Creature 03

And here is the final for the test, with some color pencil to brighten the brights and darken the darks, with a little white gouache to pop the highlights...on to the REAL one!

Creature 02

Here is the wash and rough details for the Creature drawing I did last Friday. These watercolor sticks are pretty cool, and they make a perfect texture for this characters rough skin. I used a few different techniques for this; drew right on the paper with the stick, and then pulled the paint out with water. I also left the stick in the water and used the colored water more traditionally as a stain, and then used the brush to draw off the stick and into the water, just like I would a blob of tube paint. Pretty fun.

Well...it looks like Blogger is being a little fussy today, I was going to post the final test image as well...maybe later.

Creature 01

I got some watercolor sticks to try out, sent to me from a great artist named Che Lopez, who I went to school with, who (in addition to all his other work) runs art classes at Daniel Smith up in the Seattle area -

http://artofche.com/Site/Home.html

I've been gearing up to do a Creature from the Black Lagoon piece, and since I just got these (and need a break from the digital stuff) I figured why not now?


Here's a couple of loose sketches with the watercolor over top. On the right, I'm just trying to get a feel with blending and adding multiple colors, and on the left I want to see what I can do to work over top the paint with some colored pencils.


Here's a more properly set up drawing to paint over, still in the testing phase, so nothing will be too tight at this point.

All right, off to do a bit of painting...!

Little busy right now...

...here's the Ravage from the Soundwave pic.

Concept Art - APC 04

And now the grayscale for the APC. A bit more detail added, but I already (in my head) redesigned the front wheels to remove the bracing and beef up the interior wheel, keeping the tires the same thickness.

Concept Art - APC 03

Here's the drawing for the APC, you can see I used the set up to base this version on.

Botcon 2

In a word...glorious.

I had a quick meeting with Hasbro that made my heart sing. I can say no more.

But just you wait...