Photoshop Sketch - Night Elf Female

Another of my WoW profile pic ideas.  More on the way.

Original pencil sketch, cleaned up and coloured in Photoshop and Illustrator.

Photoshop Sketch - Bob the Mage

If you ever meet me online in a game, my name is usually Bob, and I'm usually a spell caster, and whenever possible, I'm a nerdy gnome.  I gave myself a side project of making my own profile picture for Steam, and I came up with this.  I had so much fun that I might do some other portraits in my spare time.  Enjoy!

Original pencil sketch, cleaned and coloured in Photoshop and Illustrator.

Brutallo

I haven't been able to update my blog in so long, since I've been so busy mostly with the group film I'm working on, also with being sick as I am while I'm writing this. :(

But this post is special.

A good friend of mine recently passed away. I didn't know him for very long, and I've never even seen him before, but all the same, in the short time I knew him, we were good friends. Adam Dellacecca, whom I knew as Brutallo when I played World of Warcraft with him, was someone I always enjoyed being with and talking to, even if it was always through a microphone in front of my computer. He mentioned to me that he liked my artwork, and that he wanted me to make a color caricature of him, but he couldn't send me his photo, so I made this drawing of his character instead, since it is the way I knew him best, anyway.

It's a shame that he won't be able to see this, but I know that this is something that he would have wanted. I sent the original drawing to his family as a sympathy gift, so now all I have is this digital scan. I hope you enjoy seeing it as much as I enjoyed making it, and may Adam rest in peace, knowing he is remembered very fondly.



Pencil crayon and pastel on cardboard.

I, Draenei

Pastels are fun. So is World of Warcraft (which I can't afford to play, due to time and money while I'm in school). I thought I'd try something out with my pastels sitting on my desk, and I tried draenei-ifying myself. Hopefully one day I'll become good at pastels, but for now, here it is for your amusement. Enjoy!



Nupastel on cardboard.

Goodbye to gouache...?

In the 1.5 years I got to know gouache, there's still so much about it I don't know, so much we could learn about each other...oh well, time to move on, I guess. Here are the tonal studies and colour thumbnails for my final painting assignment for the semester. Maybe gouache and I will work with each other again in the future...


Pencil on paper.



Gouache on watercolour paper.



Gouache on watercolour paper.

Alive and Empty - Colourized Version

Quick colour sketches of my kitchen layout in a previous post. I think gouache is starting to warm up to me, but my class will soon be going digital (Photoshop). Just when gouache and I were starting to get to know each other...



Gouache on Watercolour paper.

Alive and Empty

Yet another set of layout tonal sketches for my painting class. This one was an interior study, so I thought I'd do something a bit more...comfortable. Anyway, here they are to behold and enjoy. More to follow...




Pencil on printer paper

In faded colour...

More progress on my background design stuff. These are simple colour ideas I had for my design that I'll decide from for the final look. Colour is faded, but they gave me a few ideas. Someday we'll get along, gouache...



Gouache on watercolour paper.

Looks like it, feels like it...

Here's a couple of samples of texture studies I did in gouache for my painting class. My teacher liked these ones, as did I, so I hope you do too!



Wood Grain



Cobblestone (in gloomy weather)

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Tree Bark

Desert Planet

Trapped, all alone on a desolate world with no one to turn to, and no sign of hope in sight, what will our little blue friend do? (gouache on Peterboro PK5 Illustration Board)



Night fast approaches...