What am working on: Girl Leaning

Yeah working title hehe.

Yeah this is a new pose practice which turned out pretty good so I decided to ink and color it. Right now I'mm inking it.

So basically, like how I start any sketch, the girl wasn't wearing any clothes and as I was working on this I was imagining her in a summer dress with a hat and sandals. So basically this is a summer piece. I'm not a fan of summer. Hot weather isn't for me, but yeah I'm enjoying this. This is one of the few times I have decided to draw feet with toes and they turned out pretty nice though they probably aren't my best feet but I'm happy with 'em. Oh and I'm sketching more often as a form of practice. So I'd like to sketch a new pose and so on so on.

So yeah I plan on finishing this in a week another thing I want to do often is finish work since I've started using Deviantart more, I'm working on making a presence by being more active and such more details about that later.

So yeah...

The Heads Up 5/9/12

So it's been awhile since I've done one of these but I really want to share my thoughts on a new project that I started working on. Basically what I'm working on is a remake of what I consider and what a lot of people would consider my best art work I have done ever since I started posting artwork to the internet.

This is one of the very few pieces of art work I am proud of and it's a fan art piece. It was finished on October 25th back in 2009 so that was about three years ago. I really consider it one of the mile stone pieces for me because it really brought attention when I had my old deviant art account, that is until I left deviant art.

I decided I wanted to re make the piece to see how far my style has gone and who knows this new rendition of this piece maybe the newest best piece.

There are a lot of old art works that I want to remake and give a lot of old characters a new shine because a lot of my old characters have been neglected sadly and their is one piece that I absolutely need to remake to "redeem" myself from a colossal failure back in Spring 2011.

 This is the continued attempt of L.A. getting the recognition he works so hard to obtain in the art community.

School is nearing the end and so I can probably focus on things like animations and comics during my small break before summer class so yeah.

Cartoon wittle Lanavi!

Decided to spend my drawing night on a little experiment. Draw Lanavi with a overly puffy cartoony style. I honestly enjoy the result. This was really fun to do.

Also these songs made this little picture all the more fun to work on.

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Anyways here it is.

Wittle Lanavi is ready for the snow even though it's like almost summer haha.

She's so adorable <3. So this was a really quick job and I did all in one sitting so it's a bit sloppy but the most important thing about this piece is that I was having a blast doing it. I just want to hug her and pet her. I actually really like this new found style and it probably will replace my old super deform chibi style that I haven't drawn in ages. Anyways this was great fun and practice.

Detective Wednesday Saturn

So I did a concept sketch for my detective character here. I liked the sketch but I also needed visuals for my demonstration speech in my communications class. So I made a video of me working on this since this was a ready to finish sketch.

Wednesday Saturn is my detective character for my story idea called "Jazz on a Wednesday." It's like a film noir kind of story where Wednesday solves crimes in the illustrious but shady city of Safe Haven Metropolis. She partners up with Jazi Quartet an ex criminal hacker who faked her death and changed her identity to Jazi Quartet after a late famous singer of the same name.

So it's like one of those dark gritty dark deco style stories with mafia's and such. I have a very unique world planned up but I want to keep it a secret. Don't want anyone taking my ideas now.

Yeah this was done fairly quickly and it's not the best work I've done mainly because I was really running short on time and had to get it done for my presentation so I pretty much took a weeks worth of work and done it in one day. So excuse the sloppiness.

The heads up 4/21/2012

Yeah my attention kind of changed from my comic and animation project to doing the over haul of Lanavi in the piece "Musical Vibes." It has been awhile since I actually worked on some stand alone imagery so I guess it's fine.

I don't normally like revising already finished art work mainly because at the end of the day it's not a new piece of art. I like to give viewers something new and surprising to experience so this is why I don't refer to this current art project as a simply revision but rather an over haul.

So what have I done to the piece so far. well for one I deleted all the color layers and background layers. I fixed her face and changed where she was looking. Along side fixing where she is looking I also did some polish on her eyes in general. I'm still thinking if I should keep her expression or tweak it but yeah. I'm thinking of adding more lines in her hair to indicate hair strands. Her face is is pretty fine so all I need to do was trim things and such but her body I ended up scrapping it altogether and re drew it.

I'm also working on a character for the animation project I really want to do. So yeah.

It's way too late and I need sleep so yeah.

A Painting of Autumn

Camera's don't do justice for this. Anyways I decided to do a background painting to, well, practice drawing of course. This is an acrylic on Bristol painting. I basically used 7 colors for this which were red, yellow, orange, green, blue, black, and white. Green was mixed with orange to make the browns. I used a pointillist style of painting basically it's optical blending via painting with tiny dots rather than brush strokes. It helps give off that leaf texture as well as blend all the warm color together to make a nice autumn like feel.

Pointillist style makes it really easy to paint natural backgrounds with acrylic. Normally doing these kind of paintings with acrylic is really hard because acrylic doesn't blend so well together as opposed to oils. I'm pretty happy with this especially since I'm very new at doing backgrounds all together.

I was feeling like drawing autumn even though it's Spring. I'd love to walk through a forest in autumn and have all these colors around me.

As far as painting go I love not being restricted like trying to paint within the lines sort of thing. So this one was especially fun to do because I didn't need to be so careful.

Anyways enjoy.

The Heads Up. 4/12/2012 Tired, oh so tired

Late heads up post, but ugh too tired to do drawings. I haven't been sleeping well this whole week and as a result it has been really hard to work on anything really. I've tried to work on Paige Italic's character sheet but I just can't seem to get her the way I want her to look. I guess I have a bit of a art block due to being so tired which sucks because I really want to get the comic started.

Hopefully I can get a good nights sleep this weekend.

I also really need start working on that color contest for Sword Girls.

In other news SkullGirls came out on both PSN and Xbox Live. The game is one amazing fighting game that feels so good. Parasoul is my favorite and I love her walk animation which may sound super odd.

I've also yet again have had this thought about my style. I'm trying to figure out what I'm missing because I just feel that it is, but yeah I think I want to try drawing everyday, doing quick 30 minute sketches daily as well as do some traditional pieces and actually use my Prisma colored pencils.

To tired to think of other things to talk about sorry for now I'm just going to relax, think about the story for Newbie Bounty Hunter and watch some youtube shows.