The Progression of: Gears

Well, another piece of art finished, another chance to post the work in progress pictures! (I love work in progress pictures)

Started out with a rough colored sketch and a reference for the tattoo on her shoulder.

 On the left you can see my skin tone palate. That's for when I start shading. The top color is the lighting color, next is base skin tone, then as it goes down it gets to the darker shading.

Done with the base Vector and worked on the hair detail. 

Shaded everything then went back to clean it up and smooth parts of it.

Added a background which was actually my original sketch that I tinted and cleaned up a bit.

Two Year Mark!

So, it's time for my annual progress picture of my art! Every year around this time I try to finish one piece of art that I'm decently proud of. Why? So I can do an [Insert Year Here] progress comparison! 

I got my tablet two years ago, and I personally think I've improved quite a bit. 

Sketch Dump 2

Adding onto my series of sketch dumps here are some of my digital sketches that I've done in the past months.

The top left is Merida from Pixar's Brave. Bottom right is Paige from Tron: Uprising. The other two are avatars from a forum I use. 

Sketch Dump 1

So as the school year comes to a close I decided I'm going to do a huge Sketch Dump from everything I've drawn during the year.

In this selection most recent to least recent goes from the top left, top right, bottom left, then the oldest is the bottom right.

Clearly some of them are unfinished and others are much more complicated than others. I really wanted to finish the top left picture but I started losing time for it, sadly.

The Making Of: Spring Afternoon

Not to long ago I did an art piece that I titled Spring Afternoon (really cheesy and horrible title, I know) and I saved some Work in progress (WIP) pictures of it so I could look back at the process.

I started with a sketch like this. The sketch is colored and a bit more detailed than usual, but that's what I ended up with anyways.

Next, I vectored over the sketch and ditched the lines, and of course added a bit of detail.As you can see, it's not exactly the same as the sketch. I tweaked and changed a few things such as the eyes and mouth.

Finally, I added more detail, shading, and a background to pull it all together.  For the background, jewel/gem things, and the bow I used gradients to get that nice fading effect.