from reference

Another study from reference. Reflected light is so interesting
And here is one from reference I did yesterday. Simultaneous contrast is crazy - all that blueish looking foam along the edge of the ocean is actually just desaturated orange. Crazy.

Odds are pretty good that I'll have some of my own stuff up later tonight.

Sea Dragon

Kitchen Cat

Landscapery

The one on the bottom right is from reference, the other three are just messing around. I drew plants and landscapes at Huntington today, and I don't really feel like scanning my pen drawings right now, but I think they helped give me a point of reference for these little color sketches.

Fish

Here's some fish

New stuffs

Reference

Desert with airship. I like deserts and airships a lot, apparently, since they always seem to show up.

Goodness gracious, another update

My what a productive day I'm having. I got a little more daring with the colors here.

Another from ref

Yay! I'm trying to think about the color choices I'm making, not just copy the photo exactly. It's very helpful for seeing what other colors can be mixed into a picture. When I do my own, they tend to be fairly monochromatic.

Practice from reference

Just doing some speedies from reference. Both are from National Geographic's galleries. That site has a wealth of pretty things to look at.

Bee race

there's a pretty good chance the colors on this are going to look completely nuts - they look normal to me in painter and preview, but crazy oversaturated in photoshop. And I don't really know which program is telling the truth.

Gull ship

part of my color-sketch-a-day thing.

Rabbit Army

I'm not really terribly happy with this one - the scale/perspective are way off. I like the colors, but I think they're probably going to look crazy intense on other monitors because reds always seem to show up differently on other monitors than they do on mine.

Monkey, meet Butterfly

Originally it was just a monkey sitting there, but that was a little boring. I was going to have him meeting a robot, but then I got lazy and went with butterfly.

House in the Woods

I saw this french horror animation thing at the LA Film Fest and I had to start creating something creepy. I think I know where this story is going - here are the first four panels.

Old Cat and a Forest Church Thing

I was working on this forest church thing for my background portfolio, but it's not really going where I want it to. So I took a break and drew a grizzled old cat. I think the background drawing just needs more contrast and a lot more work. I have so much trouble when I actually try to finish something - it looked so good in the color key phase. I'll post it when I actually finish.