Trees, Carpets... and Fish

Yeah, that's it, kinda about it.


Some days, good. Some days, bad. I started out with a sketch that I grew quite fond off. But when I coloured it, everything went awry. I called it quits after an hour or two, for it seemed a damned waste to keep screwing up like that. Later I made a.. well, what is it, really? ;) Something strange, that was. I've also never used colours like these. It's a bit odd, but somehow I like it.













This is actually the only part I liked about the colour version, but just because the energy is still there, and the green is so nice and thick next to the cloth.
















Spent too much time on it, probably. And I could spend many more hours on it too. It's unsketched and spawned just from doodling. I made a second blog where I'll keep my 'official' things, like a sort of portfolio, and this was intended to be backdrop for the header. But whaddaya know, everything went from there. No restrictions, no rules for practice, just quickly go wild on things (also partly because I wasn't really supposed to be drawing at all, but writing) and this is what I ended up with after a little over an hour. What it is? Whelp, I've found out that that's different for everyone.



On a sidenote, music plug of today: DeVotchKa.
It's a mix between mexican Mariachi, Spinvis, V.a.s.t, Muse, a bit of Unkle, and then some polish polka and old european folk. It's a wonderful blend, although you may want to see past the Johnny Cash like drunken voice of the singer.

Mountain Bridge

Red yesterday, blue today. Darkness yesterday, brightness today. More atmospheric training, which resulted today in the making of a cold canyon, barren save for two scouting vehicles to make the contrast of the place bigger. I think I need more work on textures.



Sketch.


















Sketch with the light added in.



















Refined the sketch and added the colour.

















The final bit, for now. I still want more textures, but I don't want to kill the drawing.

Firepool

I've never been very good with titles..

Today I wanted to train in thumbnail environments. I'd make a very tiny but clear B&W drawing, and then several, to train lighting, composition etc. But once I'd penned down the first one in a minute, it became interesting enough (for me) to continue. Added more black, more white, more rocks, more light, and so on. Still was basic. Now I've been having some trouble converting a black and white drawing into colour. In fact, I had a huge amount of trouble converting things over. So when I was doing this one, I figured I'd have to have a go at it sometime and do it well enough for once so I could 'flow' from sketch to a basic environment in full colour.

Anyway.. here's what I did. Kinda. I lost a few steps because.. well.. I'm using just one layer in photoshop :) So some things got lost because I keep removing and painting new things.


This is the black and white version. It's already quite elaborate at this point, but it basically shows where I wanted the light to be, and what would be causing that light. A teensy crater.. or something.







Funky, innit? I figured I'd try this for my missing key to go from black and white into colour. I decided the middle main color for the light and simply adjusted the black and white into that. With it, I kinda removed the light, so I had to rebuild that into there, but now I had a colour base so it would make things easier rather than to plunk a color down on a greyscale. Whoo! I should have thought of this before. I know it's probably a bit of cheating, and there must be more noble and sophisticated ways, but heck... argh, I can only do so much..



Woops.. different, eh? Nyeah.. this is where I skipped many steps to show it. I added more space to the right, added the light I wanted, removed and changed the rocks in front. In all, it went from tiny crater to a lake with something hot and a mountain range in the back. At this point, I'm only going to dink around with the details..




And this is what I ended up with. About... 6 hours later. Still a bit rough here and there, but I have to put it away now. So, how is it?

That dreaded first post

Thanks to a certain Swedish dj, who reminds me time and time again to bloody start posting, I figured I just should. I don't like posting unfinished things. I don't like posting scribbles. I know I've made this blog to get rid of that stupid habit and to just.. post.

All these files are training.. Short sketches, quick doodles and tests, and they all have just one layer, and a 4-step-brush-history to work with. Thats because that if I screw up, I have to fix it by hand instead of going easy by doing many 'undo's'.

So, this is what I doodled today. It's a quick sketch, for some sort of technological futuristic research center/energy base/core. Very sketchy. Am not at all pleased with the spikes up top. Am trying to train in more toned down colors..






One of the experiments of yesterday, went too far on the layer adjusting..
This one is also unfinished, I wanted to make a big rocky wall on the right with a horseman in silhouette in front, but failed at the composition. I'll probably go back to this one soon.




This one I call Dragoon, heh. I have a strange method of naming.. I wanted to make a dragon made of clouds and dreams, sleeping away in an endless landscape. It's a nice thought, and started as a monochrome colour practive. Perhaps I'm going to refine this one too, were it not for my total lack of ability to draw dragons. (unfortunately, since I quite like them)







edit:: Bigger version of the blue research one: http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y79/Anduir/interstellarcopy.jpg

Here we go

A long time ago, many artists made blogs and blogged all their scribbles, doodles, tests and excercises, as well as full and complete works of art.

I'm going to leave it at just the doodles, scribbles, excercises and tests and perhaps in the end, works in progress.

./wave