Questing Beast - flat color

Decided against saving the Inktober files for the new blog.  Honestly, I might go crazy if I don't start the new blog at a round number (1000) so I will be posting those in the meantime.

For now, here is a flat color pass for the questing beast. 

Sketch Page 958

Today I drew hand owl while on the bus! A lady next to me looked over and then quickly looked away with a huff in disgust.  It was great!

Sketch Page 947 - gryphon recap

 

playing around with color on an old gryphon concept

Moar Illustrashen

Starting out with some flat colors to see where I want this to go.  I think I like the color scheme.  I wanted it to be playful without being over-saturated.  Hopefully it worked out!

Illustration update

I made some changes to the Shadow and Beast concept based upon suggestions. (Shadow and Beast is a tentative title name... titles are hard)  

I think this works!  Will start color soon.

Sketch Pages 880- 881

I refined the first rough black and white paint some more and then completed the other two.  Next step is to pick one and take it to final color!

This is going to be a tough decision.  I think #1 works the best, composition-wise, but there are elements of the others that I think work better.  Like I think I prefer the shadow creature from 3 more.

Do you guys have any ideas?

Let Me See You

Painted up a dragon sketch for fun.

Klymene Winter color passes

Color passes for Klymene's winter coat.  I think I'm leaning toward coats 3 and 4.

AAAAOOOGGGLGOGOL

AOOIOE?  AOGOGOL OO AOAO.  OAUAODGOGO.

Sketch Pages 759-763

 

Sketch Pages 753-758

I finally finished a sketchbook.  Gosh, I had been working on that book since September...  And it didn't have a large amount of pages; it was only 80 pages long.  bleh.  Well, on to the next one!

Sketch Pages 744-746

Doin' some skull studies for my creature design.  I'm playing with the some sort of big cat/warthog combo.  I'll get back to working on the full body design soon.  This creature is supposed to be a swarmer - relatively weak alone but dangerous in a pack- so I'll have to keep that in mind while working on the full body design.  Right now it's looking too predatory and dangerous to be ignorable alone.

Sketch Pages 729-731

Some sketches from friday.  Frog-cannon, thanks for making me feel better

MERRY CHRISTMAS-AGEDDON

Sketch Page 693

A re-draw of an old art piece from last year.  I used this sketch to vent frustrations and disappointments.  Very therapeutic!  Seems like Offering is always my subject for getting rid of "mental poisons".  

I guess in a way it makes sense, considering he is the embodiment of psychological and physical decay.

 

Bonus Infected Mushroom lyrics :P

Here is the old piece from May 2011

Sketch Page 671 Jake the Shark

My step-father has a Bichon-poodle with an underbite.  I always thought that his dog (Jake) looked like a tiny shark so here he is mixed with a tiger shark!

Sketch Pages 649-651

 Wow, I've been doing these daily sketches for over two years now.  Huh.  I began them on August 9th 2010. I feel proud but I also know that I should have waaaaaaay more pages finished than I have now.  Ah well, I don't think I would have drawn so much if it weren't for this blog.

 A redraw of an old dragon design.

 Brainstorming creatures

And a quick study of my roommate's bearded dragon.

Gluff

A gluff is an itty bitty critter that loves to mess with your allergies. It floats in bits of cotton spores watching for some poor, unfortunate human's nose in which to nest.

This is a quick paint of some random sketch.

Sketch Pages 275-278

Creature Speedpaints

Just a quickie.  Having fun with weird coat patterns/color.

The dragon was an even faster speedpaint.  Honestly, I got bored part way through.