WIPs tonight

Had my brain set to snooze for half the day, but I was partially effective during the latter part of the day. Here's an early start to yet another WS project.. (!)  ..And a quick little Iron Man MvC3 Repulsor Blast pose study which I'll use for, yep, you guessed it, another WS project.

Cassian - Skeetching Banshee

This drawing had been on the back of mind for nearly half a year whenever I sat down to draw. I'm going to call this finished. It's not the idea I started with and definitely went through a stage of hodgepodginess. I think I could have made the textures of materials more distinguishable, but I've already spent too much time on this. Therefore I'm calling it good enough! 

The end idea I had for the character was a Skeetch Assassin with the silly title "Skeetching Banshee". That's a Skeetch oddly mounted on her pauldron from the yet-to-be-released mmo game, WildStar. She's an evil (or less nice) human, and so that makes her a Cassian. The giant orange blip is a sword, that roundish thing on her wrist is a ??? (but it's on the wrong arm I realized), and so she's a Warrior class. 

Over the times I have tried to work on this since May, I've saved WIP jpgs each, and I've ended with 146 WIP jpgs. : | It's a new record for me. Of course they're not all that different, just stages or different routes I could take. Being so indecisive on this piece was likely what was causing issues for me. I can finish a normal drawing in 1-3 hours when I have an idea or theme. ..I had an idea for this character, but I don't know why I flip-flopped through the process so much. Anyways, it's a victory for me for completing this! :D

Brain melt - Cassian

I am seriously stuck. I decided alternating pieces that I was working on and I pulled out an incomplete from 5 months ago. I don't know what I'm doing with this. I got it cleaned up some and darkened much of it. The face was given me the most trouble. I've re-drawn in many times, and it's always felt off. I cannot presently tell why. Blargh! (edit: added further progress at top).

This is the original drawing idea. It started as a pretty simple pose with practically no armor.

And this is where I left off. It felt too washed out, and so I went in and darkened stuff up and redrew the face. It was too grey. 

Female Granok "Medic" WIP2

I had a little bit of time tonight to work on my Granok piece. I was pretty lost from my earlier sketch, and couldn't really figure out what piece was what, and so I just went for armor asymmetry. I didn't clean the lines up much, just gave them a bit of cleaning and then applied some flat colors. I started with some really odd colors. I started with sky blue, the current orange, lime green and a rosy purple. I've been a little sleep deprived all day... feeling a bit like I'm stuck on a wall. Anyways.. I got the colors a little more in line. I'll see what I can do with this later. I don't care too much about the ugly lines, as I'll probably paint over them.

(the two color choices I've left off with for the Female Granok "Medic" fanart piece) 

Recursion - ..going back to simple

Over the weekend I did a lot of sketching and studied a few different styles that I haven't really tried or followed-thru-with before. It really helped to look at and simplify stages of my drawing process, and consequently since, I haven't gotten stuck as much. The biggest help recently has been the fact that I picked up my sketchbook again and started doing actual non-digital sketches and drawings.

Characters & Sketchy Lines

Hello, I'm just adding some drawings, just to keep myself posting regularly so I have a commitment. With the above drawing I was attempting at drawing an original character, which is something I haven't really done before. The rest are personal projects and some WildStar Cassian fanart WIP. The last image was a clothing study that turned into a "How-to-draw Boobs Wrong"-drawing. :P

If you happen to be reading this, then thanks for stopping by!

Learning about Animation

Let's see... I started learning about animation... :D I've had Flash for 4 years now and I did not know how to use it really. Here's my first animation using Adobe Flash CS4.

Sandbags

Forty individual frames of simple shapes took me about 15-20 minutes. The whole thing is about 95 frames I think. By my estimates, an actual decent animation of the same length would take about 1-2 full work week(s). :o

After I drew a really wonky cartoon face I drew this, so it's one of my first free-hand Flash drawings. This was what I originally first tried to animate.. ahem.. too many lines!