Blood Makes The Grass Grow!

Done with a set palette for a weekly art challenge on tumblr.

Sketchpost!

So I just realized it's been a while since I posted some sketches!

This is from when I was working for Brand X, fairies started creeping into everything I drew. This one is labeled "bug" and I don't know more than that. On that topic, my game is coming out soon, so everyone should go preregister!



Here's some more Mucha-inspired Andy because I haven't drawn enough of that lately.



Undead animation. I don't know how the skeleton is holding together like that, and I don't know where its legs are... I like the concept though, it's on my list of drawings to improve.



This was Andy, in a disguise she never ended up wearing. I still like the design.



Spider... sort-of new character. She has a fun face, so she's really enjoyable to draw.



I spent a few months on WoW, which I'm not sure I enjoyed as a game, but the art was spectacular. This was my attempt to draw my character, Rin.



I've been attempting to push styles a bit farther by distorting shapes and all that... Andy has gotten to be my target pretty often because her build is curvy and fun to draw. I'm not sure how well I like this yet, but it's a fun change and I think the efforts will help my art.



Ghost!Andy. She's creepy when she dies.



Andy and her boyfriend Zachary. He is harder for me to draw, but I liked this one.



Eilshe. I don't think I've posted anything about him before. He's a retired character now--a shapeshifter who has taken the form of an elf. He was not very smart, but very friendly.



Spider again, with poofy pants.



Spider. This is her in-game outfit. You can tell she is a barbarian because she wears furry boots.



I'm NOT SURE what this is. I think I just wanted to draw little kids in gloves and boots and poofy hats. I think they would be fun to model in 3D.



A CAR. I actually really love cars, but never quite got around to practicing drawing them. I try to sketch 'em when I find myself waiting for someone in a parking lot.



Here's my map for the Dragon Age level. I think I'm going to start over so I can get it closer to this idea, I really like this design and I didn't quite have it nailed before.



Aaaaand that's it for now. :)

Miranda for Wiki

I finished a picture I was doing today and figured I would post my process here. This was done specifically for Andy's wiki page for Arkaz.

Thumbnail:

Sketch:

Inked lines:

Final:


The lines are done traditionally, ink on bristol paper. I spent so much time getting her legs right that her hand was very wrong initially. I ended up using tracing paper to fix her hand, then I scanned and composited it in Photoshop, then did the colors in Photoshop, because I've misplaced my watercolor pencils.

I'm happy with it for now. I really enjoy doing this style of art.

Andy Costume Update

I think this is the version I'm going to start working from. I'm not sure if I'll keep the blue. The character is meant to have rather drab robes. However, I'm happy with the overall design.

Hopefully the next post will be a WIP low-poly model. :)

Andy Thumbs

Did a couple more this morning based on critique I received. We're heading off to the ribbon-cutting ceremony at DigiPen now, I'll keep working on it when i get back.

New Project

Hello, sketchblog!

I am beginning a new project today, with the intention of reaching a few different goals.

It'll likely be much more realistic than a lot of my work has been in the past. It's been interesting so far, but I feel bad using this much photo reference.

I'm using Andy for this, half because I know the character like the back of my hand, and half because there's a new Neverwinter coming out and I thought it would be fun to translate a character from NWN1 into current gen graphics.

Here's the first four of my thumbnails for her costume.

So far I like the "pirate" one best but I'm not sure about the boots. I want something that looks roughly like what she wears in NWN1, but past that I'm unsure.

She has the skeletal arm, a set of distinctive bracers called "Evershade" (I only drew one in the thumbs though), and supposedly, really great legs. If I can get something that showcases those things while still keeping the resemblance, I will be really happy.

EDIT: After some initial critique, I've altered her proportions slightly:

Legs a bit longer, head a bit larger.

Fairytale

Finished! Just for fun, check out the sketch that got me to paint this:

Haha!

Zach, Andy, and other mythological creatures

Forgot to update!!

I completed my contract work for BrandX Games and they have given me permission to post the final two images! This is "3D Concept art" for an unreleased and unannounced game.



The project was a little rushed, but I think it came out very well for the amount of time I had. I also taught myself ZBrush for this project, and while I'm still fairly new to the program, it's SUPER FUN to model with it and I look forward to doing more ZBrush work!

However, right now I'm trying to get this painting finished!

I think I'm getting close to "finished" but there's a lot of untouched areas here still-- check out Andy's white blob of a spellbook! I also checked my sketch and realized I read some of my lines wrong and gave Zach a huge butt, so I might try to fix that too.

Progress

I can't believe I forgot to put this here!



I applied some critique from some other artists, particularly on minor tweaks to the anatomy, and I'm working on detailing and better defining the forms now.

My current project for BrandX is due to be finished on Monday, though, so I'm a little busy with that and can't work on this right now. I'll hopefully get some time to finish this up next week. :)

Fairytale Colors - From Scratch

So, remember this?

I took another look at it today and all I could think was, "wow, this looks awful." So, I ditched everything but my linework and started over completely on the colors. I entirely threw out what I was trying to do and worked differently, and I think it's a better painting for it. Here's what I have so far:

I think it has more life this way. Obviously it'll require a lot of work still, that's very roughed in, I just wanted to get the colors and lighting right off the bat. I also threw it into greyscale to see how it looked, and I'm much, much, much more happy with how my eyes flow along it now.

I'm excited about this, because I had gotten stuck and stopped working on it entirely. I'm really happy to get it going again. :)

Mirandy & Batstain

I've been working on character designs rather than colored doodles at work lately, so this is all I have that I'm ready to show yet. Sebastian is Bryanna's character, by the way... her prissy half-orc butler and my cute happy necromancer, because we apparently really like strange archetypes. :)

Blood Magic

More stuff I drew on my lunch break!



One day I will draw Andy doing something she, you know, actually does sometimes.

progress and lost lighting

This might have been slightly ambitious given the amount of available time I have right now. Anyway, I've finally got Zach's face to a level where I don't cringe to look at him, I've put in the base of a sword and some placeholder lightning. I had some blue light on them from the placeholder lightning, but accidentally closed the file without saving it, so that will have to be redone. I've also adjusted the seams on Andy's robe in the sketch so that it actually makes sense... might seem like a small tweak, but it was driving me insane.

I think their hair will stay as-is until I get the clothes to a more complete level, since I'll probably end up with some flyaway strands on the clothing and I think it will be more efficient just to do that once.


Here's what it looked like with the blue lighting I lost. The previous picture is more recent and has some tweaks to Zach's face to make him look a little better.

Finished

Finished this at work today. :D

The paper got all waffley from being colored, so my scanner destroyed it pretty well. I did my best to fix it up in Photoshop. Pretty happy with how this turned out, but I really badly want to go get more col-erase pencils now, considering what's shown here is basically every color I have left.

Work Doodles

Obviously Mucha-inspired WIP Andy. Complicated by the loss of most of my col-erase pencils, resulting in a VERY limited palette that does not, unfortunately, include her hair color.

Andy & Zachary WIP

I've posted some art of Andy/Miranda before, but it's all been little sketches. Well, recently I liked one of them enough to clean up.

The anatomy is entirely horrible here, but I liked the pose, so I scanned it in.


Here's the reference I'm working off of, by the way. Neverwinter Nights, quite old game, but still very good.


After a lot of sketching and redoing and moving things around, here's what I've got so far! The image got flipped since Zach's right handed and Andy's left hand is important, I'm not sure what I was thinking doing it the other way to begin with. The lines are more of a guide, I plan to remove them in the end. Oh, and I had no reference of Zach's sword, so I put off drawing it. I have some reference now, so that will probably be in the next version.


This is a better idea of what it'll look like in the end. :D She looks like a Disney character to me, but I'm cool with that.

Grab Bag

So, I now have a job working at BrandX Games, but since I can't post anything I'm working on, I am going to post a whole lot of unrelated doodles instead.

This is the loading animation on my website. I need to throw her on a nonwhite background.


Here's Zeb, who is a Megaman X fancharacter from middle school. Mind you, in middle school she looked like:

But no matter. :D

These three are of Miranda Rose, another D&D character who I haven't quite had time to do a painting of yet. I did unearth some really fun sketches, but the anatomy is so bad in them that I won't post it here until I've got a better version.

Here is something I haven't posted much of... a landscape!

This is something I'd like to paint as well. It's an elven temple, even though it looks like a tree. And on that topic, two pictures of a character from this area... drawn on the back of a D&D character sheet, because I am classy and also cannot be presented with paper without drawing all over it.


I think the second one is stronger. This character is always sticking a hip out, I'm not sure what's up with that.

Also from the back of the character sheet, but from a different game, Rhysaar. She's an aquatic elf of some kind.

Finally, here is a super pro drawing from the back of another D&D character sheet. It's our entire 4ed D&D party, inspired by the 4ed artwork. Princess in the middle is a (male, even) elven bard, the two on the end are lovely gnoll and dwarf fangirls of his, who apparently have similar taste in enormous, swirly bras. Emo tiefling and generic male paladin lead the party!!

This is on our fridge as though I am a four year old who made a picture for his mommy.

Aaaand hopefully one day, I will have something to post here that makes me look less crazy. :D