ALBERTKANAAL - Process to finish

RETRO - Poster

REJU - Thor

Study - Eye shapes, It's not a 2D plane, dammit.

Somewhat satisfied, I seem to understand what it means that an eye has a socket in which it's located. Good.
ONWARDS SOLDIER!

Study - More Hands!

Just a rather quick 30 minutes of hand gestures to start getting my flow going.

Lessons - Speedpainting

So I asked Maarten if we could do a few speedpaintings. Fair enough, he agreed with my suggestion Thursday and here are my three speedpaintings. Also first time I use the photo-bashing technique. No sweat I thought, well, proved otherwise. Respect for those who mastered the technique.

Speedpaint #1 - Arabian Terrace.  - 40 Minutes

Speedpaint #2 - Alien One-Man-Band - 40 Minutes (Photos allowed, didn't use any)

Speedpaint #3 - Ship + Circus/Funhouse/Fairground - 40 Minutes (No photos allowed on this one)
 

Thanks Maarten, appreciated the lessons, was quite an eye-opener for me!

Retro - Matak & Dakini Shaman

This one is Semi rendered, I am not completely happy with how she turned out, but I need to get stuff done, so here we go.I still want to change her as she DOES need a head-dress resembling her animal, a snake. Now it's just a small itty-witty thing there, yuck.

 

Oh also did a VERY quick color sketch over the Dakini Shaman. Decently happy about her. Will do for now, just need a complete pose eventually.

Studies - Some hand studies

One of my biggest struggles I've been avoiding for a while. HANDS, BRING IT ON.

Meh, all I got was a fuck you from these. BUT I WON'T GIVE UP!

RETRO PROJECT - Dakini Shaman & Idea Explanation

So here is the thing, we have 4 shamans in the game, and each representing her own tribe and followers.

Now because I am aligning my project with the mayan theme I decided the following, each shaman represents an animal of her own, which is her guardian spirit. Suits mayans pretty well, and can make some unique appearances for the shamans themselves.

So the ideas were:
Blue Shaman (Player tribe) - Eagle
Red Shaman (Dakini) - Jaguar
Yellow Shaman (Chumara) - Lion
Green Shaman (Matak) - Snake

And here is a small WIP for the Dakini Shaman. (jaguar)

Color & Value study - African Female & Skull

54 Minutes

 45 Minutes (Each skull 45)

MOAR Value studies! - Selfportrait

As title says, some value study in the form of a self portrait. Around 2 and a half hours spend of this so far.

For some reason the picture on blogspot has a weird white haze over it. Guess I have to... deal with it!

Value Studies - Skulls

As for the past week, I've set myself completly to do studies, and practice practice practice until my fingers have gone numb. Oh yea, and lots of reference photos, getting ideas in my head, all that good stuff.

Enough babbleboozles, one value study and a shape/line study.

Retro Game Project - MOAR planets!

And here is the 3rd and 4th planet in the series. A Tropical and a Desert world. Time to do some sets.

Retro Game - Props & Idea Doodles

 Some props, masks of the shaman. These are based on the original game, to get an idea of shape and stuff.

 
And as an added bonus, a small practice piece (Composition & Light)

Retro Project - Planets & Characters

Here is a small preview of the planets that will be having the sets done for.

A regular world, and a hell world. Sets incoming.

Oh, and some character stuff I had lying around, I'll add that just in case.

Blind Aquarelics

Content Dump #3 - Blind Sketches, Sketches and other things

 Blind Sketches (Digital) Dump

Folds and Clothing Practice

 

Digital coloring assignment

 

Personal Coloring Practice

Content Dump #2

The Rejuvenating One - Sketch dump

 

Personal Project - Sketch Dump

Other - Brushes