Bloated Ankheg

Blending different types - regular crayons, coloured pencils, ballpoint black pen and markers. 

No fine lines here! Just studying the color blending and natural forms....and yes, you are right, this is another D&D creature. I found the book very interesting, to this day, I still have not finished reading the entire hardbound book. 
  
---- I've observed other students/artist inside the Royal Ontario Museum (otherwise known as The ROM to most Torontonians), sketching away and doing the same thing. 

Piece of FRINGE tidbit, Massive Dynamics headquarters was shot at The ROM. I recognized the front facade right away and the interior of Nina's office is a part of the new addition.


****Hmmm....add to my wish list this year, renew my membership, been a while since I've gone down for a visit.****

Unintended Abstractions

Learning curves...obviously was not paying attention to my exposures, this originally came out under-exposed. The sketch was of an Arakocra, a D&D creature that I had tried to sketch using simple pencil and crayons that you would buy at a local convenience/dollar store. 

There are days when I would just sit and doodle to see what I come up with. I chanced on one of these D&D books lying around that had creatures from A to Z. 

For fun, I decided to diverge away from human faces and concentrate more on natural-looking creatures. Needed practice with the wrist anyway...to make the long story short, I decided to fool around in the post-edit prior to loading on blog. 

This is what came out:

Of Lines and Perspective

Pencil and Charcoal  - I attempted to sketch this portion on a Rodney Matthews book, practicing on lines and perspectives. It took 6-8 hours after I was satisfied that my study session is passable. The original photo that I took was a bit dark so I had to brighten the image as some of the details were missing.

 

 

Kenpachi - Homage

Zaraki Kenpachi - one of the characters in "BLEACH". Highly suggest and recommend it if you're into anime and comic books. Awesome characters and intricate plots. Beautiful lines and each have their own uniqueness -  have a lot of respect for the artists that created them.

This time I used the usual Stabilo finepoint coloured pens then acrylic paint on beige-coloured cartolina just to see what effect it would give the type of paper I'm using, once it dries.

Needless to say, this is the end result. I was trying to bring out his rough personality through the expression on his face.

Hope I did his character justice, what  do you think? DC

Blue Kimono

Oil Pastel on Paper - Started out as a pencil sketch and decided to experiment with this nice blue shade. Used a simple technical pencil that takes 0.5 refills and art eraser to spread out the colours. Camera exposure not that great - conditions are indoor, low light and had to mount DSLR on a tripod. Shaky hands will produce blurred picture obviously....hahaha.....DC