Commissions + Chick Tat WIP

Here are my latest quick pencil commissions, these I generally try to keep pretty quick. I tend to add tones since my sketches are feeling a bit more rushed lately. I still sit down and spend time in my sketch book but its getting easier and easier to get distracted. I am going to remedy this by leaving the house to draw to isolate myself from the interwebs and ps3.

*note: I dont remember where I got the photo for the bats bg, but just throwing it out there as to not take credit for it*





This is just a painting I have been messing with after work. I have never painted up a sexy type chick so I decided to mess around with this one before I jump into it. Trying to get my blending down and introduction of more colors. It has been a while since I jumped straight into color and instantly pleased with the lack of greys and dead colors. Still chipping away at this and finding myself needing to reference things. Any feedback is welcome!

Drake Commission

My latest color bust commission. I took way too long on this :(

Quick Draw Friday cont.

So I haven't decided whether I should upload these in batches or in singular form. This one is fresh off the presses. I just picked up Peace Walker and am playing Snake Eater at home, so when the topic: "Game Hero" came up, Snake CQCed my brain. 1 Hour and massive hunger, but no snakes or frogs around for me to snack on.

Quick Draw Friday Batch

So at work every Friday we have a quick 1 hour speed paint session during our lunch break. Here is what I came up with the past couple of weeks.

Chick Studies

Just decided to do some face studies of some girls. I also tried to exercise the use of big brush strokes to define the form. I limited myself to one brush which was rectangular and tried to see what I could do with it. It was interesting cause I had to fight myself on certain parts and just let some details go.

Diggin through boxes

So I was digging through some old bags and boxes of materials I had left over from school a while back and decided to use the materials I once deemed as pointless, and put them to use for a nice little painting practice session. Luckily I had just enough of the supplies to mess with, all except a white acrylic. It was like cement inside the tube, so I just tried to make it more playable by kneading it between my fingers. Here is a quick practice painting, multi media ftw! Oh also I tried using some of my digital techniques on the traditional. I started from gray scale and tried to colorize that ish. Some funky white, and no black was used for this.

2nd Commission

Wew...I started this a while back, but got caught up at work a lot shortly after. I struggled through, and felt like I lost tons of steam during the break away from this. I tried to tackle a few different things, and found a nice way to achieve a vignette look I was happy with. The client was super patient during the wait and I can't thank him enough.