Thursday, February 26, 2015

Work in Progress

Something I've been working on. I'm going with a very detailed underpainting and hope to be able to use a light touch on the colors.


Wednesday, February 25, 2015

Another Critter

Another creature for the same project. The client isn't particular about consistency, so I took a much looser style for this one, which is more natural for me.


Wednesday, February 18, 2015

Creature Series

Here's a series of creatures I was commissioned to do recently. The client wanted some quick black & white sketches for a project he's working on. A lot of fun to do these! I am pretty pleased in particular with how the two winged creatures came out.






Thursday, February 12, 2015

Sketches

Some recent sketchbook doodles.

Orc dude

Pirate feller

Were-something

Thugra Khotan


Saturday, February 7, 2015

Red Sonja Process

Here's some "process" breakdown for a piece I recently finished. It's the unlikely tale of how a random doodle gets inadvertently turned into a full-fledged picture, courtesy of a complete lack of foresight.

First, the finished image:

Finalized image.

It started from this little Photoshop doodle.

Fore!

 After looking at it, I thought she looked like she was golfing, so I changed it to give her a more active pose.
Pose, take two.
Two months later, I threw down some basic colors.

Oh, garish colors!
But after ignoring this upstart doodle for two months, I decided the pose was still not quite right. She looked like she was resting, and I decided I wanted her to be chopping down with the blade. Perhaps through the neck of a humongous snake?

Color block in.
 Next came some more work on the arms and an attempt to bring some of those initial colors under control.
Taming the color a bit.
After another 2 month hiatus, more color tweaking, in an effort to warm up her skin and get some color into the snake.

Warmer skin and more color? What the hell?
 Then I decided the colors were too bright. Again.

Normalizing the colors.
 Then I left the piece for another 9 months, distracted by other projects. When I came back to it, I made some big changes. I added more details to the armor and hair, added the gloves, changed the motion of her bikini bottom, etc.

Details and edits.
After a couple of months more, I came back to it and finished it up to its final state, as seen above. I used a lot of color overlays to bring consistency into the palette, and added details to the snake.

Thursday, February 5, 2015

Goblins!

I love drawing goblins. It's my default thing to draw when I put pencil to paper.