Sky Doll

Something I've been working on for the past few days, for the Trinquette Publishing challenge. Now I didn't really know anything about this character, but after seeing the art I've decided to read it, and it's beautiful! The art is so amazing and inspiring, makes me want to work harder :) (and make a comic myself!)

I've actually done 2 versions, with the first one scrapped midway because I felt it wasn't engaging enough ^^;

Yuno

So after watching the excellent Mirai Nikki anime I just had to draw Yuno. She's just such a great character! :D

Sketch:

And another attempt:

Ryuko Again!

Yup so here's another Ryuko! :) Did this for the Trinquette Publishing challenge. I find these a nice way to get myself to practice drawing, and in my favorite subject (girls! 'XD)

 

Sketch:

David & the Goliath

My drawing for The Bible Stories contest, basically the challenge was to take a story from the Bible, and give it a modern interpretation. My take on David facing the Goliath! (with a few changes here and there..^^;)
Wow this one took a while to make. This is not my usual style or my work method, I decided to try something new.. I've changed so many things in the process, you can just watch hehe.

First sketch:

2nd try:

(sort of) Final sketch:

Basic colors:

More detail, composition change:

Detail and another composition change before the final one:

Ryuko, Kill la Kill

So yeah I’m watching Kill la Kill. I don't watch a lot of anime lately, but this show reminds me how much fun it is (well the good ones anyway ^^;)
Lol I think this is the most risque piece I’ve ever done ‘XD

Awesome show :D

Sketch :)

My Little Dragon

Here's something I made for a contest related to "How to Train your Dragon", basically designing a dragon :)
Along the way I got to practice some painting and creature design (which apparently I don't do enough ^^;)

Here's the sketch, as you can see there were some changes:

Another stage of the process, decided I needed to add another color and more depth:

New Style?

Lately I've been feeling hat I've hit some sort of roadblock, something's keeping me from progressing. So I've decided to try and break some self imposed technical limits, and tried some new techniques :)

This one's actually the first one, it actually started from a color test, so to test something I drew a leg (her left btw) and from there suddenly all the rest of the body formed! XD There I knew I was up to something..

Vampirella

My entry for the weekly Trinquette Publishing challenge :)
Trying it out to make myself draw more. To be honest, I'm not sure I'm 100% happy with the result. I feel it's not engaging enough, also seeing the other entries, well, I have a lot more work ahead of me ^^`
On the challenge you get a set of photo poses to choose from and the subject character. Here's what I came up with:

Starting sketch: I did a few attempts, and matching to a given pose is a little challenging :)

When I was finished with the character I wasn't really sure what to do with the background (bah) so I tried some things. She's leaning on something so I had to make it fit.

As you can see I went with something different :)

Abolele Creature Design

Here's a creature design I've suggested for a film in the works. Eventually it wasn't accepted, but oh well..

And a previous attempt:

Princess Leia

So Comikaza, a comic book store over here had a Star Wars drawing contest. As you see, I've decided to give my version of Princess Leia in her cell, before being rescued by Luke & co.

Sketch:

Now before that I had a different Idea, Padme in a moment of silence, but eventually decided to go with leia ^^;

Echidna

A little something for a Saturday Sketch group, themed "Mythology". Good for getting some inspiration nowadays.
Yes, of course I've scoured the Mythology for a cool female creature ;)
Echidna, Mother of all Monsters. She spawned many of the known monsters from Greek Mythology, such as Cerberus and the Hydra.
A little on the sketchy side, I know. Trying a bit more "loose" style.

Sketch:

Recent Stuff

So what have I been doing lately? Working on my next cosplay among the rest, but illustation-wise I was getting to a point where i want to try some new techniques. Basically there are 2 ways that I know of to approach an illustration. one is sketching and when the sketch is tight enough, moving on to inking, and then coloring etc. The other way is roughing out the illustration, and starting to paint right away, (maybe with adding values before that). there are advantages and disadvantages to each. seeing all the wonderful art from people who paint scenes, I want to try that too, so I'm trying the second method. Yes it can be frustrating at times, getting lost and not in my "safe zone".
This all comes from an idea I have that will hopefully take place sometime in the future. I want to create a computer game. For that I want to work on concept art :)

So here's a test I did lately:

And the sketch (not that it's not sketchy as is ^^;)

Here are some more colored sketches along that line: