Pizza dawg

Just a quick sketch of me as animal crossing villager.

Roman Gladiator

Thorn Throne: Character Sketch

Ithaca Chronicles: Elpenor

Ithaca Chronicles: Argos

Ithaca Chronicles: Eurylochuseolus

Ithaca Chronicles: Penelope

Ithaca Chronicles: Odysseus Fix Up

Received a super in depth feedback on the character, mostly on the silhouette and design!

Ithaca Chronicles: Odysseus

Knight Design C

I need more time in one day!

Knight Design B

Something quick since its a super busy week!

I started with sketching on pencil and cleaned it digitally :)

Knight Design A

I havent been designing anything recently and I really miss doing it so I thought I will do some side personal project. :D

Robot Design Silhouette 2

Changing direction for the painting~

Robot Design Silhouette

Prepping for next painting~

Dragon's parade

Dragon's parade!

I was imagining a world where dragon exists. What kind of world will that be? One thing for sure, we will "humanely" exploit them for our entertainment! Most probably we might be using them as a sport and of course gambling!

Yet I didnt want to show them in a negative light so I chose a more festive feel. (Since my birthday just past and I am feeling really happy!) So I thought what if they have a parade after they won the race? Just like when you played chocobo racing or mario kart the winner will go around the laps, with the victory song blaring out!

This first idea came from sketch ideation sessions that I had as a break after work.
It was a truly fruitful sessions as I had a couple of ideas that I really liked and enjoyed from the sketches. I might take some of them and flesh them out more in the future.

Its really rough but if you are interested I have placed it below.

After the sketch ideation, I refined the sketch and the color blocked the sketch. After that I slowly refined it to what you see above. :)

I kinda used up all my time between the painting and hanging out w fams, instead of the dailies.. now I have to try to repay the debt!! (Manage to catch up w my dailies!)

Dragoon Sketch

Inspired by Dragoons Cavalry costumes.
This was done on span of 3 days (2-3 hours session each) everyday before work.

I am going back to fundamental and gonna do more sketches for the upcoming few weeks.
I realize I am really envious of people who can draw really well and I am gonna strive to up my drawing skills!

Do let me know which design do you like out of these three!

Automata Street

Another even tighter shot of the townscape. Taking the chance to experiment with color and value grouping to try to push the story telling component of the image.

This time around I tried to take the story and try to take more liberty in showing it visually. I wanted to show the lady on the foreground to have a hesitant personality and perhaps often fearful of things, thus I put her in the dark. She is being pulled into the light by the samurai guy as if lighting up her life.Also tried to reflect that feeling of hope into the landscape itself (ray of light on the sky) I also wanted the surrounding to be cooler in temperature in comparison to the character hand, as if the body heat radiating the image.

I ended up removing the smoke effects since I thought it distract the viewer from the ray of light, also contradicting the feeling of burst of hope.

I have also been kinda worried that my color could be getting more and more saturated yet in a not so good direction so I tried to study from Krenz Cushart's work since a his work uses lots of gray yet feels so vibrant!

This time around I was more careful on where I used the saturated color but I tried to be less controlled when it comes to the edges and details since I felt the last two paintings was so controlled that it felt rigid and less lively.

I really hope to one day able to be as painterly as Craig Mullins!

Quick Sketch: Eagle Warrior

Trying to regurgitate my anatomy learning while training to draw faster. Done in one and half hour. My target is to be able to do this in one hour by end of this month and eventually in half hour!

Wyvern Fortress

Experimenting on my pipelines, trying to do things faster by keeping it rough..

I always struggle with drawing in photoshop so that is definitely something I am trying to work on this year. Also took this chance to refresh my memory in maya.

The new maya has tonnes of new tools but many of the old tools are not in the same tab I remembered them to be at... thank god for google! It took me a while to just to get to the following state.

I have heard friends recommending sketchup saying that its faster to model and easier to pick up.. so that is another thing I am planning to experiment with.

Guardian of Forest (updated)

Hmm only after Im done that I realize the golem head looking up made a weird and awkward composition... maybe the lighting emphasized on that mistake even more...but.. time to move on... !!