I’ve started working on a new illustration – Captain Mothstorm: Freefall.
Here are some thumbnails done in Gimp:

The explorations of an artloader.
This guy is one of the baddies from my comic project. A big impassive henchman type.
May is my month for levelling up my anatomy skills so I’ve been trying out various art study techniques.
This technique involves doing a figure sketch from a photo and then afterwards, sketching in the skeleton. Where my memory get’s a bit patchy I go and look it up. The pelvis is always a bit tricky.
I’ve been doing a load of anatomy studies this week and to cement my learning, I’m designing a Dark Acolyte-Warrior Of Mymosule for my digital comic project.
He’s supposed to be an elite warrior type.
I’ve been studying the incredible art of Fenghua Zhong. One of the things that I’ve learned is that he uses multiple light sources in his scenes.
Here’s a female face study where I’ve attempted multiple light sources. A warmer light coming in from the left of the picture with a cooler light coming in from the right.
I’ve been getting in some digital painting practice on mountain landscapes as I’m planning to put together a picture of a dark temple on a mountain for the first panel of my digital comic.
Here’s the final outcome:
And here are some in progress shots:
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