Meteor breaks apart

I just finished this painting in watercolor. A few travelers watch the spectacle as the meteor streaks across the sky and breaks apart.

Planet in watercolor

I recently did sort of a mixed media image of an object falling into the atmosphere of a planet. I call it mixed media because I painted it in watercolor and added the darkness of space in Photoshop after scanning the image into the computer. Here's the final image:

onion peelers

This was another digital painting I did recently. Finished this the other week but I have been busy so I havent posted it. Heres the progression.

I started doing just working out the values in black and white, mainly because the source image was black and white. I believe I used a color overlay layer to add the color. The final color needed some adjustments on a different layer just painting over top of the whole document here and there where needed. The background was not part of the original image.

Digital painting practice

I started this new digital painting a few days ago. Here are a few in-progress shots.

Ime

I'm designing a character named "Ime". Ime doesn't have a story exactly, she just kinda sprouted up from some drawings I used to do when I was younger. I used to fantasize about a race of humanoid monkey people that lived in the trees. Actually I still do that...

This one is circa who knows when. You can see its not a very advanced drawing. Its full of stick figures. At this point the people living in the trees didn't have tails. That came later.

This is also super old. But here we have some tails. And tools. Ime wouldn't make stone spear tips or arrow heads because her village is so high up in the canopy that her species never makes it to the ground. They would most likely use arrow heads carved from the bone of large birds. The bones are strong yet lightweight, making a very fast flying arrow.

Here she is in a quick digital painting I threw together a few months back. She's got arrows fletched with the wing feathers of an Indigo colored bird, and is wearing some decoration made from the feathers of the same bird. Although you cant see them here, the bones that make up the arrow heads of her arrows come from this same Indigo bird.

In another post I'll detail how I'm actually building a model of Ime.

Instagram post - charcoal drawing

An oldie charcoal drawing. This was a homework assignment a few years back. Al's jacket.
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Instagram post

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