Surreality

I've been offered the opportunity to do some color work for a friend of mine from the Academy of Art. He's working on a web comic called Surreality that he also plans to publish. Check it out, and those of you @ C2E2 feel free to drop in on Caleb and Carla at their booth!

 

 

 

Art by Caleb King
Colors by Kat Guevara

Sistine WIP

Just posting a quick WIP of something I am working on atm. I plan to use this in an upcoming portfolio, and am finding that working digitally my artwork looks a lot more polished than my watercolors. Sad, but true.

Star Wars Pulp

So I finished painting my piece for the Provocateur Gallery/ ArtOrder. I painted this in watercolors, which needed some digital touch up after scanning. If being a watercolor painter has any nasty little demons at all, I have to say the biggest pain is the one who lurks in the scanner.

Anyways, the deadline is due in a few weeks, so this ought to be sent out in time for it. Fingers crossed it makes the gallery!

30 Days of Sketches!

Hello bloggers,

This month I shall attempt to draw one character every day for the next 30 days (I only now realize there are only 29 days this month). It's my hopes to get my creative juices flowing, so these are just sketches I am being pretty laid back about doing.

In preparation I did make a list of characters to draw for the next month and some days, so I'm not just pulling ideas out at random as I go along. Just to make sure I don't lose steam in trying to pick some subjects to doodle. With that, check back to see more sketches as I find time to post them up, beginning with:

Dr. Mrs. Monarch!

SW Pulp WIP

 After posting my process to the WiPnation forums, where this contest is also taking place, it came to my attention that I had lost a lot of emotion in Princess Leia when it came to the pencil drawing. After doing the color comp I was feeling timid about continuing onto the painting stage, and I am happy I didn't.

Original Sketch

First Draft

Second Draft

In the original Leia is obviously more surprised/shocked by seeing Vader and his torture droid, however after getting a crit my original pencil drawing made Leia look more in control. So I took my drawing back to the drawing board and made the correction. I moved her arm up so it looks more like she is cowering, or trying to shield herself. I also changed the expression on her face, which was my main cause for not going to paint.

First Post of The New Year! A WIP

Its a new year, and already there are some projects to be had. In light of playing some SWOR and enjoying a little spiked cider, there are a couple of gallery events that have a call for art. The first is for pin-up work and while I have a piece drawn out I have yet to post it. The second is a call for pulp art, which is what I have posted below.

Pen Sketch

Pencil

Color Comp

Mock Cover

I'm planning on painting this in watercolor, and because of the large amounts of black I decided to do a digital color comp just to be safe. I did consider inking this in but am hesitant since doing so may give this more of a comic book feel. I am also not sure at this point if I will add in the type or not. If I do it will be done digitally. Anyways....back to work!

Sketches

Here's a couple of sketches of some things I'm tinkering around with. The first is a character from a story a friend and I wrote a while back, the second is an idea for what could be a MTG card of an angel.

I like the angel sketch, but I'm not really feeling the armor so I'll probably tweak that some more, and I'm thinking about doing some kind of a Celtic knot pattern in her halo.