My first freelance job!

I am so excited to inform you that I have gotten my first freelance job. I am happy to be working with a small company called The Phoenix Companies, LLC who has other companies underneath the parent company. This is all work outside of my current job and work is done at home in my off time. I am near completion on one logo. I am so excited and thankful. I will be posting the final work soon. :)

Balsa

I just finished watching Moribito and I have to say it was a fantastic show! Here are some little sketchy sketches I did tonight. I like drawing characters it makes drawing the anatomy a lot more fun well, at least for me. :P

Painting techniques with Zac Retz

My next tutorial that I am going to be working on is from Zac Retz from the Society of Visual Storytelling. It's been big gaps in between my tutorials and for that I am sorry. But, good news is I am learning a lot from these couple hour tutorial videos. This is my fourth video.
Zac Retz is a young freelance illustrator. He graduated in 2012 which is two years before I did. He's gone far with his life already. He works for ReelFX in Santa Monica, CA as a visual development artist. He has a very painted look to his art. He loves drawing couples and monsters.
In this tutorial, he will be demonstrating how he goes about painting. So far, I'm about 10 minutes in. I will post more soon.

Here's what he's making.

I want to practice doing some landscape. Here's my drawing.

Here's the beginning of his process. He makes shape in paint and does this by separating the layers by values using the pen tool. I started blocking in mine. This was a bit different because I'm used to atmospheric perspective where it goes darker to lighter but, depending on the lighting that may change or if there are mountains in the background. So, interesting stuff. 

Percedal of Sadly Grove

Here's Percedal finally colored! I tried out a new style from Jake Parker. It was kind of challenging but, I like it. I can't wait to work on more.

Work in Progress

I hope you all had a Merry Christmas! It's been busy this time of year with the holidays. I did manage to work a little on this today and I hope to finish it soon.

 

 

Percedal

 

I finally made some more time and I did some line work for the sketch I was planning on working on. I am hoping to finish Evangelyne's line work and color them using Jake Parker's tutorial video. :) I hope to get to work on that soon.

Evangelyne and Percedal

I watched Jake Parker's tutorial and it was a lot of fun. It's interesting how each artist uses Photoshop differently. From now on, I am going to try and use the artist's techniques from the tutorials and maybe to try putting out a piece of artwork a week. If I do it that way I should have plenty of time to work with my busy schedules. Here's some sketches that I am preparing to paint. I am doing some sketches of Percedal and Evangelyne from the French television show Wakfu. I am trying to work on my anatomy as well and drawing characters from other shows helps me a lot as well as drawing things from life.

Illustration Techniques with Jake Parker!

This week I am going to be studying some illustration techniques with Jake Parker who is a visual development artist a Blue Sky Studios!  Jake has worked on movies such as Horton Hears a Who! , Ice Age Dawn of the Dinosaurs, and Epic. Here's some of his work! This first piece is the picture that he is going to be showing his process on. I'm excited to dive in!

Illustration techniques with Brooke Boynton Hughes

This week I am studying some illustration techniques from Brooke Boynton Hughes. I've been doing some of the Society of Visual Storytelling courses when I'm not too busy at work. She has been an inspiration to me as an artist. She faced a similar struggle where she struggled with human anatomy and she overcame it with lots of practice so she will be a cool artist to learn from. Here's some of her work. She primarily works traditionally and then uses Adobe Photoshop tools to enhance her color and textures.

11-4-15-Beast Boy

I've been drawing some of my favorite characters from tv shows to help me get better at drawing the anatomy as well as studying some of my anatomy books. So, I could not help but, start wanting to draw teen titans characters. :) Beast boy is my absolute favorite character in that show. I finally am getting back around to doing digital work and hopefully soon some paintings.

11-2-15- Robin

I miss the Teen Titans show! :) I could not help but draw some of the characters again. It will also help me with my anatomy.

10-28-15-Out and About

10-27-15-Bulbasaur

10-26-15-Figure Study

10-23-15-Ori

Doodled Ori from "Ori and the Blind Forest" today. :)

10-22-15-Birds and Turtles

10-21-15- Male Face Studies

10-20-15-Shadow

10-19-15-Motorcycle Otter

10-16-15-Back Muscle Studies

Here's my last sketch of the week and then it's on to the weekend.