New paintings from this week, the plan was to make 2 images one pretty and alluring, the other all "monster gonna eat you" But I wound up drawing two poses so they are both just alluring right now.

I am having fun smashing the two styles together, I just need to do more to make them a bit more or less synchronized in my eyes.

Really loving this project.

So here are the thumbnails developed during stream today. Any thoughts or preferences on these guys?

Here is the first Imposter all monstery! I will have the next one up soon.

Second imposter, having fun with these. ^^

Doing master paintings into robots, great combination of master and materials study.

and here is a link to the video process of it. I am rather enjoying video editing right now too, scratches my tech itch nicely. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S6NROiOOMDU

Next in the series of masters turned roboto.

Saturn devouring his child by Rubens >> Industrial Lathe Saturn devouring his iPad.

This one had too much flesh that had to turn robot to really preserve the study outside of the pallet and the study part. I am keeping that in mind for the future.

video for the pearl earring

So this is the most recent study painting turned fun, Caravaggio this time, a painter I rather adore. Such a fun way to consider light and dark in his work. Full gamut from I think Lead white to some burnt black in his paint. Trying to keep the colors and composition true to the original, sadly the paint strokes didn't work out. I need to keep working on a nice oil brush for procreate.

New process video, I enjoy making these and watching my own work. I think that it is helping me think about the process and what I can do to speed up.

Random DnD character! Half-elf blood-hunter ghosthunter that has a crowbar and always carries a jar of blood and has a double sword. It was such a fun collection of madness (as many characters are) put forward, sorting through and eliminating things to just get a good image was a fun process. I am going to do some more of these.

An experiment with pushing darks, I think that looking back on it now I pushed too far and it needs some larger swatches of light and color. I am thinking that the cloak would do it and will probably rework it in 2 weeks with fresh eyes.

So I have been experimenting with concept art recently, trying to figure out what I really love to do finally... and I am still not decided. Happily I know that I love to draw and paint, always have so I probably will continue to love it until I shed the mortal shell.

Concept work is fun, since its just raw idea generation, and I don't mind throwing things I have made in the trash, nor do I mind getting negative comments. It's also a part of any illustration.

This one was for the Aquatic moon monthly challenge, Making World of Warcraft weapons, I spent way too much time playing that game.

And then here is the spread from ArtStations Space Age concept challenge, very fun to make some aliens and their home world. I am just posting the lineup here, since every character got their own sheet.

Makes me feel like I did very little this month, but there are a lot of little designs and a lot of sketches for these little concepts. That's just how it goes right?

Back to painting! I wanted to make some prop art, but I still wanted to make a full illustration. So anyways here is where I wound up.

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I am always trying to get better control of composition and story. and I think this one went over pretty well. Even though it is a simple necklace design (I had the idea of card art and magic in my head while doing this one) and a very simple sex appeal hook, I wanted to include some more story elements in this image, hence the lighting choices and the bits of vampire in there.

Pretty fun and I like the final image. Time to get to work on the next thing!

I can also see that I strayed a bit too far into the dark reds, the artifact banding is pretty intense in parts of the image. Ahh well, I am probably the only person that will notice it much at all. I wonder at what stage that was introduced to the image between procreate and the web.