4-Colour Study Redux

This was another 4-colour study for homework. This time I picked red, green, blue and orange to be my complementary pairs.



I think I kinda half-assed this one. I can't remember why. I think it was really cold in the sunroom that day. The oranges turned out much better than last time, though, so maybe there's hope yet!

Female Sith

Female Sith design for CHOW (Character of the Week on ConceptArt.org).



On the one hand, too bad I didn't get a chance to do some proper work on this. On the other hand, they had a ton of entries and mine probably would have been cut.

4-Colour Study

In-class still life study. We had to pick two pairs of complemetary colours (I picked red, green, yellow and violet) and paint the still life we'd assembled.



Those purple things flopping about are my purple driving gloves.

I'm not sure what I think about this. Way more brightly coloured than I'd like, perhaps? But I don't dislike it.

Abstract

We were supposed to do a balanced grid abstract based on the rough Master Study (mine was Cha-u-Kao, posted a few days ago).



Yeah, not really my thing either. I thought we were going to finish the abstract in class, so I just made a bunch of rectangles and then had to occupy myself for 2 hours. Not that I don't like Mondrian, because I do, but I think I'd have to practice a lot more to make something that someone might hang on their wall.

And speaking of Mondrian, I must get one of these!

Unibrow Brewery

Unibroue makes my favourite beer, but if I had a brewery it would be Unibrow!

Cha-u-Kao

We were supposed to do a (very, very simple) master's study for homework. I ended up picking Cha-u-Kao by Henry Toulouse-Lautrec, partly because it's appealing, and partly because we weren't supposed to use the Internet for reference and all I had was a book on Post-Impressionism.

So here's my "copy":



And here's a scan of the original:

Baba Yaga

This week's CHOW was Baba Yaga. Once again, no time to finish.

Li'l Red

Update

Still managing to do some drawing every day! I can't scan or photograph my paintings every day, though, so I'm keeping a list and backdating everything. I'm doing a better job of it this year than last year, even if just barely.

Mab

Honestly, this one's not worth seeing yet. Needs a serious dose of photoreference.

It's half-inspired by the Titania pics, and half-inspired by the Dresden Files books.

Sorrel and Castus

Titania Concepts

This week's CHOW was Queen Titania. Had no time to do the finished picture, but I did come up with a few designs (click for bigger):



I've got a partial watercolour of that last one, I ought to finish it one of these days.

Primary Colours

In-class exercise, painting using the three primary colours:



I think this was one of my failures. It was actually pretty nice to begin with, but I got caught up in trying to capture the fact that the flower and red leaves were backlit and seemed to be glowing. Gorgeous effect! But so difficult to paint. I decided it needed more contrast and blobbed on a dark gray background. I spent too much time messing with the background and didn't get around to refining the vase and the cloth.

Complementary Colours

This was what I was supposed to be doing instead of that 3-colour study! Homework, two complementary colours (yellow and violet). The white is just the underlying gesso. I love how that jug turned out! The oranges... not so much.

Chaosine Characters

I'm trying to work up a plot for a Planescape-esque comic about a bunch of adventurers/staff at a magical university. In a place where the students accidentally call up Elder Gods on a regular basis, there has to be a team in place to clean up the mess. A team with union backing and really, really good health benefits.



We've got Opium (the one with the rat tail) who's a warrior and occasional helpdesk jockey, Enne (the grinning one with horns) who's a priestess of Chaos, Hedera (the medusa) who's their long-suffering supervisor, the guy with the sword is on a rival staff team and everyone else is faculty.

If I could only get more than a couple scenes written up I'd be set.

Panel of the Week

All I ever do on Mondays and Tuesdays is comics.

Parkour

Working on this pic:



Wanted to do something super-hero-esque.

Today was Very Boring

Three-Colour Study

Actually, it was supposed to be another two-colour study, but the instructor wasn't quite quick enough with the instructions and I was a little too quick with the paint.



The class material list said to bring ultramarine, raw sienna and burnt sienna to class. I didn't own any raw sienna so I had to go out and buy some (along with all those greens and purples for the last study). When we started painting in class, the instructor said that we could use ultramarine, burnt sienna and a little bit of orange. I didn't have any orange, so I decided to use the raw sienna that I bought. I started painting the background blue, and then the instructor said "you'll need to use the white of the paper". Of course by that time I had covered my whole board in blue paint.

Anyway, it turned out very nice in the end, but I was the only one to use raw sienna so the other students accused me of cheating (as a joke -- we all laughed about it) and started calling me Raw Sienna. So now that's my artist name! Also possibly my porn star name and hippie name, if I ever decide to take up a life that requires a pseudonym.

I had to mess around with this painting quite a bit in Photoshop, because there was too much light coming in from the east. It's quite dark, but the colours are a little more subtle in person.

Tentacles

I had this dream where tentacles came out of my heart. It was horrible. Then I realized that the tentacles were just hungry, so I gave them a piece of cheese. The tentacles ate the cheese and then everything was okay. I walked around with a bunch of tentacles waving happily at everyone.

That woman up there is not me, but it was such a great dream I had to record it.