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Saturday, November 6, 2010

Agents of Atlas colors

Khoi Pham posted his penciled commission over on the Ten Ton boards.  I thought it was a great image and rendered in a way I'm not used to seeing, so I took a shot at coloring it today.  Lots of fun and educational, too!

Friday, November 5, 2010

Monster #2

Trying out some new techniques in Photoshop.  I love drawing monsters!

Thursday, November 4, 2010

Monster of the day

I watched part of Steve Firchow's Gnomon coloring video last night.  While our styles couldn't be farther apart, I liked what I saw and still learned a lot of concept stuff more than technical stuff.  I pulled his pallet file and one of the texture files and tried them out today.

Quick sketch, more for experiment than results.

Saturday, October 23, 2010

Ten Ton Power Girl

Inspired by the weekly Ten Ton Studios sketch challenge.  I don't draw women much or well, so this turned out better than I expected for me.  Still think I broke her spine by twisting her so much and the legs need a lot of work, but I'll let it go for now.

All digital in Photoshop with Wacom Intuos2 tablet.

Rough

Tightened up

Maybe final?

Tuesday, October 19, 2010

Ten Ton Avengers

Move Avengers goodness.  Inspired by the Ten Ton Sketch Challenge prompt.  I drew it digitally, so can't enter, but it was a fun piece.

Friday, October 8, 2010

Avengers quicky

My littlest one started drawing a bunch of Marvel heroes tonight.  Iron Man, Captain America, Hulk, Spider-Man.  He likes it when I draw stuff for him to color, too, so I whipped this out.  A little rusty, but it was fun and he loves it.

Thursday, October 7, 2010

Congress of Night Peter head concept

Here is a new Peter character head concept from my project Congress of Night.  Enjoy.