It's been a while

FIRST AND FOREMOST: 

???SHOULD I CONTINUE BLOGSPOT OR MOVE TO TUMBLR ???

Hello, It's been a while I have been busy with my corporate foreign international travel agent job. Luckily it's from home so when I get off of work I've started a painting routine and it feels great. I was in an art rut for a while but meanwhile I started making music, writing stories, instant film photography, sewing, and basically all things art related. 

On another note i'll explain my drawings in order from top to bottom.

 One and Two are only thumbnails and nothing final. They were from a scene I was inspired by for Tim Burton's newest film. I just wanted to play with the "swimming in an abandoned ship and breathe underwater" thing. Illustration 3 is actually a warm up I did the day before One and Two. I blew the dust off of my cintiq for good old fashioned stress relief. It was to help me play with brushes and styles for a story i'm writing which has nothing to do with the drawing itself. The final one is once again for Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, like One and Two, this one was done because I loved the concept of Olive's boots keeping her grounded so that she would sink down to her ship or keep her from floating away. Also being stuck in the past and immortal. All fun ideas that were floating in my head and I had to get out and post mistakes and all. 

Something is lovely about raw work.

No credit

Typically when I'm in an art rut I have to mimic a digital painting to see if I've gotten any better and I sure have! I've only been practicing on and off for a year and I'm self taught, so I'm a little proud. The original is by Helen Chen. Also the actual one I did is like 5 feet wide haha. Super large. I Couldn't be happier though. I'm ready to apply my skill to my own work now. Possibly gonna re work this old Bran drawing and make it more like the one up above. Also should I move to tumblr? Would any one follow me?

Speed Painting

Did a 30 minute speed painting in photoshop with some new brushes including one of Dice Tsutsumi's. I did it with no thumbnail, just followed the color and it lead to a pterodactyl because I was thinking of The Good Dinosaur.

Been a while...

A FKA Twigs album cover painting i'm slowly working on. A comic I made in 10 minutes at 3 am a few weeks back. Also a piece of Feast concept art I recreated in 20 minutes. A Quick light study of my bedroom. Then some random doodle and  a painting in my sketchbook.

Sketch Portrait

Played around with style this morning. Not 100% satisfied with it but I didn't feel like continuing.

Slowly but surely

Still trying to learn digital art. I want to learn a lot more before I go to college in August!

Phony

I was inspired by Brittney Lee for the millionth time and mimicked the cover to her book coming out. I'm slowly getting the hang of digital art. I had a lot of fun making this. One I start college in the fall I am forcing myself to not mimic anymore.

The Stages

I drew for over 9 hours today and I hated everything I drew. So when I started to draw something on how much I hate digital drawing I made something I loved, haha. Digital drawing is the hardest thing for me. I just want to be good at it.

Cardinal

Just a doodle. I needed to draw badly and this came out of nowhere.

Photoshop girls

The first one was a warm up for number 3, which is a drawing of Grimes from her Genesis music video. Just some sketches really. These were done in about 2 minutes each. Number three took like 4 minutes because it were much more realistic

Quick update

I worked on this for about 10 minutes and got bored. Toothless is cute so I thought I'd share. Sorry for the picture quality of my iPad.