Peacock portrait

Did some watercolour using photos I’ve taken from a trip awhile ago and used them together to make a group portrait of peacocks, first time doing one with feathers but like how they look so far. 

The grass I thought to use my brush to make soft texture, same for the rough feathers for the smaller birds and leave some white areas where they have lighter colours

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New comic

Been working on a comic for awhile and planned out ideas for characters and story arcs, thought to start out for a pilot issue and see what others would think of it. It is the reboot version of the New Genesis idea but decided to go for an open world setting but a similar story and races, earth will be mentioned as a group of humans or a possible new race evolved after long periods of time away from earth, some would consider it a myth or unable to find their ancestral home world like the other three races brought to the alien planet they inhabit. I will inform you all following my blog when the first issue is up. So in the meantime here are the sneak peaks of pages and a cover I’m working on.

Updats: Water colour portraits.

Been doing some painting over the summer and uploading some now here to show what I've been doing. So apologies for the delay and here's what I've been done.

Basically taken some snapshots of animals like the peacocks and thought to make a flock together using photos of some I've taken. Wanting to get the grass look right and tapped it to make patterns and different shades of green. Working on the feathers and will update the finished version of the portrait.

  

The next one I thought to make a wolf and originally inspired by House Start's emblem using colours and make the fur and background a winter theme. Worked on the shading and go a small frame for it to show how it looks after printing a copy for display.

Demon swordsman and Tank mech (working progress)

so been doing some sketches for certain characters and maybe some advice or help be nice while working on them. based on the original sketches I did as a kid and wanting to redesign them.

One of the characters I drew was inspired by General Grievous from the original clone wars animated movie, and wanting it to look somewhat like a demonic swordsman with multi arms. So for the idea for him be to change the swords or redesign them as some sort of trophies he claimed from previous battles he won and drew some sort of tank mech and gave it a tail (not sure why lol) but for the new version will look better without it. So will work on them more like the others I will upload shortly.

Tank robot

Demon swordsman

Sketches of the designs I've done so far.

Recent Updates

So I hope everyone enjoyed the summer as the weather as the nice sunny weather is over, been preparing for my first solo exhibition in a shop that's offered to set them up for me, so thought it be a big step to show my work to folks in town. Been taking evening classes at an art museum MIMA and enjoyed it to keep my skills up to date and meet other artists and other groups.

Did a glassing on a jar and wanting to do a wolf head, wanting to do something easier and simple for me since its been awhile that I did glassing. So far not so bad wand made the 'fur' texture since it was there was not much time to get it completely white.

From MIMA this was one of the life drawings I did from a model we did for working on ideas and techniques, so I used chalk and white coloured pencils with the brown paper to mix together, had plenty of time to get the body right and make some shading in most places.

Working on limited additions to the Shadow Wolf and decided to rename portrait and bought two frames for these after printing them for the exhibition and liked how they turned out in good quality.

Grey Wolf

Been ages since I've uploaded my blog considering that I've been busy job hunting, and decide to make up the lost cause by getting my art business grow in the meantime.

This is what I did today of making animal portraits and decided to make a wolf first as they are one of my favourite animals. Inspired by the Game of Thrones emblem and thought this could do well as a banner for House Stark. Used greyish watercolours to make the fur and the background, maybe do some more work on the background for the shading or another layer.

what do you think should I use this for my future project of making GOT emblem portraits?

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Mountain Dragon

So been working on my new portrait for an art competition I heard about from my nana and thought I give it a shot. Decided to work on this as a fantasy theme illustration with a dragon standing on a mountain or something. First part I show was the sky and wanted it to have the texture of the sky and some light and dark cloud background. Watch some video tutorials for some ideas and will get this done hopefully and turn out well when I finish it. It's been awhile since I did acrylic paint but shouldn't be difficult form years of using a brush.

I managed to do the rest of the sky with lighter blue and fade into the horizon while the rest in the bottom corner could have some mountains and a forest. Been working on the mountain using different shades of brown, mostly something called burnt umber and black to mix with it for another coat with a bit of white for the lighter effects. The darker areas I needed for the shading so they don't look flat and have some depth between the dragon and the mountain cliff. 

Finally completed it, took awhile as I had other things that kept me busy lol. Been having some thoughts of what to add for the final touch either a forest, more clouds or mountains. So I chose the latter as I thought a mountain dragon would fit well in the scenery and heed much of the brown I had to for the texture. Changed the outer wings for a different colour but left some hint of orange so it had some highlights through and tried to add some more light for the head and other areas of the body. Hope you like it and let me know what you think of it or anything that might or could've worked or not.