Elrodeon's Tome of Drawings

[Elrodeon]

Hi there! I'm Elrodeon. I started a blog last year in the hopes of posting regularly.. However that failed miserably! Good start I know. Despite that I still wish to keep a blog/journal of some kind in hopes of tracking my own progress for myself and anyone else who'd care to look. I also hope to get better with the aid of people's criticism on this forum.
Anyways I'll post some of my most recent paintings down below.

The picture of the red haired man above is one of my own characters called Kaito Kago, he's a martial artist living in a dystopian England in the year 2059.

I'm hoping some people will at least recognise this character and she definitely isn't my own! Warchief of the Horde and Banshee Queen Sylvanas Windrunner ~

Assuming you got this far, thanks for checking out my stuff <3 I really appreciate it and would definitely welcome any criticism that you could throw my way! However neither of the pieces above are finished yet. I'll be sure to post back here when I make any new pieces or finish these!

[Elrodeon]

So today is my actual upload day. I upload on my deviantArt over here every Friday https://elrodeon.deviantart.com/art/Crucible-Squad-WIP-717935243
Today I uploaded this picture here.

It's a painting I've made for a friend for some of his original characters. They're a part of the same universe as the character in my previous post: Kaito Kago. These teenagers are all a part of a squad called Crucible squad, which was created to rid the world of 'evil' cultists. However they were manipulated by a rather controlling leader who had very strong world views.

I started off with a rough sketch of the characters. My friend had already run me down on their different personalities, quirks, appearances and mannerisms. Therefore I had a decent idea on what to do for each one. We also spoke about poses for each character so fortunately for me a lot of work was already done for me in terms of coming up with poses, appearances and positioning.

So by now I had already began reworking into the central character Angela and gave her a stronger, cleaner outline. Along with this I wanted to work on my colouring/shading and so I also attempted to colour her. However despite this it was clear I needed more practice and proper teaching/techniques to use.
Therefore I took a break to research a few different shading techniques before moving on.

firstly I changed Angela's hairstyle as my friend told me he'd prefer her to not have the large pony tail as he wasn't too keen on the look, therefore I simply removed it. After that I began to get to work on my colouring and decided on two light sources first. I chose both of them to be coming from below on opposite sides of the canvas and so I tried to reflect this as best as I could with my shading...I am somewhat pleased with the result, I believe I could've done better however by this point I really just wanted to move on with the piece and onto the next character, therefore I left it how it was.
To further this I wasn't entirely happy with the background either so I went ahead and changed that.

next time I hope to have the character to Angela's left and right completely finished, those two being called Verme and Luca respectively.

[Elrodeon]

So I haven't been able to do too much recently. Despite this I still have some things done and instead of uploading my progress of the previous picture I wanted to try and make another one - potentially working on a bit more of a dynamic pose than my usual.
I started off getting the pose down; using this as a reference:

Wooh! Superhero landing!

So then on top of that I began to work touch it all up and make that rough drawing look like a proper person. Fortunately since this is my own original character I know what he looks like and so designing him wasn't an issue.

Since this was only a quick drawing to work on my poses I wasn't too concerned about too many details within the picture like the shoes. However I do need to do a few studies on proper boots and shoes as I do struggle with getting them right

Then finally, I added a quick background - once again not focusing too much on it as I wanted this to be a quick little piece. On top of that I added some base colours down onto my character before briefly added a bit of ambient lighting coming off of the magical fumes around him, along with the magic in his hand.
Overall I'm happy with the piece I was able to work with a pose I wasn't entirely comfortable with at first. I also feel that in this piece I stayed true to my self and didn't try to fit into another style, which I am also happy about. However, I could definitely go back and add more to this drawing in terms of details, line, tone and shading and might revisit it at a later point.