroom glades change in direction

first off my barbarian self portrait is compleated all that is left now is to play around with the colours in photoshop and a little bit of clean up. i'm hoping to get that done soon. i'll update once its done

so i went back to the mushroom glade painting. i'm hoping to see my sister next week if shes free. its good to have a deadline :) anywho i have actually been unhappy with this painting for a while. i think some of the changes i have made have improved it, the depth is better at the background foliage, and i still need to fix that depth in places

i'm not happy with the grass under the faeries feet so i am trying out this absorbent ground which acts as magical white out to hopefully fix the problem. we shall see. hopefully i will have an update for it soon :)

self portrait with a little bit of fantasy - colouring

some work has been done on this self portrait. hopping all over the place. the skind shadows need deppening in places but i'm gonna get the hair and fur finished next i think before revisiting the skin.

my camera isnt doing the best of jobs capturing the glazes and currently i dont have photoshop to make adjustments as my pc has died and cant use the other pc right now.

a self portrait with a little bit of fantasy

well a lot of fantasy but you get the picture. i spent the day transferring my slightly changed from the last post digital sketch to paper. i noticed my art has improved since i started drawing predominately digitally because of all the little tweaks i can make and how easy it is to do them.

i messed up in the inks a bit :( still geting used to my brush however because is brown in and i'm painting the fur brown (which is where i made my little mess up) it shouldn't be too noticeable. we shall see. if it is well i'll have learned from it.

i'm hopefully gonna start painting it tonight :)

time for an update

i have been working on alot this month. some of which i cant currently talk about as it wouldnt be professional until its published.

but some stuff i can share is here. well some sketches anyway.

this was for a tutorial that i wanted to enter but didnt have time. its of the sword excalibar i'm thinking of moving the sword and adding a graveyard. but i'm thinking of finishing this soon :)

next up we have the beginnings of a self portrait. i wanted to get some crit before i startred painting it. firstly we have the photo i used for refrence. i know it has alot of shadows on it but i want to work on my light and shadow and its perfect for that.

next we have the pure sketch from refrence hopefulkly i've got the likeness.

next up we have made it more of a fantasy portrait using my face as the base for a female barbarian. there has been talk about going the vampire rout but wen i gave the sketch before i went in this direction pointy teeth i couldnt help chuckle or feel very silly. its a good i want to suck your blood pose... i think the hair still needs some work, and some removed from places :) no layers have been removed even those that arnt needed anymore so ignore the scribbly mess.

hope you guys like so far.