Monday 31 October 2016

Day 02/62



Day 02. Water and foliage are the most major areas I need to work on, then values and shapes. 

Tried doing a realistic ootd (outfit of the day). Face is made up, so it's a stylised version of my face. Way harder than I thought it would be, but I'll definitely be trying again. Good practice. 


Less talky, more worky

I need to get better at environments. Going to try do an environment study every day for the rest of the year. Then next year I can start a 365 of trying to come up with my own environment sketches.

Day 01/62.

Study of a still from The Lone Ranger.

Sunday 30 October 2016

Annual Post (ha ha)

Well, I'm shit at updating.
Here's an art dump of some random stuff.






Some studies and then stuff I made for two upcoming cons. One was this past weekend, and the next is Supanova. Bit of a stressful experience, trying to make a bunch of stuff in time. Overall, I think cons aren't for me. It doesn't feel rewarding in the slightest. I don't mind being candid, but I don't want to ramble, this blog is already too wordy. I'll see how Supanova goes, but at this point it's looking like I'd rather spend time on freelance work and gallery work. I'd like to try again with all original work though, but that'll have to be some time next year. So far my best seller is the Catwoman portrait. I had a lot of fun making it, it came together quickest of all the pieces. Experimenting with style, don't think it's quite what I want yet though. 

This year got off to a slow ass start. Looking back, I think I was pretty depressed after coming back from LA. It's taken me this long to recover. It's hard finding the place you feel you belong, and then having to leave. I'll get back there, someday, somehow. It feels like home, except for the shitty coffee (sorry Americans!). One thing I was looking forward to all year, after my Month of Love disaster (too slow, and I couldn't think of anything for the themes), was Month of Fear. Unfortunately, I'm still too slow. I like the topics a whole lot more though, so I'm going to try work through them at my pace. First is 'Secret'.



Made this study sort of thing for it. It's weird as hell making original art. I realised I've been avoiding it like the plague because I was worried about what people would think. But it's time. I just want to make something that matters to me. I have a whole bunch of ideas I want to work on and I'm super excited to start.