Christmas drawing

I'm in between computers this year, unfortunately, and didn't get to my usual Christmas illustrations. I did manage one on my new Cintiq Companion, though, depicting my adorable niece Emma doing what she does best.

And I'm honored to be the one who facilitated the great artist, Emma Jain's, first drawing!

More homework for Rad Sechrist's class

Having a tough time staying on-model even for my own designs, unfortunately. Also, it's been a while since I've done some Eva fanart.

Some redesigns for a boxing gym owner/coach. Used to box, himself, and a bit stubborn in temperament.

Rad Sechrist class HW WK2

Breaking down the structure of existing characters and posing them ourselves.

Rad Sechrist class HW WK1

So I'm taking James Sechrist's character design class, and he recently gave critiques on our first week's assignment: drawing expressions.

Here's mine:

I had a screenshot of Mr. Sechrist's critiques, but wasn't sure how he felt about me basically sharing content that I was paying for. Rest assured, these drawings are ugly, and there are tons of things wrong with them.

more character designs

Working on more character designs. Gleaning pointers from Rad Sechrist videos and influences from Fabien Mense. And that tall boxer, he's definitely Bert.

Life Drawing at Mr Tramps

Chun Li vs Cammy

Once again couldn't bring myself to work the outlines into the paint :) Also I'm noticing a few of my recent pieces have been sharing a similar color scheme... like this one and this one. I think I'll call this my blue and magenta period.

I've been watching a couple videos on digital painting and picking up a few tricks here and there. I'm working flatter (fewer layers - still not as flat as they do in the videos) and using a base background color that I color over on another layer, not at full opacity. This makes it a lot easier to experiment with the HSL sliders and quickly change the color scheme, by tying the whole piece together.

Here are the thumbnail and outline stages:

Watermelon farmers

Husband and wife character designs for a comic idea. Happy with how these turned out, though the woman may be a bit too heavily influenced by an artist I've recently been obsessed with....
Fortunately, I like the guy's design more, except I'm not sure about the legs, and I'm certainly open to suggestions if anyone has a better eye for character design.

I'm wondering if their height difference is going to be a problem for staging...?

Cartoons

Before I dropped out of my digital painting class for being a bit basic, I spent a week doing a sketch every day. A good practice that I don't have the discipline or creativity for, but I got a couple doodles out of it. Still trying to play with style, and using pen for the first time.

It looks okay, but I like the old school anime look of Fabien Mense more. One of the things I dislike most about anime is the copy-paste character designs, where the only real difference between all the characters is hairstyle, color, and clothes. There's still enough play with shape with Mense for some personality to come through, plus I'm just partial thanks to being raised on Osamu Tezuka's Unico and the like.