Success and failure.

Ok so digital painting is a hell of a lot harder then I thought it would be. Being a colourist for comics, I figured this would be an easy transition. Well, I figured wrong. So here’s the new game plan. I’m going to chronicle my learning curve and then into the Iced Jem project. Every step I take in learning how to digitally paint,  create PS brushes for different textures and some step by steps for different paintings.

It may be awhile till I post something, so here is one of the last pictures I’ve done to tide you over..

The over used muse

So taking a quick break from the Iced Jam project, I sketched up this pic of Scud the Disposable Assassin in photoshop. I’ll be digitally painting this one up. God I’m glad he’s back.

Deamon heads, Deamon heads, rolly polly Deamon heads

So to set the stage, the song starts out with a beat. It sounds like there are a lot of drummers on stage while this is going on. So I’ve broken it down into two groups. Greater deamons and Lesser deamons. So here’s 4 quick studies on the heads of the Deamon drummers. Basically they will all look the same. Same features, but their horns and certain facial features will separate them. I haven’t completely settled on these yet. I’m not sure if I want 3 or 4 large drummers on stage yet or not. Hair and horns are going to be the big factor in what changes their appearance. Their design is a nod to the devil from Legend and the balrog from Lord of the Rings.

Colour studies coming next.

New posts

Ok so there’s been a lack of posts thus far. I’m working on something. Promise. And what i’m going to be posting here will be something of a decent sized project and the pay off and all the steps will be posted here.

So what is this decent sized project. Well P. Craig Russell kinda started this off. He did a couple graphic novels based on Wagner’s Operas. Now that’s an interesting idea. The story structure and layout was based not only on the words or lyrics of the opera but also the music.

This is an interesting concept to me. Allowing sound to dictate visuals. Now a long time ago I found this song Iced Jam by µ-Ziq. This song invoked an interesting story in my head. If you get a chance grab the full song from some where. It’s a good song and it will also so be pivotal for you to understand this project. But anyway, so my idea is to jot down this story, based on the music of the song. I say story, but really it is more like a music a video, with out the animation. So this will be put out in a comic format.

What I’ll be posting will be character designs, objects, and the scenes where this all will take place. I’ll also be doing something slightly different then what I’m used to and will be digitally painting this whole thing.

So keep a weathered eye on the horizon, I’ll be posting some some pencil sketches shortly and there will be more to come.

First art post.

Here is my first sketch post. This is a digital painting taken from a photograph. I finally managed to get some convincing eyes out of this one. I was happy with it.

First post.

Well well well.. what do we have here? This will be my sketch blog. I will post all the little drawings and junk that I do through out the year. Maybe a couple a week, maybe one a month. Which ever it is, keep looking cause there’s bound to be at least one cool thing on here.