Sea Serpent Studies

For the past couple of days I was doing some research on sea serpents for an ongoing animation project.  Here's several silhouettes of some serpent heads, still a work in progress, but I like the direction that some of these are heading towards.

Quick Hour and Half Study

Time to start up the dailies again. Here's a quick experimentation painting with some "new" brushes.  I got some brushes from artists on dA (deviantart.com) that I haven't had a chance to test out and now that winter break is here, there's plenty of time to mess with them! I need to start putting in more saturated colors into my paintings.  I think this one is too muted for my liking.  

Itch to Paint

One thing about working at the my apt is that it gets very... depressing and the melancholy feel starts to sink in.  I pretty much dislike windows that face south because of that.  Since I couldn't focus on my animation homework I decided to do a 1 hour portrait.  

In this one project I'm working on with a group of friends - a fantasy/adventure/comedy story, one of the main characters, Ethan, has an uncle who was a king of this well established kingdom.  For the longest time we were trying to figure out how he would look like, still a work in progress, but that gave me the push to do something rather than sit at my desk, staring off into space. So here's a rough start to this character's physical appearance. 

Quick 1 hour study

Finally got a break from animating this semester. Here's a quick 1 hour portrait study. I was messing with a few brushes that I have yet to experiment with and it was fun to test out the different textures and tweak them a bit just to see what happens. Right now it's looking more like a rough reversal project. xD Ah... that was one charcoal related rendering project that I don't miss. haha. I'm happy with the way it turned out especially for an hour study.  Hopefully, I can find more time in the near future to bust out more paintings.

Portrait 17

Not feeling it tonight, but I forced myself to get through it. Turned this into a 2 hr study. ...I just realized my highlights went missing. o___o;;; And that's one big forehead. Ffffffffffff.

Portrait 16

I tried to do something a bit different by switching programs. Rather than using Photoshop I used Corel Painter to stop myself from getting nit picky about small details. Also decided to use a different color for a change.  Done in 2 hours.

Portrait 15.2

Eh... couple days late with this one.  I guess that's what happens when you celebrate the end of summer day camp and decide to take a couple days off from painting.  Oops~ Will upload another portrait tonight. xD

Portrait 15

Wooo numba 15.  I didn't know who to do a portrait of, so I asked my sister and the first person she says is Chris Colfer. So here's a quick like sketch for today.  This time around I tried to really get the proportions down.  Hopefully it doesn't look (too) off.
Will actually get to painting it tomorrow.  Today was the last day of CUMC summer day camp, so that meant dinner and performance for the parents and the kiddies after a long day of play in GGPark, so yes, I'm wiped.  I didn't think I'd be this tired actually since I didn't have to wake up so early today.  I wasn't needed at the church this morning to pack lunches or to start prepping lunch for leaders, so that meant another half an hour to sleep, yay~  But, yeah, after day camp it was pretty much a mad rush to get everything set up for the dinner plus helping out with serving dinner. So glad I didn't have to cook said dinner.  Hopefully now I can get more practice in now that day camp is over.  :D

Portrait 14.2

I got the day off from work today, so that meant more time to mess around with Photoshop.  Re-visited the last portrait I was working on. The chin's a bit longer than it should be, but other than that I like how the way it turned out.

Portrait 14

A quick 1 hour sketch practice. Though it was probably less than that because I got distracted a lot... Totally not focused today. @__x

Portrait 13

Random portrait out of my head... That nose.

Portrait 12

... I just noticed that his nose looks a bit too long. xD Gah... Need to go back and check proportions next time. 

Break from Portraits

Decided to do a digital landscape instead.  I did work on a couple of quick portraits in gouache, but I will upload those at a later date.  I'll definitely do a color version of this once I tweak it a bit.

Portrait 11

I always keep forgetting that I have to submit something once every other day. . . *sigh*  Well, here's a 2 1/2 hour portrait of Hedy Lamarr that was due yesterday.

Portrait 10

A quickie portrait. @___x

Portrait 9.2

This was due on Wed. and I just couldn't find the will to finish it. I also have another one due today. Gotta keep going.  

Portrait 9

Idk what is up with today, but I'm just not feeling it. It was a bit difficult to push through today. Nevertheless here's a portrait line sketch of Eleanor Parker as the Baroness Elsa Schraeder from The Sound of Music.

Portrait 7 and 8

Missed a day and another one is due today. @___x. It's been one crazy week, that's the only excuse I have. 

Portrait 7

Portrait 6

Portrait 6

I was going through my stock photos and found a few portraits from faestock.  I should have pumped up the saturation on this. As I kept telling my friend Jeff when he was working on his "Hero Tree" project, "MOAR BRIGHT COLORS!" I should listen to my own advice next time. xD ahahaha...

Portrait 5

Haven't done a self portrait in a while and I couldn't figure out who to draw/paint next. Now to go off in search for another victim. lol.