Beard Clippings

[Patrick Gaumond]

@ Amaral : Thanks and glad it helped you! It's just a matter of practice and patience, with a side of stepping out of your comfort zone and a dash of theory ;)

Been a few weeks since I updated. Partly because I went to New Hampshire for a few days and also because I just needed a break from the interwebs as much as I could. I no longer go to any sort of school so I now have the whole day to art as much as I can, which usually involves 5-8 hours of actual drawing and the rest of the day is spent taking care of the house, excersing,reading art books, reading intellectual type books so I don't lose my ability to think and studying game design a bit on the side. I've had a much healthier/happier lifestyle balancing all these things rather than going full ham with art for 12 hours a day, which honestly just depresses me very quickly.

But enough talk! Wheres the art you say, well it's right here

Some 15 min landscape studies. Left panel is from photos, right is from imagination/memory. The bottom left is 2 hours, the bottom right ones are from imagination and are 1hr30 and 30 minutes for colour .


A portrait/colour study from photo. The lighting was a bit too soft contrast but I only realized later for some reason. There were a lot of interesting colours though so I ended up focusing on those in the end.


A colour head sketch applying some things from the last study. Trying to be more creative with colours


Still suck at doing heads from imagination though so I did some 20 minutes head studies. The last one is 30 minutes from memory to apply info


Hair/face study


Some more still lives. Still gotta work on that fabric.





My submission for brainstorm challenge 7 "Grand Cheese Valley"


A Sketch I'm currently working on, going to try to take this to a full finish in the coming weeks!


Aaand a character design that I just finished. I worked on this on and off for a few weeks, and lo and behold, another more famous artist than my lowly self just happens to release a tut for a character design with the exact same name only a few days before I finished it. QQ me, but oh well. He could have done more with the idea than he did, in my humble opinion. Not saying mine is better but I like the direction I took the name in for the helmet design. Not sure about all the rest honestly, especially the robotic bits. Might revisit it in the future.


AAnd lastly (almost forgot about this!) Got some great feedback on my penetrator piece from some folks,concerning the rendering of the bottom half and also the blurriness of the knights in the back so I decided to revise it and here's what I came up with. Much happier with the end result!






And as always feedback/comments are always welcome!