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.