hour self portrait

about an hour color study in ps elements before i go to work.

update:

Swamp Elder

Swamp elder submission i entered to the crimson daggers i posted the process stages below as well  give or take a few steps. alot of going back and forth to my sketches and ref material really helped out alot especially time wise.

might of overdone the blue but at least she is actually starting to resemble a female.

anatomy studies and "moose stuff"

been back at the pencil while at work well at least when im not half falling asleep...note to everyone dont ever work 3rd shift unless you have to or you have some type of sleep disorder that rapes your brain its not condusive to a healthy what is that thing again....mind?

anyway some anatomy studies from a book that i "forgot to return" to my school before i left (and they tried to kick me out) and a sketch of my older brother as a gears character for christmas, crimbus, festivas...quanchonica..? or what ever you want to call it

ooohh shiny?

just a few quick touch ups before im off to do some studies.

radiant light, some texture and brightness/ saturation added

push it to the MAX!!!

dont ask why i named it that, anyway heres a quick update on the heron swamp piece going back into refs and sketches to try and get this as far as possible, a few hours into color as well as multiple revisions from the greyscale concept.

all but done

So i finally found out what i wanted to do with that other arm, going to call this finished for now but i do want/have to go back into it and cleanup and add a few finishing details.

who needs sleep....

Well trying to make the most of my days off of work with attempts of trying to find ways of getting as far away from it as possible, and here is the yet to be finished result thus far and the reason i did not sleep last night...

lots of references and sketches + an actual idea - sleep = faster and so far better work

cyberhunterpet

revisions after crit, thanks dan, dave & trevor for the feedback

before

If anyone doesnt know about the crimson daggers check it out, its ran by my friend Dan Warren & Dave Rapoza, live streams, briefs, feed back and good old school motivation.

http://crimsonbloodsports.blogspot.com/

links to the stream and related sites can be found in that link as well.

more 20 minute studies

2nd round of studies for the day, now off to sleep...at  9am...

20 minute studies

some anatomy/ tone studies, giving myself 20 minutes each to work with them to help me learn how to make quicker decisions when it comes to basic things like anatomy, tone, lighting etc....

Serpent witch update

Ah because of good old work im back being a nocturnal being of the night, did a couple of studies today and finally got some work done on this piece again fixing the anatomy and made some adjustments with the help of my friend Dan who pointed out some things i wasnt noticing, its always good to have a second perspective.

still a couple issues to tackle anatomy wise.

greyscale study

about an hour or so in, a study i screen captured from an episode of dexter, plan on doing a few more...

Ive been keeping a livestream to keep track of my  progress but if you feel like checking out the process go ahead. actually had a few more vids but forgot to save them oh well.
http://www.livestream.com/theark22?t=943329

also just messing around with a mega man sketch i did at work..

more studies

Yep another study, i gotta get around to loading up some of my sketchbook work as well, as of late ive been trying to do just straight color studies in ps and maybe that thing in my head that makes me think will actually learn something...?

oh well, if you want to check out the terrible job i did compared to the photo ref it should be somewhere back in the blog.

study number 2

Some more studies done in photoshop and without sample...ing colors with the eyedrop tool, aside from a few problems im happy with the progress ive been making so far.

Hand Refs LOOK! DONT TOUCH!

Some hand references...

dont get the ref? than your dead to me...sorry