Update!

Finally finished the vendor!

 And another older quick piece:

Stuff

Speed paint and some sculpting progress

Environment speedie

Also started some sculpey sculpting. Here's a block in and some Photoshop tests for the design.

New works

Been a while. Here's some stuff I've been working on.

Helith

More doodles

I got married (whee!) and moved to Portland, OR. It's so beautiful here, I might have to start painting landscapes soon!

Here's some painterly experiments and a caricature-ish portrait of my husband <3 . All Photoshop CS2.

(Ref by Marcus Ranum)

Alice and the Caterpillar

The Caterpillar and Alice looked at each other for some time in silence: at last the Caterpillar took the hookah out of its mouth, and addressed her in a languid, sleepy voice.

`Who are you?' said the Caterpillar.

And in an ideal world, at this point Alice would defiantly stare back and ask, "Who are YOU?".
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I thought it would be interesting to have Alice get younger instead of merely shrinking :)

Painterly-ness

Studies

A couple of studies. The first one is from life, the rest are from movie screenshots from http://framefilter.blogspot.com

Vampire Alpaca

Here's another quick one for today, about 1h15m . Vampire Alpaca. Don't ask. I think it might not have turned this goofy if I was listening to something else and not CanCan music >.>

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lK0gYi1YEZ8 Can't you just see him dancing to it?

I think this doodle-a-day thing might not have been such a great idea after all, it's bringing up strange stuff from the recesses of my mind.

Still life

Here's a still life for today, from life. About 1 and a half hours, I'm actually surprised at how fast it went. I guess that means I should have paid closer attention to what I was doing, probably a lot of errors there.

Creature Classifieds!

I thought I'd do a series of Creature Classifieds ( CraigsList for creatures )

#3534534
M4W
Dashing Flower Goblin seeks attractive, young female partner for long term relationship. I'd like to find someone quirky, cute, wild and playful.Pixies, fairies, sprites and elves welcome, must not be allergic to pollen. I enjoy long romantic flights, sleeping under the starry sky and collecting mushrooms.

Faces, faces!

My first caricature!! OMGWTFBBQ!!

Well first -intentional- caricature anyway, nevermind that most of my portraits end up looking like caricatures :P

The superawesome Jason Seiler, for the contest on at https://www.schoolism.com/chiutv.php



And some doll portraits of the fun, talented folks over at ConceptArt that I made a while ago but forgot to post.

It's finally finished!

More mastercopies!

Just trying some more master copies , trying to improve brushhandling and texturing. I need to find a way to upload psds, any ideas?

Crop of head and some stages. I'm falling in love with Rembrandt all over again. I usually don't like his women, I prefer how he paints men,armor,drapery and lighting. I loved this image though, I think it's his mother? I saw the image first in a book, that had more yellow tones which I liked much more so I am sticking to that. You can see the orig at http://www.royalcollection.org.uk/eg...t=405000&row=0 . I can't wait to start on the shiny embroidery!

It's FAR from finished but I just wanted to upload something. Please look at the fullsize images.

Girls!

I recently bought ZhangLu and Jason's awesome female portrait tutorial and have been practicing a few heads from my imagination but I realized I need to supplement it with (lots) of studies from ref too.
Click for bigger images.

One from my head(need to go back and rework the mouth..a some point):


and from a ref, the gorgeous Noë from CA.

Whee!

I finally finished some pain-things, wheeeee!

First:

Gar, guardian of the skies of Eithanas.

annddd some closeups! I don't even know why I went this detailed.



Maggots are a zombie's best friend.





And some stuff from life:
Dileep!

And a still life with some random stuff


Closeups!

Drew

I had almost forgotten how incredibly HARD it is to paint from life. Luckily I had a very very patient model :)
Thanks Andrew!
As always, clicky for a larger image.
About 4-5 hours or so.Must..practise..more..argh.

Why so serious?

A quick update on an older painting. Still a WIP, a couple of changes and it will be done! I think this piece needs a little more 'breathing area' compositionally on the right, hmm. Going to work on the top of her head so that space will most likely not be cropped off.

Corny Uni

Quick sketch for another piece.

One undead, one shiny head

Quick creepy zombie woman who seems to remind me of Cameron Diaz


I conducted a digital painting workshop yesterday and I decided to do a creature to show how to paint various material like skin, horns, slimy surfaces etc. It was fun! (and scary!) but I didn't get heckled or anything and the crowd was super nice and surprisingly I was very comfortable painting with 500 pairs of eyeballs on me( God knows I can't paint even if one person is looking usually).
So anyway I only had 2 hours to talk(theory,tips,etc) and for the demo so I got very little done (the color test that I have posted, only worked on the head) but I am happy with the design and I think I'm going to push it as much as I can.Creature design is not my strongest point (drawing sad girl faces is, hahaha) so I'd love any help and advice on the anatomy etc (Davi made a great point about the connection of the forelimb to the body, need to define the shoulderblade/upperarm area)




So once I fix anatomy issues I think I'll repaint the entire thing, I'm quite excited!


Also, here's a quick youtube blending-in-Photoshop video that I quickly made. I'll upload it to vimeo I think, this resolution on youtube makes it hard to see anything!