09/18/11

Painting in the Red

In my last “Frenzy” 1 of the pieces I posted was line art of Red Sonja. In all honesty I dont know a whole lot about the character, but she just kinda popped up in 1 of my fanart binges.

Still trying to improve my digital color skills and find a style that goes well with the line line work I produce. I think this one came out fairly well so I’ll post a visual break down of the process that went into it.

 

 

 

And heres a better look at the final.

 

 

So yeah, I’m pleased and I think this look is a fairly strong progression of what I’ve been trying to do. I’m gonna have to start coloring more stuff this way and see how it works out. Stay tuned to see how it evolves.

-Danno Out!

09/2/11

Friday Night Frenzy

Got plenty to show from this week. Theres a lil more variety this time around. Lets get started, first up…

 

Character sketch for project RFI (note she was intended to be riding on a golemn):

 

This was intended to be the afore mentioned Golem. He ended up much larger than originally intended. (Then for fun I started playing around with the idea of a “steam punk” golemn. I know everything is “steam punk” these days. It was fun, theres a lot more I could do with it though so we’ll see if another one doesn’t pop up at some point. Still playing with ink. really enjoying it:

 

Random attempt at a muscular guy. Dont draw them very often, just trying to stretch my capabilities. Not really pleased with the outcome, but hey its all part of progress!

 

Lil guy … nuff said.

 

Still doing my daily figure drawing and 1 of the poses that came up was similar to this one. It reminded me of some of the old Pin-up art by folks like Gil Elvgren or Alberto Vargas. (Of course there are tons of others like my favorite artist of today Adam Hughes) . So I ran with it:

 

 

Up next we’ve got a slew of Street Fighter portraits. I dont do portraits all to often, which is a shame because its quickly becoming one of my weakest areas. Thats why I put in a little practice tile doing quick portraits or already made characters ranging from 10-20 mins a piece.

 

Ken:

 

 

Chunli: (Edited in PS her right eye was buuuuusted, so I cloned the other real quick.)

 

 

Cammy:

 

 

Dhalsim: (pardon the quality. Lost the scan some how so I just took a picture with my phone.)

 

 

Blanka: (or as I like to call him in this picture. Blankgeta)

 

In fact blankas, resemblance to a Super Saiyan makes me wanna do all of the street fighter characters in the DBZ world.. … or maybe the other way around. Ideas to play around with, we’ll see what happens. Thanks for tuning in!

-Danno Out