Sketch page 955 further drakengard wyvern progress

Drakengard wyvern progress!  yeah... I changed it again.  The face was giving my trouble (because I made it up) so now I'm making it match up with a komodo dragon structure a bit more.  I think my color choices have improved since with all of these color studies.

here is the previous version

Sketch Page 947 - gryphon recap

 

playing around with color on an old gryphon concept

Sketch Page 944 - Golden Eagle

A golden eagle study.  I bought some books about color theory yesterday so it's time for some reading and application.  Here's a majestic pokey-beaked birb. The books have helped a little bit already.  Obviously, I have a long way to go but I think this bird is showing progress compared to my other studies..?

The books are "Fill your Oil Paintings with Light & Color" by Kevin Macpherson  (I'm basing this study on lessons from that book)

and "Color and Light" by James Gurney

Sketch Page 943 - Duck Park

Not much time to paint tonight so here is a quick value study of a ref photo from a park close to where i live. 

Sketch Page 942 - tiger

Tiger study

Sketch Page 935 - Corgis!

A quick paint for a Sketch Dailies topic on Twitter.

I'd been feeling out-of-sorts and down all day so I jammed out to some Madeon and painted up some dancing corgis to help my self feel better.  It worked!  Its difficult to remain down when you're painting corgis :3

Sketch Page 934

Hippo - digital study

Sketch Page 930 - bulbasaur!

Sketch Daily prompt.  

perhaps bulbasaur is  playing a little too rough

Drakengard progress - 2

 I made more progress on the Drakengard-style Dragon.  (I suppose technically it's a wyvern).

Looking at it again the wyvern's anatomy was very off so my progress for today was revising the design.  

First step: Drawing in new linework

Here it is, in its current state.  Chest is much larger.  Leg is more balanced.  Shrank down his head.

A size comparison for convenience sake

Sketch Page 918

quick dragon sketch for tonight
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Just painting up some dragons to get back into the swing of things!

Drakengard-Style

Trying out some paint ideas.

I've been on a huge Drakengard kick lately.  It's a very weird, very cool game with DRAGONS with crazy horns and tails.  I like it a lot. :)

I'm listening to the NieR (Drakengard's successor) soundtrack right now and trying not to cry because it is beautiful.  Seriously, go listen to it.

Shadow and Beast update

Big Shadow beast update.  It's getting close to being done, I think.  Getting away from it for a while helped me figure out what colors I want to use.

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?

Sketch Page 878 and 879

working on an illustration.  wip

Sketch Page 877 - Bound 2

A demon, loosely based upon an old design.  20 minute sketch.

Slowly but surely I'm making my way to page 900

Sketch Page 876

Quick horse study

Sketch Page 874

Elephant study.  I noticed on my last painting- the one of Luna- it looks like she is SUPER saturated on other computers.  Maybe I need to recalibrate my laptop screen.  Anyway, I tried to compensate for it in this study.  We'll see!

Sketch Page 873- Luna the Wanderer

2014, Luna.

This is a re-color / re-imagining of a character that a good friend gave to me.  It had been quite a while since I last drew this wolfy girl.  It was a ton of fun visiting this design again while playing around with a texture brush.  It was also reassuring to see how much I've improved since the last time I drew her.  

2007, the first time I drew Luna.

BIG difference.  I feel a lot better about what I've done so far, even if there is a loooooong way to go, still.

Sketch Page 866 - Gryphon Repaint

 New

Old

I couldn't think of what to paint and I'm really tired of studies so I grabbed an old painting from two years ago in April to repaint.  The old one was 'stylized' to the point that its anatomy was completely broken so for the new one I heavily referenced photos online.  It definitely helped and I also found some points that I need to reference/learn about more such as wings, paws, bird heads...  ok everything, really.