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.

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.