Knightly

FENG ZHU advised never get obsessed with a game when trying it out in one of his free tutorials( somewhere here http://www.fengzhudesign.com/tutorials.htm).....not possible. Guild Wars 2..I suppose is more addictive because there's people always talking and no one is an ass if you don't know something.
ANDto be honest...there is so much concept art within the damn game you see..so stunning.

..I got inspired to draw more...
So I started this a while back and now just finished it off. Quick try w/o sketch or anything..More just experiment and practice to see what I can do..maybe 2-3h total of work or less. I am so much faster at landscapes lol.

Speedy

It's been a while ...because I am playing wayyyy too much of guild wars 2.
BUT i'm on break and have been drawing everyday ...
3h speed painting. More experimenting with some brushes than anything..

Race On

Decided to do some motion creating in my environments f once...not a lot of action going on in them. Just used the motion blur...maybe not the best result, I need to experiment more.

The Ruins

Yeah, it's been a while since I've competed anything..for all my WIPs..I sort of have no inspiration or I just hate the colour choices..will eventually finish a few of them when I have more time. I've been swamped with having to do poinlessly long essays and doing 100% of the coding for our gaming project...I really rather handle the drawing considering that's what i want to do for life, but oh well.

This is a speed painting..maybe an hour or less..Lonely ruins in an empty field as cities get built high in the background..Or, well, a few towers. I like how it turned out..despite it being a empty I kind of had that in mind.. Either way, it's mostly practice.

WIP

Finally finished the sketching...personal work..
Ahh programming our game is consuming so much of my time..leaves not much time for drawing. Hard to tell what's going on for now..Wanted to make it a convoluted an massively clunky city.

WIP wave

stress-related assignment...more Adobe illustrator...it took me at least 8 hours of re-doing wave shapes until i got this right. T-T ..I need to add one or two figures..Not looking forward to that

Finished!

Great moment when you finish and image...originally was done last week, but I felt it wasn't actually done. Friends are great. Thanks to them I think the image is 100% better. This will be one of my entries to the Rising Stars 2012 contest (environment painting)>.< ..I have been mainly working away creating lots of paintings ..now the final moments to pick and choose. Unfortunately, I still have one more WIP that I also really want to use..Time isn't entirely against me as much as other projects are.

Colour

WIP! Managed to get base colour it in pretty quickly! Getting better at colouring..Before it used to take me an eternity to get the colours just right.
I don't know why, but drawing gothic architecture is so much fun. This is completely made up by me..inspired by Italy, Assassin's Creed, and gothic architecture..

Sketching..

So, yet another WIP...that previous poster hasn't changed all that much so I refuse to post it again (sick of looking at it)
Personal one this time. I kept starting some environments..spending about 2 hours trying to come up with something and nothing, just nothing was coming out. My inspiration might have died out a little. Decided to go back and look at my sketchbooks for inspiration and ran into some renaissance-y architecture details I was drawing for fun..the figure looks not so clothed just for now..

More Flamenco...

Really annoying process...From illustrator, to photoshop, back to illustrator and live trace for the millionth time..Decided i would treat everything as background before I transferred it back to illustrator, otherwise it just turned into an odd ugly mess of shapes on top of the nice yellow part..These are the 2 versions so far...I have no idea exactly how to advance or fix it..

Flamenco in progress

Flamenco further progress..Had to take in layers of illustrator custom brushes and turn them into jpeg, then return them to llustrator and live trace....it shrank the file...Kinda got interesting effects that I didn't have before. I need to up the contrast..change things around and perhaps even simplify...I have a muddy mess so far..

Illustraor Troubles

Not liking adobe illustrator...and we have to use it for project D:
File turned out MASSIVE.....though I kind of like where I am going with this.
Thankfully I know how to fix file size now..

 Theme is Flamenco....I'm also commissioned to do a flamenco-inspired painting..so getting some ideas for that.

SPEEDYY

Sorry for lack of posts! I really should be doing more speed painting to imporve my skills. Thankfully, my skills don't die after almost two weeks...or whenever the last time I went to digitally paint..
So, was going for a cityscape. I haven't exactly done much of an accomplished cityscape...sorry I just happen to plant it in a field...which feels a little strange, but oh well...I actually managed to rescue the details in the end! Good thing for colour balance..everything was even more blue than you see here.

This is also another procrastination piece

WIP

working on a new image....less of a speed thing and more of for a contest..I have maybe 2/5 entries so far done..this would be the 3rd! Using a little bit of texture of a gold doily i randomly once had..scanned it in so the scan is about all I have. Door is art-nouveau inspired..we'll see if this turns out

Forgot about that whole work larger and shrink for sharpness thing until i saved and then shrunk the jpeg wip...so much crisper than my original.

Sewage

Another practice painting..wanted to draw something gloomy and glowing..
Plus add a little fun to it with someone actually trying to fish in a radioactive pond

Alien attempt

So I went for an alien attempt. Deciding to use octopus as a starting point because my friend loves them and..well I think an alioen with tentacles would be awesome.
This is more or less a quick attempt..or should I say a procrastination piece from my actual homework

Pencil, grey copic marker and photoshop. More info here

Experiment

So did a little experimenting today...was lacking inspiration for a bit..decided really needed to draw more..
Had fun with lassoo tool a bit...and attempted to draw a serpent-like creature

Larger here

Isolated City

Well...didn't really do much for 2 days because was totally drained of energy from Fanexpo....
Then just went ahead and started painting today..got this done in maybe 6hours...used some of my photo textures just for the city.

larger here

Escaping Laundry

My obsession with laundry continues. This time it's sinking.
The landscape was the speed painting part...also inspired by Feng Zhu.
Then I felt like it flopped a bit...so I slowed down a little and just attempted to save it..If anything, it was good practice.

Larger here so you can see the details if you wish. The details turned out tiny because I got too caught up zooming in. The fabric and water are probably my greastest achievements here.  

Speed Painting

So last night I really felt down on my skills. Last two digital paintings I started were not coming out any which way I tried, so I went back to watching Feng Zhu's tutorials. Got inspired again and got this donwin 2 hours..It's nothing close to amazing as his work, but it's better than most things I've painted.

Laundry

Latest since a while. Lack of posts...a lot of them.
I realise I really enjoy drawing laundry hanging from ropes. Something so free and human about it I guess. (By the way this was posted a lot earlier on my deviant account..)

Alien

First attempt at alien landscape. Alien powerplant. Larger here

Room for improvement

This is sometimes what my room really does feel like. Masking fluid is probably worse than anything biohazardous. That and overuse of certain markers. This image was my long desire to create a room with its primary light source to be from a window. Larger size can be found here