Self Portrait Day!

I was a bit more prepared this year for Self Portrait Day.  I was pretty stoked for it to roll around but shamelessly didn't come up with a good lighting plan.  Instead I decided to sit in the dark, and use the underglow of my monitors as my light sources in a dark room.  I found it interesting at first because of all of the subtleties, and yet only managed to catch a few of them.  A good practice nonetheless and will be doing more in the near future.  The rest is some #inktober stuff, some practice pieces and the final image is a remix of an old character from about 5 years back.  Thanks for looking!

Inktober #16

Fartbook BBQ sketches

Some pages from various sketchbooks from earlier this year.

LNB, Voodoo Mama, and Studies and Biker Beatdown

Thanks for the patience guys, I am still drawing and painting and have just been training and attending workshops. Here are some small snacks while I get ready to start pumping out more work! Thanks for stopping by.

scifi.exe

Sketchbook Jargon

A page from my most recent sketchbook.  Trying out a few different things and trying to let my style pronounce itself again. The beardface and the girl with the cup are my favs from this page.

Feb Digi Sketches

Here are some pieces I forgot about in my Feb folder.  I like how they turned out and will have to revisit these guys..I especially like the armor thumbs, those were fun to get into.  2, 4, and 7 are my favs.  Feel free to leave a comment and let me know which ones you guys like :D

Live Junk

Where I stopped on the stream before it was dinner time.  I may or may not go back to this guy to push the design around a bit more~

Heaven's Hell Fanart

I got a chance to sit down and got a chance to play with some pixels for a moment, and wanted to do some fan art of my buddy AJ's world Heaven's Hell.  He ran a contest earlier this year and I decided to do a drawing using his rules as my challenge.  It was to complete a character within an hour that would belong in the world of Heaven's Hell.  After that hour I liked where it was at, but decided to mess around with some techniques and try to push the piece to finish.  Also facebook's image crunchiness motivated me to push things a bit further and clean up a lot of the areas to read clearer.

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Blue Wizards. Character Forge #38

Here's how it turned out~
This one definitely made me push some of my designs further upon seeing how some of the stuff was stale, or standard.  I wanted to push a few things further, but the deadline came up and I barely got this sucker in on time.  Well there is always the next one, and I will try not to get too hung up on working a piece to death, too much arting to do and too little time.  Thanks for looking!

2 Blue

some more progress on this one.  This is my WIP for my entry over at cg hub for the 2D Character Forge.

The two blue wizards mentioned in The Hobbit.

Finishing up the bigger shapes and the lighting strategy and gonna start noodling in some details and color soon :D

Fun fun

Was messing around with Master Hanna's process and did a selfy.  The resemblance is off but it was fun to bust regardless.

This was a quick drawing of my gf.  Hotness yo!

And for a little inspiration:
Secrets of Success in 8 Words and 3 Minutes

Helmut - Sketches and Color Var

Just doing some helmet exploration. Trying out different techniques and exploring different visual language and aesthetics.

Sketches, Sketchy's, and Sketch

Some sketches, old and new all mashed together

First night at Dr. Sketchy's :D

Mecha Bot Sketch