illustration + design
Really trying to get into a habit of doing a couple of illustrations a month in 16:9 format. Always trying to push my storytelling skills higher and higher.
Besides that watching sentai shows at lunch have gotten me into a mood lately. I am constantly drawing dueling character poses before or after point of impact. Two in particular I am using OC’s designed by Rocketboi for his new IP. The other a YA version of a Power Ranger designed by Li.Cree.
Just a few illustrations finished up lately. I was reminded the other day just how great the OP to Record of Lodoss is and wanted to draw a couple of the characters in modern clothing. Recently got around to playing Control for my PS4 it’s a pure visual treat. I made a couple of fan illustrations after finishing the game.
This months character design challenge was doctors/nurses. I went with a doctor who uses his fist to battle viruses.
I want to do more animation but time isn’t infinite so here is a mid-jumpkick pose. I used Marco Nelcor’s sentai character as the reference.
Now that I feel pretty comfortable with Procreate I am doing some more dynamic layouts with the grid and perspective tools. I also want to try using a couple of modeling tools I have on iPad to do rough layouts for scenes. Late night I have been watching random sentai series so I have been doing a number of sentai characters and poses that I need to get around to clean-up and posting.
For April’s character design challenge Norse Goddess Hel and her Hellhound. Also a couple of drawings for draw this in your style challenges. Lately I have been trying to focus more on color saturation and experimenting with a looser style. Spending so much time with Procreate I really feel more and more comfortable as time goes on.
Mostly these days trying to push a couple of styles in Procreate and see what I can do. My monthly character design challenge illustration this month’s topic: Brazil Carnival. The other illustration was for a draw this in your style challenge. I never get tired seeing other artists interpretations of someone’s style.
Just a couple of recent illustrations done in Procreate and a reference sketch in my at work sketchbook.
The last couple of weeks I have been experimenting with a watercolor brush set for Procreate. Besides that I am really trying to get a consistent workflow out of Procreate. Every week I feel a little bit more comfortable with the small UI features. I of course found the time to complete an illustration for last months character design challenge topic cormorant fishing.
The last couple of weeks have been a bit busy. I did do a couple of notebook sketches. Also a couple of Procreate fashion illustrations.
First post of the New Year, I spent the end of the year getting my art book together 121 pages. Of course I created an end of the year holiday card for friends and family. Last but not least for this months character design challenge I created a character for Axolotl Adventurer.
During holiday vacation I did animation to start the New Year off with.
All of my animations for 2019 a compilation.
This is going to be last blog post for 2019. It’s been quite a year learned a lot about different style processes and a few new programs. As always I am excited to see where it all goes for the New Year. I finished a couple more weekend model reference studies and tried my hands at some animation using the new toolset in Procreate version 5.
For the rest of the year I plan on doing some back-ups, clean-ups and layout for my annual sketchbook. It’s still one of my favorite parts of the design process…Vol. 5 coming soon.
