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Midnight philosopher

Here is a quick midnight study. I don't know why he's smirking.

Dragon's blood

Sketched during another viewing of the final episode of Game of Thrones.

Pen sketches

I'm going to try and post more of these, as they are more frequent and better than no blog activity.

Sketches

Sketches from last week, one of the busiest weeks of my life.

Just getting back in to painting, after a loooong break. I know these aren't very inspiring, but they were a lot of fun to mess around with. The guy on the right started as a russian boxer, but ended as a russian... space marine... My idea of Russian people seems to be that they're all very tough and too blonde. Damn you Rocky 4!

Alien Gorilla thing WIP

Always label it alien if it doesn't look like the real thing.

This started as a quick sketch at 10pm, and now it's 1.34am... Quick my ass. I will finish this one eventually though.

Pancho

He's standing there - all rigid - yet there is also energy. I think it's his lovely costume. Michael Hampton's book on Design and Invention excellently explains how to create flow by only using C,S and I shaped lines. It works, I think.

This is sort of inspired from an event I attended to last night. This is the kind of crap I would pull if I was one of the contenders (who'd really want this as a tattoo though?). Maybe next year.

Spiderman

Not the one you think.

"A very majestic horse."

That was the brief that I set myself. To be fair, even a small sentence really sets an invaluable direction - not saying I've succeeded at meeting the claimed description, but I'm quite satisfied with the current progress.

This was an exercise I decided to take on after talking with my friend Stef, whom I abuse as a free source of tutorials for pretty much any subject you can think of.

The workflow he suggested was:

- Get a rough outline of your design.
- Put some gradient there; get your values down.
- And finally, get down to details ("It's when the real fun begins!")

And it sort of worked, I think. Although I didn't use any separate layers (ah ha! boasting?), the simplification of the work flow (i.e. just a few steps), and a bit of commitment to each step really makes you think before you start on the next stage.

Tonight's lesson? Don't get ahead of yourself, son! I will continue on this painting as I dared to start with a huge canvas - there is lots of room for more. Perhaps I will print it out and sell it somewhere like... oh.

Not very aerodynamic

I'm gonna try to write a bit more here. This one's inspired from all the aeroplane action I had in the last week.

Using a photo reference for the landscape as a start was probably the best thing I did since learning how to use computers. Do you like the heat ripples? I made them for you.