Jacko

This piece suffered from a mental fight within me. At first it was starting to look like a super-villian with a costume idea. I didn't want it to go that way since my Ego wanted to keep it to a jackolantern theme. So you can see half of it as a villain in the making with the other half trying to go for a jacko vein to it. Now its a twisted mess of either version.

Little did I realise that costumes/superheros/villains go well with halloween. So I should have been more faithful with the original idea in the first place!

Punkin' Pumpkins Pillaging Pennsylvania

Continuing with the Jack'o'lantern theme for the annoys. Each drawing took about an hour and a half or so. Slightly edited on Photoshop.

Muro Drawings

Using a pallette of limited colours and the whole '8 bit' goodness teaches us to work with less to create more. Learning with new ways of thinking or broadening your thinking despite these limitations set before you. That's what muros are for me.

These are all screenshots of the muros I've drawn over the last few days at deviantart. I thought, what the hell ,why not post them all on the blog to keep track of them? That way, it's a good way to see how far they've progressed over time. Already seeing some repetitions here with the creepy blood-splattered theme. =P

In a way, muros remind me of "Mario Paint". =S

Hellowe'en Time again

For this experiment I took an earlier drawing and started messing around with the transform tool. First it starts with cloning the batch o' mini-heads on the left, then another batch beside it, and another on top of that. Rotated them all to get the right angles, etc. I kept thinking "okay, that's enough...time for bed" which of course got delayed into a "oh wait, what if I cloned this piece here? and put it here? or wait, how about here instead? OoOooh..." and on and on for 2 more hours. Then I covered it by drawing on top of it, to reconnect severed lines, fix corrections wherever necessary as best as I can to 'hide' the cloned pieces. Except for the "arm" which is really part of the croco's jaw. =P

Of course I can just easily draw it all from scratch, but with this type of experiment it can open up new doors of seeing.

The surprise for me comes with the discovery of the croco head in its belly. I originally wanted to make a big opened stomach-mouth similar to Bishamon from Darkstalkers. The rest just fell away to reveal more croco features as I went along.

Hunger calls: Updated WIP

Started working on the merman type of creature by smudging all the lines to get all warmed up with the process. After I have done that, I went over with a paintbrush at 25% opacity to smooth it out even more. So far so good.

Some of the facial features are getting a makeover. You'll notice the cheekbone area being changed which at this point is still not finalised. Hopefully it doesn't deviate too much from the original drawing.

Original drawing here

Hellowe'en Time!

Remember kids, say NO! to bio(technology) foods! They just might eat you instead.

Actually I might keep up with this theme and do a jackolantern sketch every day from now on until Hallowe'en. Or maybe forever if it's too much fun.

Yeah...

Sometimes no matter how bad it gets, I keep going with it for the sake of finishing it and to make it look as best as I can. Although I really do need to put some more effort into the hands. =/

The one on the left was the first drawing of the day so I just went with whatever comes to mind. No judgements whatsoever. It's best to save the critical process for the editing phase. If it ever gets that far...

Those two are not meant to be interacting with each other.