Dailies Backlog

It's been awhile since my last update. I started trying to be more experimental with my daily sketches. 

Daily #8
12/24/12
Candlelight

Daily #9
12/25/12
Dancer

I drew this for an art collaboration with Johnathan Apilado, but his identity was a secret because it was a Secret Santa thing. I decided to add value myself for fun and it turned into this.

Daily #10
12/26/12

I bored quit this one, then came back later and added some textures to try them out. I still don't particularly like it.

 Daily #11

12/27/12

Juliet

A portrait of Juliet from Lost. She was one of my favorite characters.

 Daily #12

12/28/12

Sun

 Portrait of Sun from Lost. Another favorite of mine. It was originally in color but I was struggling so much I decided to just focus on value.

 Daily #13

12/29/12

Moar Sugar!

For each lemon added to lemonade, you need at least one bag of sugar.

Daily #14

12/30/12

Character design for my character Kayah. I mostly went on memories of tribal clothing (generalization) and didn't really look anything up. She's from a tropical environment. She's usually nude, but I thought I'd design some "family friendly" clothes. Her clothes are more masculine than feminine because she's a hunter, so wearing a skirt would be impractical. The goal for her top was something functional that would support and restrain her breasts rather than arbitrary modesty. 

 Daily #15

12/31/12

Character design for my character Aesane. I was trying to incorporate elements from ancient Greece and Persia in her design. She's Kayah's foil. I was trying to use a similar silhouette to what she wore when I designed her as a teenager. Not sure if I want her shorts to fit better or be poofy. 

Daily #16
1/1/13

Started feeling a little insecure about my painting skills so I started painting environments from photos. I thought about posting my reference but I wasn't trying to copy them, so comparing them wouldn't be very productive.

Daily #17
1/2/13

Daily #18
1/3/13

Cool light/warm shadows is hard to pull off. 

Daily #19
1/4/13

A portrait from a photo. I don't know the model's name.

Daily #20
1/5/13
Ashley Spinelli

Little bit of fan art of an aged up Spinelli from Recess. Not sure where it came from.

Daily #21
1/6/13
Juliet

Another portrait of Lost's Juliet. I anted to try drawing her instead of painting.

Daily #22
1/7/13

Daily #23
1/8/13

Your Move

Your move, kitty cat!

Daily #24
1/9/13

I wanted to think more about lighting than local color, so I painted a forest lit by violet light.

Daily #25
1/10/13

I'd like to have an emotion/story in mind for these environments in the future. It's hard not to get bogged down in the technical aspects of painting and to remember story.

Daily #7

Daily #7

12/23/12

Fishbowl

Fishbowls don't work underwater.

Daily #6

Daily #6
12/22/12

Downpour

Get under my umbrella-ella-ella 'ey 'ey 'ey

Daily Sketches #1-5

At long last! An update! No school work yet, but I've started doing a "quick" sketch painting every day. Ideally I'd post them daily, and hopefully will for now on. But first, a still life of a fork and a spoon!

This is a fork and a spoon. Obviously, my crowning achievement in metallic rendering. 

 Daily #1
12/15/12

A child being attacked by a rainbow tentacle monster. Can't think of a better way to kick off this daily habit.

Daily #2 

12/18/12

Moonlit

My sister's character. I think her name is Epona. I think she has blue hair. Excellent work me!

Daily #3

12/19/12
Goaticorn

I can't draw horses. :(

Bonus conversation during this one:
Me: What color should the goat be?
BF: I think a whitish-brown tint...
Me: GREEN!
BF: Green? That's just silly!
Me:  You tell me to draw a goat with a horn and bird wings... and you draw the line at it being green?
BF: Yes! A green goat is ridiculous!

Daily #4
12/20/12

Fitcher's Feathered Bird

Inspired from a scene in "Fitcher's Bird", a Grimm fairytale.

Daily #5

12/21/12

Luminance

Epona again. This time I remembered her hair color. But I forgot I meant to give her something glowy.  This character is clearly cursed and should be avoided in the future.

Yeah, you may have noticed that there's a little bit of a gap between when I did the first daily and the second. And to that, I say shut up.