Minor Update for January 2018

Allos again! It seemed time to finally (finally) put out an update. Work’s been a bit tough lately — I blame the holidays — and I’ve been trying to find freelance jobs that will allow me to spend more time doing what I enjoy. I also took an unneeded break from making artwork, namely because I could not find any good inspiration for things I wanted to draw. Well, things appear to be looking up in that regard; I was able to work on a number of things that expanded my horizons.

In any case, on to the art!

Exhumation

 Can be found on my DeviantArt, here.

This was another of those lunch-time sketches that I’ve been working on for roughly a month. It was inspired by videos of exhumations. I don’t know why, but I was intrigued by the way rainwater would seep into a burial vault and remain trapped there, slowly flooding the casket and leaving the body in a grim soup… That’s disgusting, heh!

In any case, this was the piece that served as my warm-up for getting back into art. I needed to draw something. I think the shaky start is visible in the quality of the piece; the dark areas have little definition and the wrinkles don’t make a whole lot of sense.  I did put a lot more work into the body beneath than is actually visible, but I lost that detail when I “flooded” the casket. I suppose there’s a bit of irony there.

At’thania Atka (Color Version)

 Can be found on my DeviantArt, here.

O.K. To be fair, this isn’t a new piece. Rather, it’s an old one that I decided to color digitally. However, it does demonstrate my first real leap into working with color on a piece of my finished artwork.

 See that gallery? Finally, some color!

It took about four hours. I used Krita to multiply in the color layers, as per the advice of numerous artists on YouTube. I also colored Magwalbi — as can be seen in that picture of my gallery — but don’t feel like I did as good of a job with it. I’ll redraw that dog one of these days, and give him a more professional style…

Slinkster

 Also can be found on my DeviantArt, here.

And this is what I spent a good few hours working on last night: an image of my pet corn snake. I did this in ballpoint pen, as per the suggestion of my brother. He really likes the look of my ink work, and I haven’t worked in the medium in quite a while. I started with pencil guidelines, as always, and completed the shading and outlines in pen. The ferns in the background, with their variable hatching took by far the longest out of anything in this drawing. In the end, I kind of like the effect they produced. What do you guys think?

That’s it for this update. I am working on some more artwork to the side of this that I hope to document here, soon. I also have a new composition method that I’ve been meaning to try out and demonstrate for a friend — I believe I’m something along the order of four months late on that one, heh!