Pack Mule Bull-Man head Paint

Coloring the whole drawing from yesterday was pretty optimistic...  at least at the rate I am going...

This is several hours of work... but hey, its something!  All I was able to do today was the Bull characters head... and even thats not finished.  Still need to touch up his hair and clean up a few other spots... like his lip looks like the same color as his teeth etc.  But not bad for a days work!

pack mule character

today at work I scribbled a couple of rough character sketches.  This one caught my attention and I thought it would be a fun character to draw out.  The character has a long snout, longhorn bull head with a ring in its nose.  A very strong and heavy upper body, but then small goat-like legs.  I then gave it a tail to help support its heavy upper body.  

I brought the rough sketch into Photoshop and dimmed the layer and started drawing some line art on top of it.  After drawing out the full sketch with the weapon in its hand above its head... it looked odd to me.  At this point I felt the weapon looked goofy just holding it above his head for no apparent reason...  A weapon is heavy and not something you would typically hold above your head.  I then thought it might be fun to make him like a "pack mule" carrying a heavy load.  I sketched it out and liked it... but then felt it needed a reason to be carrying such a load... and then thought up the idea that he was a mercenary / pack mule employee of a wealthy merchant.  My mind naturally went to a goblin... and I threw one on top.

I then finished up the line art and am pleased with the results... I would love to throw some color onto this thing and really bring it to life.  Im thinking tomorrow I will spend some time ding that.

Happy Friday

Re-Draw of an old friend

I drew this dragon a few years back and really liked the personality of him.  When thinking of something new to re-draw with the new methods ive been learning I decided to do a re-draw of him.  The wise old dragon with a broken horn-  very cartoony and whimsical.  Im pretty pleased with how he turned out! Thinking about drawing a body for the old chap-

Scary Hell Hound creature

Today I bought the "Creature Painting" course from digitalpaintingstudio.com and wanted to apply what I was learning.  This is what I came up with for my first attempt.  Im pretty satisfied with my progress and the way it turned out.  I do see some issues with the structure of the head and coloring, but overall It turned out a lot better than I had expected.  I do have an issue with my monitor though- it must be too bright because when i finish and then post the picture online and look at it on another machine or myphone it looks way too dark.  Ill have to look into that... so I tried to lighten this up a bit.

Im excited to refine my digital painting and do more of these!

Post Apoc Car

Todays doodle... a post apocalyptic car with all sorts of metal bits welded onto it to make it scurry... or you know... protect the driver.

Just doodled on top of a car image.  Ive never been super good at drawing vehicles.  Something I could improve on!

Dragon Doodle at work

Today I doodled at work.  I stayed a little late because my wife was watching extra kids... its usually a zoo at home on Mondays until around 7.  I took advantage of the quite time at work and doodled with headphones on.  Pen and Ink on paper is still my very favorite... 

I used a couple of highlighters as well for coloring...  when you are at the office you use whats available... 

Post Apocalyptic Driver

Ok... I took a break on the jewel practice and went to my comfort zone- 

Just doodling and this is what I ended up with an hour later.

I have a busy night tonight so I just stayed up late... its 2:30 am Saturday morning... I better get some sleep.

Crystal Letters 2

Wow - some time has flown by! I got super sick... I randomly got a Kidney Infection... what the heck is that?  But man it kicked my butt.  Im on the up and up now and want to keep this jewel theme up.  For today I just put in an hour detailing the M from my previous post.  I wanted to finish it but I got a little distracted...   I like how its looking though!

Crystal Letters 1

I wanted to do some cool gem-stone or crystal like lettering.  I put a few hours in but didnt come close to finishing-  a lot of trial and error for me.  I like the direction though! I was thinking for a game title or something this would look pretty awesome.

I decided to do my initials signature.  Since its just 2 letters...

Looking like something...

Crude Blue Gemstone

Tried something a little different. More cartoon style  / thick lines like I normally do.  Interesting results, different style.

Cold Gem

This is a quick one- trying to make it less cut- and cold feeling.  I think with another hour or two it could have been a lot more polished but I didnt have much time today

Rubies

More gemstones,  I think Ill do these for a week.  

Fire Gem

Starting this up again! Want to get better and need more practice.  I improved a lot doing ADailyDoodle and think its about time I dedicate at least a few minutes every day to practicing what I love- drawing!

Today is a gem / jewel practice.