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December 12, 2008 at 11:57 pm | In Finished Drawings, Rough Work | Leave a Comment
Tags: animal, cute, digital, elephant, paint, quick

You don't want to know what suprised him...

Last week I was challenging myself to do something “cute”, it’s tougher than I thought, but I think I got a lot closer to the mark with this one.

I didn’t spend too much time on this, I try to keep some of these projects loose and focus on learning. I tried a lot of approaches using simple geometric shapes:

A Rectangle Elephant
An all round elephant
etc.

In the end I went with something which is more my style, it felt good. I experimented with different ways of painting this, I like how it turned out. I didn’t want to spend too much time on it, so I focused on simple low and highlights to bring out some shape. Also I did a real quick greenery background.

I think I’ll try my hand at some more animals, see how it goes. I had a lot of fun with this one.

More Martian Colouring

December 2, 2008 at 11:52 pm | In Rough Work | 1 Comment
Tags: digital, finish, martian, paint

Quack

Took another crack at colouring the martian head tonight, took me a little over an hour and a half. About 45 minutes in I ditched the body cause the hands were bothering but I wanted to be finished with it.

Up to that point I was enjoying what I’d done with the head so I spent some more time on it and decided to cut and run.

I am pretty happy with how it turned out, I rushed a few things, I was hoping to have a more brainy look, but I need to keep moving onto new projects to I try my hands at lots of stuff.

I have a few characters in mind for my next illustration, I think the next one I won’t try and colour and will stick to an ‘inked’ version.

Should’ve started with the robot…

December 1, 2008 at 11:24 pm | In Rough Work | 2 Comments
Tags: digital, martian, paint, rough, wip

Mars Attacks Martian WIP

Got to work on this around 10, I tidied up the sketch and started painting it. I was trying to do a better job at it, but painting is still something fairly new to me so there’s alot of wasted time in picking colors etc.

I started out laying down some light tones and trying to build up sections, but I got distracted and moved onto other parts. I started laying down detail far too early.

I like where it’s headed, but I need to take a step back and take another crack at it. I need to try and be more pragmatic about it, while at the sime time exploring the colors and lines. I could probably finish is real quickly if I just gave it black outline, but I was challenging myself not to do that.

Any way, enjoy the WIP (work in progress) for now, I’ll post the finished one later in the week.

Update: I lost sleep over this damn thing last night. However I came to 2 conclusions.

I’m not yet good enough to be trying this type of painting, I need to get better with drawing first. So I think I may finish this with black outlines.
Layers, Layers, Layers. I was doing all of this on one layer, which is stupid. I could have layered each of the parts (eyes, face, suit, gun, helmet etc.)