Warburton- Thanks man, I appreciate it! The high-key values are a lot of fun to play with, definitely recommended. :)
For pose reference, I'd recommend pixelovely, figuresfordrawing tumblr, and dynamic poses on pinterest. Collectively they've got a ton of good reference material! Also characterdesigns.com has a bunch of free photo sets you can download.
Obsidian - Thanks so much! It was a lot of fun, definitely gonna try to do them more frequently. :)
Soooo, it's been over a week since my last post. I've been absent pretty much cause of comicon, it's been all day every day craziness and a ton of fun- got to meet a lot of great artists in person and saw a lot of cool things and great art!
Here are a couple characters I did as live demos at the TAD booth, they were a lot of fun and I think I actually learned a lot about character design from them. Gonna have to make things like this a more frequent practice. But for now, it's back to work and studies! I'm all pumped up on comicon excitement to make the coming months the best they can be art-wise. :)
The results of today's livestream, a little over two hours. I just watched The Village last night and promptly wanted to paint red capes in creepy woods, and I also wanted to get back in to using Painter after a long hiatus. Hence, this image. =P
Not the greatest painting ever, but I definitely learned some cool things from it.
I can't believe I haven't stumbled upon it before ;_;
Your studies are fantastic, I feel I've learned loads just by scrolling through - especially your studies on form and its rotation in space with that dude.
Looking forward to updates, those sketches up there ^ = amazeballs!!
sketchbook | pg 52
"Not a single thing in this world isn't in the process of becoming something else." I'll be back - it's an odyssey, after all
Everything is just through-the-wall-backflipping-on-fire awesome!
You've already got good technical and artistic skill developed withing you
all I can say is experiment with random stuff, for example pick 5 random brushes and paint a character with them etc... The possibilities are endless.