Fish Concept Sketches - Color test

Quick color test of two fishes for the Star Kissed painting. 'Nuff said.

Star Kissed WIP

New wip! Using Lockstock's Windy Pack again. She has gorgeous work, do check her out!

To explain the process: I usually get a feel for the character in the sketch, but their personality always shines through when I begin painting. Who is she? Why is she holding out her skirts? For some reason as I was drawing her, the words "star kissed" crept into my working conscious, so I thought I'd apply that to this painting.

Challenges I've put for myself in painting:
- Multiple light sources! I still have to control which light source is most important and make sure they're not all attracting the eye at once.
- Different colored skin! I want to practice drawing skin with colors that are not normally found in the natural spectrum.
- Clouds again! But this time with the moon + glowing guardians and oh my Light source howamIgoingtofigureouthowthisworks
- Her skirts are of a lacy/see-through material (see reference) so this ought to be fun!

I'll probably make the canvas a little wider too to give the sky a little breathing room. The guardians/helpers/fish will have a redesign, just giving them the generic "koi" appearance for now for placement purposes.

I'm doing all of this in SAI... not photoshop! So I won't be using some tricks you digital PS artists are familiar with.

Requiem

Character designed/compiled by Zaku with Soul Calibur 4 on the PS3.

Grecian Elf Process

I love watching progression of pieces, so you'll find lots of such from me. Here's one I'm currently working on, from cleaned up sketch, to ink, to digital color. Sketch done on regular computer paper, inked with inking nibs, and painted in PaintTool SAI.






I'm gonna fix her sleeve more. I get ansty about fixing lineart because frankly it's not my strong suit, and frankly I can get lazy about things. There's tons of tiny mistakes with this, but hopefully it'll get better as I tweak it along.

Sketch dump

So what have I been doing out of college? NOTHING. I've been taking my break from art I felt I had always needed, and it is helping tremendously.

Of course that means the drawings suffer a little too, but it just feels nice to be freer. I've decided to work on my traditional skills a little more, particularly with inking and lineart. I'm not great at either, so I figured I'd benefit from the practice.


Inked with inking nibs, save for the rather light one - that's ballpoint. MASSIVE "woops" on the pant leg there. I cried a little. FROM THE HEART, YO.



Digital ink. Oh, irony.


Sketches during jury duty. Some spiritual stuff + dancing stuff.


Andora, aka "Black Pearl". She's a courtesan. Created while listening to El Tango de Roxanne (Moulin Rouge version). It's a fantastic song. I hope to play with her costume a bit.

working ons

a really bad WIP in photoshop, and 2 characters done in flash.

It's an undead monkey in a thong and.... I was going to have a smoking pigeon but our teacher recommended our characters looked blissful (a la Tex Avery) and I am having a hard time picturing any smoker looking blissful. I'm thinking about turning his hat into an afro and turning his clothes to a jump suit of sorts.

Current WIPS

Some current WIPs. All of these were sketched with red pencil then taken to PaintTool SAI.