Study More!

Trying to get myself to crank out studies. Here's a quick one I did today. Image thanks to about 8 seconds on google image search.

Kingfisher

Trying to get a study or two done this summer. Here's study I did on a photo of a kingfisher. Probably about 2 or 2 and a half hours all told...

Keen on Art

With my new place set-up for the most part (minus the internet and still with some really ugly wall colours) I've been been able to get a decent amount of tablet stuff done, when I haven't been sweltering in the heat. It helps that I have very limited internet access until tuesday, so I don't have the option to waste my entire life watching bad shows online.

Anyway, this drawing is dedicated to my brother Nick, who I used to watch play all the Commander Keen games. Here is my alternate rendering of Commander himself in progress. I want to put him in some kind of environment but I'm not sure if I'd rather have him be in his room pretending he's fighting aliens, or actually have him fighting aliens. What is not in debate is that the caption "It's Ogrebird!" will be present no matter what happens.

Guardians of the Portal Gate

Hey all, more COW stuff this week. I have some non-COW stuff that I'll be posting in the next little while, but with moving into my new place, COW has been about all I have time to do recently.

The theme this week is as titled above. I wanted to make my portal guardians with a combination of Mayan architecture with traditional East-Asian sculpture a la Team Ico's art style. I wanted to combine that with a bit of Miyazaki and a few other things. I didn't get to work in it quite as much I would've liked, but due dates are due dates. I think it turned out alright in the end.

The Final Revelation

Here's the finished Revelations piece. It's not as cleaned up as I had hoped but I was running short on time. Hope you enjoy it. I had a lot of fun with it, even if I was a bit rushed on it.

Revealed

Hey guys, so this week's Creature of the Week topic is Revelations. The creature has to be a re-imagining of "The Beast" from revelations. However the artist wants to interpret it is up to them, but it has to be the harbinger of the apocalypse and it has to bear the "mark of the beast" whatever that may be according to the artist.

Here's what I have right now, after an hour or two of work. I'm trying to get across the feel of the old school Amano monsters from the early final fantasy titles. Here are some images of my inspiration:









Here's what I have right now. And yes, I have the General Electric logo as a placeholder for the Mark of the Beast right now.

Supersonic and Interstellar

Hey guys. Last week I entered Enviro of the Week as well as Creature of the Week. The topic was "Interstellar Lighthouse". Also on the docket is this week's Creature of the Week, which is the "Supersonic Spike". I'm not super happy with either, but my enviros are never that great, and the creature I was running a bit low on the time factor and had to rush certain parts of it that I wouldn't have otherwise.