I started doing these with a specific theme in mind, but then I lost track of that and started dicking around. Originally they were all going to be Celtic/Irish gods and heroes! That.. didn’t happen. Oops.
The plan was Scott as Cú Chulainn, Stiles as Lugh/Lugus & Bilé, Peter as Ogmios/Ogma, Lydia as Danu, and Allison as Badb and/or Flidais. By the time I got to Derek, I’d already lost track of myself, so he never got one. Sorry, dude! Stiles, Scott, and Peter were the only ones who retained any of that business.
Jackson wasn’t going to be drawn at all unless I went and ahead drew the puppies, because if I drew in Jackson, I’d mess with the pattern and multiples of 3, so nooope. He’s not coming back in s3 anyways, so whatever (though I am sort of tempted to draw the puppies as Genii Cucullati for shits and giggles.)
I’ll probably edit this photoset later with transparent bg versions of these, but I am done with looking at them for now fjdskhjkfds
Fuck Yeah Tip'
Young Loki; green-eyed, mist-born
ice-spear in one hand
stag-hunting come dawn
streak of shade on a bone-pale land.
Preview of my Teen Wolf design; metallic silver ink, of course! lol lost the c in school in my resizing. Brilliant!
“You know, Clint’s hands may look hard and tired, but I have only ever known them as soft and warm.
And he seems to like to fall asleep on his stomach.
And he has this ridiculous habit of stopping for coffee everywhere we go.
And anytime we need an alias, he likes using names from old Hitchcock films.
And sometimes he doesn’t want to talk, but it almost feels like we can have a whole conversation in silence.
But he can always make me smile, even when I don’t want to, and I always find myself doing the same for him.
Most of all, he likes me to hold him when he is in pain.
But no matter how much pain he is in, he will always do what he can to take away mine. “
Companion piece to this
But no silly comic for this one..! But I can imagine she is talking to Pepper? IDk
The end.
This painting was done for Illest of Ill 2011. The painting didn’t get in but it was fun as hell! I put together my process just to share the experience.
Thumbnails
In this case I started traditionally drawing thumbnails on every piece of paper I could find. The thumbnails were all smaller than a inch each, this gives me the ability to cover a lot of ground extremely fast. My idea for the project was to have a character with their animal companion and I took it from there. At this point there is no character design, no reference, nothing besides the shapes of the elements I planned on using. I pushed these 1 inch thumbnails until the composition was perfect for me… using things like tails, vines and cracks in the rocks to bring my eye around the composition.
Draw over
This was a technique I leaned at Digital Domain over the summer. Basically, in Photoshop throw a white layer on top of your drawing at a low opacity and you got yourself some tracing paper. I blew my 1 inch thumbnail up to about 15 inches and drew directly on top of it, roughly fleshing out the shapes I made with the pencil. Trying to give the characters somewhat of a pose while staying within the shape I gave them in the thumbnail stage. Continue adding tracing paper over and over until you settle on a decent final drawing.
Painting
I use the hard round brush in mostly all of my paintings. Im not a fan of searching through a billion random brushes for texture… It really slows me down and I don’t know how to use them that well. My process is more of an Alla Prima painterly approach. I have my Hard Round Brush equipped with pressure sensitive size jitter and opacity jitter to give me a butt load of control. With this one brush I can imitate any texture and any edge. I don’t use the soft round brush because it dictates how soft my edges are and EVERY edge is different and unique in its own way.
Once I have my drawing done I will change the color of the lines to a dark warm red, Just so I don’t pick up any muddy black. Under the line layer I will start painting with color. I tried this website that gives you a color scheme for the first time and it went pretty well. I grabbed the colors from the website and pushed them towards the colors I needed for a tree, a rock or a person etc…Color is relative by the way… Once my values are reading I make a new layer on top of the lines and RENDER AWAYYYYYYY
At this point the only reference I had was for the female character. I had been painting so much of this stuff from work I didn’t bother getting reference for anything. Besides stripe patterns that is**
For me the painting process is just working edges and filling the world with everything you imagine would be there. Constantly questioning everything about your painting and bringing it to a stage where you have all the answers.
This painting took 20-30 hours. Hope you enjoy.
Freedom is so close. I’ll be officially done with everything by the end of July. And if all goes well, I’ll be graduating in August. Fingers crossed. I can’t bloody wait to get out of here.
This week, I went to life drawing for the first time in months. It was fucking fantastic.
Model was Daniel. Pieces (all done with soft pastels):
- 15 minute poses.
- Left: 10 min pose. Right: 30 sec poses.
- Top row: one continuous line (1 min), normal sketch (1 min) / Bottom row: sketches with my opposite hand (2 min each).
- 5 minute poses. Sneaky penis.
Melbournians: I highly recommend you drop by Life Drawing at No Vacancy Gallery, Tuesdays & Wednesdays @ 6.30pm. It’s the most chill class ever. :)
