Radioactive Studies

This has definetly been the most productive week ever. I can't loose the rythm now, which is preety hard but I'll make an effort.

Still life studies:

Anatomy and poses studies:

 

Creature studies (I try but... ;__;... me no good with creatures)

Environment studies (from my own photos. The last one is made up):

 

 

Now this is an illustration about the situation in Turkey. I'll show you the process:

Made thumbnails to get the idea and chose one:

  

Build the perspective lines and proportions:

 Focal point and basic values:

Final (yes the ground could be better rendered XD)

Another piece for the Mirror Project. this time I decided to experiment with full paint. The result was... interesting, but not sure if I want to trade it for usual black and white, have to think about it.

process:

 Radioactive

And finally, another painting I'm working on:

 

And that's all for this week, I hope to be able to do more in the next one. Cheers! ;)

 

Studies 2

I slowed down a bit this week, wasn't really feeling good enough to be able to do something decent, but today I got my energy back so here I am.

Also something that helped me a lot was Chris Oatley and Lora Innes talk about "the Five Lies of Creative Block". I never thought of the possibility of working without inspiration, but in order to keep improving that's what you have to do, you can't just wait for it, you've got to go out and keep working until it comes. you can check the link HERE it's really worth it to listen, believe me, it was for me.


Here's what I've done this week (at least it was something):

5 min phone sketckes:

No reference 5 min poses:

 No reference 10 min poses:

Random girl, I guess...

Tonal study of Dan Bejar's portrait (again(

Waht?

And that's all, hope I can show you more next week! ;)

Mirror World/ The King and others

Hello my fellow creative hearts!
Today I have a lot to update. As I said I will be only doing weekly updates now, so I don't waste so much time in the show off and spend more time actually drawing.

I'm trying to fill one of these pages everyday to study poses, a bit of anatomy and values, it's hard but I'm trying, they took around 10-15 min. each pose:

So I've finished two more pieces from the Mirror world, and here they are:

Found (The Room)

 

 

Red Mosquito

 And I began doing this one too:

Yesterday I also finally finished The King. I'll put the description from deviantArt:

What began to be a hardcore perspective study turned out into this. As Andrew Loomis says, perspective is something really troublesome to learn but if you can get through all the boring stuff, it can be very rewarding to your work.

This is a scene in which we see the Demon King again [link] before he had gone completely to the dark side and got the holy blood spear to conquer the world (what? he's going to conquer the world with his penis? oh wow).
All the women there are candidates to become part of the ritual in which he is going to choose two of them to become part of him (what... a... PIMP!).
The six women in dresses are merely servants. The top four are still young virgins needed for the ritual. The two in the foreground are sisters and the one in the right has cast a freezing spell on the other, so that she doesn't interfere in the execution of the guy (which is her secret lover (ooh poor thing)).
The big guy in the front..... well he's just a big guy in the front (having fun with the execution probably, *grabs some beer*).

And that's it, I'm trying to improve my storytelling skills, instead of only making random paintings.
I am actually proud of this one because I used no textures, and no references.

 So here it is. You can click to open a new tab to see it bigger (with the WIP as promised):

Started with a thumbnail to get the general idea - mood, composition, lights, etc...

applied the perspective and the focal points (oh perspective almost killed me but I have to thank Andrew Loomis Sucessful Drawing book- available online)

drew all the charachters to get the correct anatomy and the different values

added the stong shades, shadows, highlights and DRAMA - Render complete:

And here are the details:

Comicon is almost coming, it's gonna be this FRIDAY, FRIDAY, gotta get down on FRIDAY and WE SO EXCITED! XD
By the way, last week I watched the Rurouni Kenshin live action movie and actually loved it, it was so like the animation (can't say the same about Dragon Ball XD...)

Thanks for the photo Leonor, just added a bit of magic et voilá XD:

My Best Regards,
Darsy Fernandes