Warming up - haven't drawn for a few days. Found something like a dragon in this one.

Just searching for more things through scribble. I'm hoping to find ideas to combine together to make into something. The errors don't bother me so much at this stage - just putting down thoughts.

fantasy art practice

Took this one slightly past the scribble stage. I was thinking about the Silent Hill movie when I drew it - I loved that movie.

scribble #2

Trying out Shi Painter: it's got a pretty nice line quality with the pen tool.

I like scribbling. I find interesting ideas that look like crap. I guess it's sort of like free writing. I like boobs.

Tried starting with a cube this time. The timer's a bit short - I had to reload lascaux somewhere in the middle to get the ink flowing again.

Some usual practice scrap with a weird ending:

started with a circle, attached a jaw, drew some eyes, drew a nose (with nostrils and all), decided the eyes looked sort of anime-ish, emphasized that, drew some lips, went back and erased some lines to make the nose look simpler and more anime-like, scribbled in a neck and some ears, drew some crazy hair, and called it finished.

Can't decide if it's a guy or a girl. I'm leaning towards girl, but the jaw is odd (I was planning a guy when I drew it). It was just a weird circle of discovery.

I like economy of lines, and would like to find a cartoon style I can draw comfortably - doesn't have to be very original: I'm mostly interested in the storytelling aspect for illustration, and economy is most important there for me.

Just trying out some abstract shapes and colors to try to make something that resembles a cloud.

A first attempt at painting clouds (actually a first attempt at trying to paint anything other than a figure). It reminds me of caramel. I used a reference very loosely: http://www.nesky.org/gallery/colorado_album/day3/hires/Sky.JPG. I just wanted to get an idea of what a sky looks like since it's been a while since I stepped out of the dungeon.

I wasn't confident enough to really go in there and paint with full blown contrast. Hopefully as I get more practice, I can do these a lot more quickly and with more variation in colors and values.

I tried to be fairly systematic with my approach so that I wouldn't lose myself in chaos. I worked from darks to lights with bigger, less opaque brushes for shadows and worked towards smaller, more opaque brushes for highlights. I didn't allow myself to go back to the previous steps for this one.

I want to focus primarily on drawing fantasy people and creatures, but I'd like to be able to sketch in some very basic backgrounds some day for these characters to reside in, so I'm starting off by practicing clouds.