12-14-2023, 10:21 AM
Hiya PE and Leo,
I KNOW I've been AWOL from Daggers — hope you both and ALL the Daggers had a great 2023!
Thank you both so much for the kind words — (loving that phrase Quadzilla PE!![[Image: tongue.png]](https://crimsondaggers.com/forum/images/icons/tongue.png)
) and for being accepting of my...err...story telling. ![[Image: thumbsup.png]](https://crimsondaggers.com/forum/images/icons/thumbsup.png)
That client ultimately began to give me the runaround, PE, but he paid for my work up front so I'm not complaining at all about that.
I took a lot of time off from making personal art and uploading here to perform with a band (something I hadn't done in YEARS) — and did a LOT of photography, YouTube/Vimeo thumbnails and PowerPoints for a group over the last year.
That all was VERY time consuming and I just got back in the last 2 months to making personal art and it was like opening the flood-gates of creativity for me!
Thanks again to both of you for commenting!
-----------------------
In no particular order here's some stuff I finished or am working on over the last couple of months since I got back to arting — I call this first one Invasion and it's based off an old sketch I drew.
Here's an early color test of that (I was still working on the character design)
A work in progress ('Liquid Courage')
Was commissioned to do this photo study of a 'kid in a zoot suit' <you can find the original photo with a search using that term) I made the kid a little less chubby and a bit older than the photo
A digital 'sketchy' update of a character I did in my 'real-world' sketchbook a while back.
And a color version I just finished
Liked that concept enough I put him on a bike. I don't do a lot of mechanical stuff so this was a fun challenge I will do more of
I did a sketch AGES ago and just found it and reworked it a bit and added a color test and a quick photo-bash background — definitely a work in progress but the concept makes me smile
And three more character designs painted over old sketches — the first one a rough WIP and the other two quick color versions in similar styles I'll call done
---------------------
That'll do it for today. I spent a lot of the last two days updating my website and feel kinda spent — but as soon as possible I'll look around and comment in my fellow Daggers sketchbooks
Ciao fer now
I KNOW I've been AWOL from Daggers — hope you both and ALL the Daggers had a great 2023!
Thank you both so much for the kind words — (loving that phrase Quadzilla PE!
) and for being accepting of my...err...story telling. That client ultimately began to give me the runaround, PE, but he paid for my work up front so I'm not complaining at all about that.
I took a lot of time off from making personal art and uploading here to perform with a band (something I hadn't done in YEARS) — and did a LOT of photography, YouTube/Vimeo thumbnails and PowerPoints for a group over the last year.
That all was VERY time consuming and I just got back in the last 2 months to making personal art and it was like opening the flood-gates of creativity for me!
Thanks again to both of you for commenting!
-----------------------
In no particular order here's some stuff I finished or am working on over the last couple of months since I got back to arting — I call this first one Invasion and it's based off an old sketch I drew.
Here's an early color test of that (I was still working on the character design)
A work in progress ('Liquid Courage')
Was commissioned to do this photo study of a 'kid in a zoot suit' <you can find the original photo with a search using that term) I made the kid a little less chubby and a bit older than the photo
A digital 'sketchy' update of a character I did in my 'real-world' sketchbook a while back.
And a color version I just finished
Liked that concept enough I put him on a bike. I don't do a lot of mechanical stuff so this was a fun challenge I will do more of
I did a sketch AGES ago and just found it and reworked it a bit and added a color test and a quick photo-bash background — definitely a work in progress but the concept makes me smile
And three more character designs painted over old sketches — the first one a rough WIP and the other two quick color versions in similar styles I'll call done
---------------------
That'll do it for today. I spent a lot of the last two days updating my website and feel kinda spent — but as soon as possible I'll look around and comment in my fellow Daggers sketchbooks
Ciao fer now