An in progress of sorts

Last night I started working on a piece, which I got around finishing just today.

Here I'll do a quick 'in progress' just to catalogue for myself how it was done!


First off, this is the first sketch, which was actually done on the bottom right corner of a much larger photoshop doodle page.

Here is around half-way done, and the last time I had saved yesteday night. After a couple of hours' work, however, Photoshop crashed and all the progress I did after this stage was lost. So all was redone (hopefully for the better) on the morrow.

And here is the final result. I think I'm relatively satisfied with it. Perfect? No, but then nothing is. So far however I'm pleased, to say the least.

'Tis a Sketch Update I say.

One digital and one traditional, just to keep things balanced.

I enjoy creating weird characters just for the sake of it.
Wonder what their stories are?

It's a pixel self portrait

I don't regularly do pixel art; the style demands a lot of attention and consumes a LOT of time. But it can be very effective and it's surely a lot of fun to do. I decided to do a new pixel art self portrait/avatar, because, hell, I wanted to change the one I was currently using.

A peek through the way-back machine

There was this challenge going on LJ for artists to draw themselves as teenagers; it was too good not to give a spin, at least in totally sketchy form.



Now back to drawing more regularly so this blog can get restarted with the updates!

Colors! the sketchdump

Today I was messing around with the DS homebrew software, Colors, a bit. Here's the results.

I like the last one best, truth be told.

Sketch Update

I haven't been able to really post updates for the past month, if only because I didn't actually draw much. Shame on me, I know.

Anyway here's I'll throw a couple of sketchbook pages.
This one is actually from some time ago. I like the little Batman there, he's so happy.


This here is from today, a water demon chap or something. He has a totally disregard for humans and their pants.

Art Rage!

Not the actual raging about art (although that should be an actual subject for a blog post) but the program Art Rage, a simple but rather neat piece of painting software. One of its cool features is to have an image pinned on your working space as a reference, something not even Painter or Photoshop do, as well as allowing you to quickly set that reference as a tracing image, if you're ever so inclined to do that.

I decided to test the feature out.



A random photo of a girl was found in one of my many image folders and was hastily sketched over as an excercise of sorts.

Pixel Po-po-portraits

Some time ago I got around to making a couple of pixel portraits for my friends Daniel and Lara, who together form the dynamic duo behind the movie blog A Medium of Images. They're quite quick and fun to make.



That reminds me of an excuse to show something off from history.



I did these last year, all using the nifty little pixel art program Graphics Gale.

Ink'd up Quickie.

Sometimes I like just to quickly draw little sketches and then ink them up. This one here didn't come out too badly, I think.


I then added a quick texture over it in Photoshop just to make it a bit more interesting.

Barbarian Day(s)

I got to sketch and watercolour a couple of drawings involving barbarians (of the Conan variety).

Here's one dude riding on a dinosaur!

This one was loosely inpred by the Frazzetta style images in the February issue of Imagine FX. She's a falconer, since today I actually got to see a real life falcon at a demostration. Beautiful bird.



Here's a photo of the aforementioned bird, which was kind of used for reference. Forgot what's actual species of falcon it is, but it's related to the Peregine and the like.