character silhouette

The writing is supposed to mean "Cancer" in Greek. Gotta trust google I guess. I'm enjoying this b/w shape so I'm gonna flesh this guy out on whatever extra time I got between assignments. This will be added to what will hopefully become my thesis project which will include creating 24 characters, 12 for the zodiac signs and 12 for the chinese year animals. So yeah, any comments are welcome!

Hope yall students had a fun loving spring break and are ready to get back to it!

Girl with the Tattoo

This was fun. The photo is horrible and was taken under artificial light at night. I've worked more on her feet, legs and hand, to create a nicer flow to it. I'll take a better pic soon and remove these excuses lines. =D

Charcoal yum yum

this is an example of how to NOT draw hands... And I hope below is an example of how to YES draw hands, lol....







I'll put the finished version here once I take a pichurr.
















Feet study. This was much quicker than the hands due to a boring essay I had to write during the weekend and also cuz I wanted to try being faster and less worried. I like the outcome.





















In-class drawing. I'll be drawing this model again for the long 2 week assignment. Really dig the tattoo on her arm.

L8uh

blade mistress

Or something like that.. this is more fun than I had in a while tho, and that's why I'm sharing the WIP. It started with a weird sketch that was inspired by 2h of deviantart browsing (which means it's 99.7% manga/anime oriented). She had a way bigger head/hair before I went over on the second round of detailing/paint-covering of her head.

I just like the fact it's just a girl and all I get to play with is the sexy and the "scy-fi-ish" part of it. Oh yeah. Another thing I tried was to keep the colors planned out before I went too crazy. Gonna be trying to work with dark and muted blue-greens and bright strong red-oranges.

*edit* Just called it done and here's the product. Don't want to be spending too much time rendering something that's just a concept study. I did enjoy it a lot tho =D.

Cheers! Have sum beers!

Erm...

I had a teacher that said very loud and clear in class: "Don't make a blog if you don' t update it at least once a month. People will think you're dead. And that's a bad thing". I agree. Business can't go well if clients don't know you are alive to paint for them heh.

Along with other watercolor stuff that I'll post shortly. I've been working on this digital painting of a faerie. Random subject. Just wanted something that would make me sit and paint. I'm happy with how it looks right now, maybe I'll work on her hands a little. I'm open for suggestions.

Cheers!

Mastablasta!

So I've done this work for a client in the UK!!! Very nice easygoing fella. This is an album cover for two rappers of my client's music record or something like that. Their sound is pretty cool and the album will be available for free download soon from what I understood. Anyways, it was lots of fun and here is a look at how it came out.

Noel Xmas Card

I was blessed with being picked to work on this chrismas card. My client was very cool and specific so it went really smoothly throughout the whole process. This was my first official freelance in the U.S. after graduating, so I was kinda nervous about how it would come out, but I like it and so does my client, so yay for xmas!

The illustration has different color options for the kids clothes as well, and also a version without the heads, so that people can put their kids heads on top of the bodies =D. The headless version looks a little bit creepy so I'm not gonna post here =D.



Cheers everyone and a great summer.

Theo