alien progress

Been working on the alien sketch a little more.

Quick creature sketch I did today. First just a quick line drawing and then a gray value gradation, into a color wash, into more opaque layers of digital paint. The bottom is the latest version of the sketch.

Couple of sketches from the sketchbook. Mostly 2b pencil and graphite.

Hey Everyone. I am going to be posting more often over the next couple of months, my goal is about 2-3 a week at least. Anyway, here is an alien sketch I did today after work. Starting with a line drawing, into a color wash and then into detail.

Just some quick sketches to post.

Finally...A first post!

Hey everyone! I am starting this blog to hopefully help out people wanting to become artists like myself. But, after going to James Gurneys blog, I see that i will not be able to put up a more informative blog than him lol. So this is basically going to be a sketch dump, with a little bit into the process behind the images, and other paintings im working on other than things for work. Anyhoot, here are some studies and sketches that I have been working on. I wish i could post some of my illustrations that i have, but i need to check with work till i can do that.

This is usually how I start a painting, with a black and white value study, into a color wash, then I repaint over the top of that. I dont reccommend just using a color layer and just leaving it as your color, its going to usually look muddy and digital looking. I only use it for a general idea of the color and saturations that i want in the image. Then I paint over the top with the true color i want there. And then start pushing and pulling that into cooler, warmer, neutral, or more saturated tones.