WIP">Sweet Spring — animated WIP

  So in between speed­paints I like to remind myself that I can draw from imag­i­na­tion. And try to. ani­mated gif show­ing the var­i­ous lay­ers of the cur­rent paint­ing I’m work­ing on. I’m still sort­ing out the hair and hands for this value test. Most of this is done with­out ref­er­ence, or very loosely to reference. …

painting studies

To tide you over until the next instal­ment of life draw­ing, here are two other paint­ing stud­ies I’ve been work­ing on: a not ref­er­enced (and clearly so!) quick paint­ing study that turned into some­thing that demanded a fair bit of time and atten­tion. a quick paint­ing study 2011 08 07 Quick paint­ing study, eye­balled tones and shapes …

monday night lifedrawing 2011 08 01 + a wip

Late posts for the lat­est Mon­day night life draw­ing! Mostly because I wasn’t very happy with what I did this time. The first draw­ing took roughly forty min­utes. Thirty min­utes into this we realised we’d for­got­ten to turn on a strong light source, so my shad­ing looks like a mixed of the strong shad­ows and the …

WIP (drama and lies!)">new WIP (drama and lies!)

I’ve been doing some paint­ing and sketch­ing recently, a lot of it I don’t want to post just yet. But I’d still like to upload more con­tent here, so here’s a WIP paint­ing that evolved from a sketch that came from another idea com­pletely. I think she needs more story, more con­text, more depth here. …

SWEET issue 3 — promo">SWEET issue 3 — promo

Sweet 3 — the first issue is ready to go! I may make some more edits, but tonight it’s time to put the sty­lus down and step back for a little while.

Preview for Sweet #3

…and Smash is on soon! Eep! In other news, Syd­nova was great — thanks to every­one who stopped by the Thingy table! It was won­der­ful see­ing you all, and heaps excit­ing to see iss 3 of TTTSNB finally out!

Painted firebunny

While I wait for my cam­era to charge so I can post this week’s Mon­day Night Life Draw­ing, have a pre­view of my cur­rent assign­ment: the Fire­bunny, now tex­tured. Eyes have also been tex­tured, but not included in this shot. The model was unwrapped and tex­tured entirely in 3d coat. There are prob­a­bly some things I …

WIP">Firebunny: 3d Model WIP

Our cur­rent assign­ment at school is mod­el­ling a hi-poly non-human char­ac­ter. It was a fun chance to revisit a design from ear­lier this year/occasionally dreamed up pre­vi­ously: I had a much bet­ter under­stand­ing of the fire­bunny and it seemed much more suited for an ani­ma­tion assign­ment than the much more stoic wood­bunny. I still intend …

Sweet 3 — preview

WIP — after hours">WIP — after hours

I will com­plete this one, even if the back­ground dri­ves me mad. The orig­i­nal back­ground didn’t work, but I want to keep this pic­ture full of brighter colours. I need to work a lot more on paint­ing. I like paint­ing a lot, but I haven’t seen so much of it recently, and now we have …