Jimmy

Another TAWmonkey piece. 'Jimmy' was the theme a few weeks ago. Some recent health problems delayed me a bit. I had trouble with this one. 'Jimmy' is a difficult theme, but I went with the fact that jimmy is another word for a crowbar.

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Sorry I Forgot You

Okay, this one I rushed a lot. Tried out some faster and sketchier lines. I like something about it, but still needs work. Anyway, it's another TAWmonkey challenge: 'I'm sorry I forgot you'. I'll let you figure the story out yourself :D

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Frère Jacques

Dormez-vous?

TAWmonkey once again. Theme this time round was 'Children's Songs'. I decided on the French nursery melody 'Frère Jacques'. In the song he is supposed to ring the morning bells but he's fast asleep.

Sidenote: I had a different concept as well, where Jacques was a vampire hunter/killer who would fight the creatures of the night with a magically religious bell in a country where night had lasted hundreds of years. It would have been a phony movie poster with the tagline 'morning bells are ringing'. Thinking I might do something with this some day. Happy I went the other way, though :D

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Haunted

Another evening sketch.

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Evening Sketch

Just for fun :D

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Time Traveler

Again for TAW-monkey, theme: 'Time Traveler' Far too late did I realize how bad it looks from far away. Kind of a rushed piece so I don't mind too much.

Interesting note: I loved the show 'Seven Days' when I was younger (still do, when I catch it here and there), so I made the top of the cane a (simplified) chronosphere.

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Konnichiwa!

Another taw monkey painting, this time the theme was 'face in the crowd'. I like to think he's trying to blend into an old monster movie. Or maybe he's there for the sights.

Anyway, great fun :D

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Cupcake Miracle

For a school related themed challenge.

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Barbarian

Another sketch.

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Late-night Sketches

Just to keep my hands warm and my mind going. Pencils.

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Red Poala

'The Red Poala is roughly the size of a grown man's head and is known to be completely still when being watched. This is the female of the species and is decidedly brown in color. The males, however, sport a vibrant red fur, explaining the name. Males are hard to find, though, as they only move about during mating season and hide for the rest of the year to protect their fur from sunlight.'

This was fun :D

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More Black and Whites

Just having a good time with values right now.

Muscle

The Flame

Mummy!

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Warm Ups

Some warm ups from last week.

Moth

Brute

Mink

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Been a While

So, the CGHUB challenge... Fairytales Re-imagined.

I chose Little Red Ridinghood. Still happy with my idea, though I realize it doesn't stray too far from the original. Might work on it further some day.

Anyway, didn't leave myself enough time to paint it, spending a lot more time on the idea and concepting - which was fun. Went back and forth on the composition, too. Don't even get me started on values :D

So I'm not entirely happy with how it turned out, but here it is:

Some concepts:

Overalll, a good experience. I also did some warm-up paintings that I'm quite happy with. I'll share those in another post.

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New Carrot in Town

So, there's this challenge going on over at CGHUB. More on it later. Anyway, I'll be painting for the challenge, and realized that it's been a while since I've done anything more than a speedpaint, so decided to do this practice piece, trying to get back into it all. Happy enough with the result :D

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Boxboy

Character design done completely within Maya using a limited tool set.

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More Sketches + Hulk

So yeah, more sketches and a quick paint-over of one from the previous post. Hulk splash!

Looks great if you squint.

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Green Monkey

An other monkey. Tried out the deviantART muro thing.

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Monkeys

Last week we had a color class at school and we painted with acrylics. The topic for some of our paintings was 'monkeys', and I've been into drawing monkeys ever since. Here are some done with colored pencils.

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Sketchbook Sketches

I've been having a lot of fun drawing in my sketchbook lately, so here are some sketches.

So yeah. I'm having a good time.

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Retired

A late night sketch.

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Sketches

Just a few digital sketches from the other night. Been exploring proportion and anatomy lately. Lots more in my sketchbook - one of these days I'll put some of them up here.

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The Saint of Spades

Realized it'd been a whole month since my last post here, so thought I'd better update.

First of all, a gouache painting. The Saint of Spades.

I've had the sketch for this lying around for at least a year. Finally manned up and painted it over.

One of the reasons for my lack of updates might be that I've been very much into my school assignments - they're just a lot of fun :D So I thought I'd post some of my recent exercises here.

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Baron von Milchbard

Looking at the name now, it kinda sucks, but I have no alternatives.

Anyway, for a contest over at Sketchoholic. Topic was 'ugly with style'.

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Missing Pieces

Another TAW-monkey piece.

The theme was 'Missing Pieces'. The connection to that theme kinda got more and more obscured as I went, but I still like the end result - was fun to do :D

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Mr. Pickle

Keeping it cool :D

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Gymnastic Heist

Again for the weekly school thing.

Couldn't get the face right, so I put in a black bar - ended up liking that :D

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Kung Fu Pig

Enter the Pork!

For a sketchoholic contest, Sketchoholics Anonymous: Kung Fu Animal.

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The Boy Who Cried Wolf

For a weekly sketch challenge at school.

Hope you find it amusing :D

Also, here's a sketch for the next challenge: 'Gymnastic Heist'

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Lefty Loves You

I've been drawing hands a lot lately, for school - I finally think I'm getting somewhere :D

Anyway, did this hand in Painter, because it feels like forever since I've done anything from scratch with that program. Had fun with the colors :D

I think the heart makes it less gruesome - don't you?

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Bulbs

This is a warm-up assignment from last week for school. We had to design two light bulbs, one good, one bad.

I had fun with this. Hope you like 'em :D

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Ghostly Gent

Part Photoshop, part Painter - all ghost :D

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Rotary-Man and a Robot

Hey, so this week at school we were introduced to Photoshop and After Effects. I've had worked with Photoshop a few times before, but still learned a lot and had even more fun. Here's an assignment (a superhero) and a personal thing (a robot) to further explore what we were learning. Masks are super useful :D

We were free to do our own superhero so I did Rotary-Man, a character I'm playing around with every now and then. He's a former sailor with a powerful (possibly alien) device embedded in his chest. The device allows him to dial various traits and attributes either up or down, such as strength, speed, vision, etc.

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