Weekly # 4 robuts

Pick an animal/insect/fish whatever and make it into a robot or cyborg, pretty straight forward. Try to get em in by Friday the 5th, if not we may extend it for another week, we'll see. Have fun!

New Subject?

Just wondering if a new topic was going to be decided upon.

Monster week

The monster I drew is death! Drawn on Pentalic 9x12 pen paper with a copic multiliner 0.5 pen

with C3, T5, T6 and T8 copic markers

Better later than never.

Behold ze corpse vyrm. I'd like to finish this picture or atleast redo it someday.

Week: 3 Monster

LATE!!! ugh... I'll get the hang of this one of these days...
went for a creepy grimacing spikey insect thingy because thats what seemed to want to ge drawn when i sat down to draw.

work in progress. Lack of scanner access

I have not forgotten. Will post pic sunday night monday morningish.

Week 3: monsters

Whipped up a valentines day monster in about an hour or so cuz i'm lame and procrastinated. He absorbs mushy love feelings leaving people bitter and lifeless then eats their hearts. om nom nom!

resources

here are a few resources that i've gathered over time that have been a big help.

http://www.posemaniacs.com/pose/thirtysecond.html

http://characterdesigns.com/index.php?sitepage=photosets

http://www.colourlovers.com/

http://drawn.ca/

http://ffffound.com/?offset=50&

http://www.urbansketchers.com/

http://welovetypography.com/2/

http://www.fubiz.net/

and of course... best photo reference site ever

http://www.flickr.com/

Belated (and incomplete!) Week 2 Submission - Rumplestiltskin

Hey guys, I'm Trev. Sorry I didn't contribute anything for Week 1. I started this Rumplestiltskin piece for Week 2 with the best of intentions, but between packing to move and illustrating a not-terribly-successful webcomic, I didn't get a chance to finish it in time.

But yeah, as you can see, we've got ol' Rumpy stealing the millworker's daughter's baby after stitching her lips shut with golden thread to keep her from saying his name. I might revisit this at a later time. As it is, a weekly piece like this is a lot to add to my schedule, so don't expect a ton of contributions from me.

Peace.

WEEK #3 monsters

Much like justin, i sadly have nothing to contribute for week #2. But i've been tasked with coming up with this weeks topic. I wanna see monsters. Anything from traditional movie style to out of this world designs. The goal; make em scary!

Submission fail.

Ugh, sorry about not posting this week guys, I never got a chance to work on my piece, I will prolly make it a backburner submission and work on it between other pieces and get it posted when I can. Looking foreward to this next weeks topic to get one done and submitted on time.

Weekly #2 Grim Fairy Tale

Hey there little red riding hood, what a big knife you have...

Ok so i started off loving this piece and as time wen on i got less and less enchanted with it. I think my problem was i didn't spend enough time on the initial sketch getting mostly everything right. I didn't use enough reference on the clothing and as a result it came out a little bland in my opinion, and lastly i used dodge to try and correct some lighting and using the standard dodge soft brush is a bad idea and i think it just detracted from my initial more stylized "dirty" painting.

On that note, i would really like to encourage everyone to give some more feedback on peoples stuff, I've been slacking myself but i'm going to get on it a little more starting this week, for me personally i want my work torn to shreds so if you see anything wrong with any of my stuff, or maybe see something that you would have done different i'd love to hear it, thats the whole point of this art blog and as a result i think we'll all grow as artists if we can keep critiques good and constructive. Thanks guys, looking forward to everyones weeklys!

Next week

Ok so i forgot to mention that DeathToVideodrome will be picking the next weekly. Hopefully people will get their stuff up tonight so we can get an early start tomorrow.

Work in progress

Hey guys, Im working on a piece with my buddy Leo and thought I would post the work in progress. Feel free to tell me what you think. Criticism is always appreciated.

Bored at work+Win Paint=Old school awesome!

This is what I get paid to not get caught doing...

Weekly Concept #2 Grimm's Classic Fairy Tales

Alright guys and gals, second week! Week 1 had some solid entries and I would love to see us keep up that momentum! We botched the first week in a few little ways though, this week let's try to get into a smoother rythem, let's try to have all of our pieces submitted by midnight on Thursday so that we can have Friday be fresh for the new topic.
An idea for a series of designs I've been wanting to play around with is Grimm's Classic Fairy Tales, we all know them, we all love them, probably, and I think we should all do our own pieces based on them, or othe childrens fables, nursery rhymes, etc.
Little Red eating a banquet of stuffed Wolf? Court necromancer turn out to be the only one to "put" Humpty Dumpty "back together"? Hansel ünd Gretel as angelic choir childer singing at the feet of the lord? However you want to interperate it. DO IT!

Week 1 - wind god

I know this is a little last minute but here it is. Wind god. Started as earth in my head but ended up being wind to round out the picture set.

Week 1: Water Spirit

Poor quality Pic of a water elemental or spirit, first time using a new pen that I wasn't really happy with which actually ended up bleeding through ): onto another picture of mine D: so we'll go ahead and throw that pen in the useless box and come back to it some other day. Man, I really need to get a photoshop to get some color into my pieces; some great submissions up so far. Keep it up guys.

Week 1: Element God

Quick sketch up for a fire god. The initial sketch took about 10-15 min and the Photoshop coloring took about 30-45. I was hoping to get a lot more into the piece but my week turned out to be more busy than I had expected. Good luck to all!

Weekly #1 Element god

So this piece turned out alot better than i was expecting, I chose the earth element and this is the resulting god i came up with . all in all about 6 hours of work in photoshop and an hour of sketching in my sketchbook for the initial drawing. I used alot of shadow of colossus for reference, also looked at a few shots of shale from dragon age to get the design for the crystals.

Aural Inspiration

What Kind of music do you guys and gals like to listen to while you're working on your art or being creative? What do you find is the best kind of music to create to? Do you listen to specific music? Or just the same music you like to listen to most of the time? Or do you not like to listen to music at all? What do you find helps you stay in the artistic mindset?