Panda Progress

As I've started to come to a more solid looking Panda, I wanted to sketch out ideas for the little girl. It took a while to understand the features of a young girl, seeing as I haven't drawn one before. So I gathered a lot of photo reference and then started to draw from them. A few turned out ok. Here's what I have for the concept sketch of the little girl for now. Any critiquing advice is welcome.


As for the Panda, he's coming along quite well. There's a lot to him so I'm just now starting to zone in and start working on some of the details. It's nice to see his muzzle and parts of his face finally taking the form. Still quite a bit of work ahead of me.

Wolf... Now with Claws!

Ok, so I had some advice from a friend, Jamie Douglas, to add some claws onto this beast. So here it is again, with added claw feature, not sold separately. Should start doing sketches for the main character, the little girl of the story fairly soon.

Ice wolf and Panda

I tried painting a wolf, and I'm not sure how it happened, but I think he turned out looking a bit cold. Nah, I meant to make him an ice wolf. Its a fictional species of wolves that I thought up that live up in the mountains. There's more back story behind them. Its part of a story that I'm creating for a bigger final illustration to eventually be painted later this year.


This next drawing is another character that will interact with the ice wolf in the final painting, in some way or another. It's my idea of a living Rusting Panda bear. I've started painting this in photoshop. Will wait to post the final painting of it tho. After the panda I will need to sketch out some ideas for a little girl who the panda will protect.

Publicity!

Sending out lots of advertising postcards and envelopes with resume and Job Inquiry letters to companies. It has been hectic gathering all the supplies and information to get it all done. But now its time to mail them all out! ... tomorrow :P

More sketches and illustrations to come.

Dragon logo!

So I decided to put a proper logo that I felt suited me onto my stationary sets for illustration business. And I thought, what do I love that will never fade that I could illustrate? A Dragon! So I drew up a few designs (after thinking about it for days), and finally came up with this after painting it in photoshop (while tiny bugs were crawling on me, yuck!).

Developments

Hi. I have some sketches that I've been working on. They'll eventually develop into some fully painted images. Working on some character/creature creations. The wolf is already started painting that one in photoshop. More on the way to come.

-Alex

Graduation Cleaning

After the trip I made to Bali its been hard to get back on my artistic wheels, but I have been sketching some. The ideas are starting to flow again. I've mostly been taking the time to clean up my room, and organizing a place to actually have a mini studio. I needed to create a proper place to draw, let alone paint. Once a drawing and painting area are established, ideas should start to develop much more readily.

Bali

Hello everyone. Just for an update, I have been on holiday in Bali, Indonesia for the past month. The place was great, had a wonderful time! But now that I've taken a break from all the chaos that is illustration (and schooling) I'm ready to get back on the horse. Probably going to start small and work from there, so don't be too upset if the first few posts are just of texture samples or just simple sketches. Need to get back into my groove.

Sincerely,
Alex

Faery Inspired

The last image that I did for college classes. A last illustration that I decided to do for my personal focus class. Just a faery sitting on a bench. Went with the six wings because i find it to be more intriguing some times.

Graphic novel assignment.

4 pages of a graphic novel for my Character illustration class. Possibly the only assignment I had fun with. Yet put less amount of time into in ratio to the size.

copyright 2010, and all that.

Assassin Starting

So for our newest project for Digital mixed media, it was sort of a vague assignment that dealt with something to do with us and how we create illustration. Mine was simply stated that i create illustration of a fictional and imaginative nature. So for my illustration i wanted to do a portrait of an assassin. Which i found at first to be a bit difficult considering the limited amount of information being told in a portrait. Here's what I've come up with for a rough sketch and a color comp. I'm really liking it so far. Would almost say forget the photo ref, but I want to push the best lighting that I can get as well as textures for clothing.

I'm looking forward to the final. It's gonna be great!

Growth Monster done!

The growth monster is finally completed. I changed the face on the kid. The nose and cheeks weren't working before. The nose is much better now I feel. Am still trying to transition into painting more subtle shades. A more realistic approach instead of the graphic harsh shadows and harsh direct lighting that we've been told to do from freshman school year. This is the part of the progress.