Figure drawing studies

 Been doing quite a bit of figure studies these days. Learning from Andrew loomis' book figure drawing as well as doing quickposes and arranging sketchnights for our local artists. It's very encouraging to see steady improvement in my lines and general posture skills.

Here are some of the sketches I did as a morning warmup. All of these were done in 1 minute or less

Big bird in a small cage

I'm finally calling this piece done! There are still parts I'd love to do over now that I now how to do it better but I love it how it is now.

Been working on and off for a good few weeks/months(?) and it has been a lovely voyage through frustration, excitement and fuzzy feelings when all the parts came together. Very excited to get this out!

Image on the left is the initial sketch I made to get the tone and feel right. I really wanted a warm and mysterious setting for this to work. So I started with all warm colors and gradually built up the color scheme after the sketch. Through feedback I realised it needed a bit of balance so I added more cyan and an off screen blue light on the left. This gave some more gravitas to the existing warm color scheme.



Credit where credit is due to one of my favourite bands out there: Patrick Watson to inspire me with his song 'big bird in a small cage'   And my friend Zouhayer Gharbi for relentless feedback and encouragement. Also the Dutch concept artist facebook group which has been really helpful :)

Banner hero pose exploration

Was asked to do a banner for a client. Some exploration for the dynamic we were going to use. Very fun to do!

Gravity falls line art studies

 I absolutely love the art style Gravity falls created. Decided to study their use of lines arcs and thickness. Very interesting to study!

I plan on coloring these at some point. 

Cloud atlas studies (continued)

 After a break on these studies to work on my lines (traditional and figure drawing) I've come back to daily quickstudies again. Every frame gets a study! :)

Updated everyday I have the ability to draw, which is generally everyday but sunday.

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Portrait value studies

 I like doing these value studies in between other work. It takes very little knowledge and more looking really close at the shapes and details of the faces. It's a relaxing thing for me :)

First one is from a advertisement for the movie palm trees in the snow and I have no idea where I found the other references unfortunately.

Revisiting the Division

I really liked how the division handled the atmosphere. I didn't play the game for very long but enjoyed playing through all the missions with my friend intensely. Just wanted to revisit it and do some atmosphere impressions really quickly

Game concept art

Concepts for a game I've been working on for the past 6 months or so. It's a pretty ambitious game in design and we're really excited about how it will turn out. Expect more from this project in due time