Alright. Think this worked out about how I expected. Fun technique. Not real useful for sequential pages, but has a lot of potential for covers, commissions and concept work. Here’s the final and the process shots.
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Couldn’t sleep last night around 3:30am, so got up and worked some more on this piece. Tried refining the grayscale portion of the process. Here’s the updated version.
Currently reading Neil Gaiman’s American Gods novel. Lots of great characters in there including one of my favorties of all mythology, Loki. So, today I was looking to play around with some techniques and I remembered I have a Loki & Thor sketch on my HD by Khoi Pham, a friend and past collaborator from Ten Ton Studios. This was more for the working out of a technique than anything, so I may not do Thor in the background. We’ll see.
The final one for Conceptart.org’s Creature of the Week challenge.
More elementals for the Conceptart.org COW callenge. This time Earth and Water.
Inspired by the ConceptArt.org Creature of the Week challenge #250. First up is my brainstorming: Then using those as springboards, I started this Fire Elemental. Tried to use the iconic triangle of fire in tandem with the heat imagery of a furnace. Rendered in warm tones to reinforce those ideas. Still rough, but it’s a start. Based on the Ten Ton Studio sketch challenge prompt using Ben Templesmith’s cool, morbid character, Wormwood: Gentleman Corpse.
Didn’t post yesterdays, so that’s here, too. Today, playing around with some stuff from Daarken’s site, www.enliighten.com. He’s done a few videos talking about proportions and 8 heads, so I built a 4×8 grid brush with a rough figure in it to try some stuff. Tossing it in perspective is pretty easy now, but still very stiff. You can see how I did it with the grid, then roughed it freehand. I think I may be useful in keeping proportions more correct, but it will only be part of the rough process and not final, I think. I still like the energy of freehanding.
Today is the 15th anniversary of my wife and my first date. What a night it was! My son gave me today’s prompt, the letter Q. Used it for the big figures in the middle of the page’s line of motion.
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