Jedi

Funeral

Speedpaint scene. Minimal reference. Loosely inspired by the funeral scene in Pamela Dean's "The Hidden Land".

So You Want To Be A Wizard

Roughs for the next kids' porkfolio piece:

This month I'm working on a comic buffer so not much non-comic art is going on.

CHOW - Warrior Alice

Redesigning Alice in Wonderland as a roller derby girl.

Un Lun Dun - Version 2

A different approach to Un-London:

Did it over the weekend. I think the cartoony approach works better for me? I don't know.

Speed Scenes - Owl's Well That Ends Well

The opening scene from Donna Andrews's "Owl's Well That Ends Well".

Mermaid

Speed Scenes - Bonehunters

An excerpt from one of the Malazan books. Not entirely happy with the central figure (I think it's Apsalar) but hey -- there's only so much you can do with a speed painting and no ref.

Speed Scenes - Merchant

Not from a book this time. Just a scene I was thinking of.

Speed Scenes

Since my last digital painting didn't turn out so well I'm taking my husband's advice and doing some speed-paintings setting up scenes from books. It feels like I'm falling down on the roughs, so the roughs have to improve. I'm trying to improve depth and lighting.

Gregor & Bennis from Jane Haddam's fabulous mystery series:

The Science of Cute

Sketched while reading a post on cute things on CA.

Little Monsters

Some little monster designs, mostly based on the same shape. I was trying to make a lead character for a kids' comic:

Fashion Plate

Man, it feels like I've done nothing but comics for the past month. Oh wait, that's because except for a few greeting card designs I HAVE done nothing but comics. SO MANY COMICS.

Today I just needed to do something different.

Textures from random free-texture sites on the web. I'm not sure I'm any good with collage but this was reasonably fun. Next time I'll have to do the old-fashioned kind with glue sticks and little bits of paper everywhere.