Armor study.


Moving on to Forms of the torso (not a lot this week as far as anatomy goes.. Damn Christmas)


Applying that anatomy


Horse gestures, trying to work out how the guy on the horse was wrong. These studies showed that people actually sit much further forward on the horse than I thought they did..


Okay so I think I am finished with this.. There are some things I would like to change, but I think I should just learn from it and move on. The light made everything very saturated, and comparatively the shadows were desaturated but when I focused on them, they were also very saturated.. I think this is because of the range of values and colours in real life is infinitely more than what a screen can produce, and also because of the eye adjusting to lighting conditions.. Needs more practice.


Readjusted the composition, altered the values. I think that helped a lot. And added a cape based on Lyra's suggestion to get something with weight down in the bottom right corner. I knew that I was jumping into details too quickly, but I couldnt see what else to do aside from detailing. Could someone please point out what they would have done differently? I tried to go from big to small?


Website Update. The HTML prototype is almost done, I just have to do skethbook and contact pages. Then I need to convert it to PHP and it should all work. Which means it will probably be up and running by the end of January.

Anyway, so yesterday (the 4th of January) is my drawing anniversary. It marks the day, two years ago, that I decided I wanted to take art as a career. So I started drawing. A lot..
So yeah, probably should have updated my sketchbook yesterday but meh, it wasnt a Sunday. So here is my improvement meme thing.. I know that the last pic was done in september, but I don't really have any personal work I am a fan of since then. Which is a new years resolution, to do more personal work. And more studies.. Should be easy right?



Added more to this page, doing some measurement stuff.


Beans, because I realised one of my biggest weak points is connection the torso with the pelvis. These beans should fix that.. I hope.. Only did these yesterday, so not sure if they have helped yet :P


Various revisions. (Watched some of David Finches Gnomon vids. Really cool approach)




Heres what I got up to with Crypt Cat. Then I applied some of War's paint over. Me and Lyra are going to go through and do all the bloodsports from the beginning, which we started on the 2nd :P of January. So I am not sure when I will get the chance to work on this again, but I really do want to finish it.


And applying the paint over. I wanted to keep the head tilted, because its part of the characters mood in my opinion, the creepy off tilt stare. Changing it to straight up makes him look a little too majestic for what I am going for. I also played with the idea of making the moutain much bigger instead of making it smaller. I think I will have to revisit this with fresh eyes lol.


Bloodsport 1: Sci Fi Hunter and pet. This was so far out of my comfort zone. I never ever ever do sci fi, so it will be a challenging two weeks. I spent so much time just beating my head against a wall that I didn't get very far for the last few days.

Mood board


Ref Board (I really needed ideas lol)


After trying with small figures, I failed so much I deleted them, so that was several hours down the drain, I thought maybe if I got the look of the head that the rest would follow.. I can tell you now, that surely wasnt the case.. These have since been scrapped.


Started from a base neutral pose, which worked a little better, then went to line drawings which seemed to work the best for me. So I think I will continue to use this method in the future. It's a little tedious and takes a logn time, but I like it better.