More female face practice. Here I’ve had a go at painting Arwen from Lord Of The Rings.
Female Face Digital Painting: Arwen
Head Construction Sketching Part 2
I’ve been doing some more female head construction training.
Trying different angles:
I like the nose on these ones:
Head Construction Sketches Part 1
I’ve been knuckling down and learning head construction.
They say that one of the best ways to really improve at drawing something is to draw 100 of them.
Well 11 down, 89 to go!
Female Face Digital Painting: Yanadia
I moved on from sketching to a full digital painting.
This has also been an opportunity for me to design another one of my digital comic characters: Yanadia. She doesn’t feature in the current project but will appear in a future instalment.
Female Face Sketching Part 3
Here are the female faces from the last 2 nights. I’ve been experimenting with different face shapes. I like the chin on the last one.
Female Face Sketching Part 2
More female faces tonight.
The thing with people’s faces is this: you make one wrong move and it looks nothing like them!
Female Face Sketching Practice Part 1
Trying to get better at female faces.
I’m going to do as many as I can over the next few weeks.
Painting Practice: Elf Maiden Face With Light Rays
I’m switching over to character design practice for a while now (starting off with female faces).
In this one I wanted to learn how be a bit more dramatic with lighting, hence the shaft of light on her face.
Line sketch: 
Blocking in colours: 
Changed my mind about the colours: 
Adding in more detail and changing the hairstyle: 
Adding in the shaft of light:
Her mouth looks a bit odd to me so I think I might hunt down some mouth drawing exercises.
Flintlock Pistol Digital Painting Part 2
OK so now I’ve got a flintlock pistol under my belt (not literally but you know what I mean). Hopefully that’ll help me do steampunk weaponry for my digital comic project.
In case you’re interested, I used this image as a reference: http://gunsofold.com/images/washington_flintlock.jpg
Flintlock Pistol Digital Painting Part 1
In order to learn how to paint steampunk pistols, I thought I’d start with having a go at a flintlock pistol.
- Blocking in the wood base colour:
- Adding a bit of varnish:
- Blocking in the steel and the brass colours:
- Adding in the dark steel accents:
