So after a week or two of just one picture updates, here's a post with two!  I'm in the midst of making some portfolio worthy pieces, so I've been vamping up some pieces that I deemed possibly show worthy as well as trying to finish up some other things (that may not be quite worthy of making the cut).  First up is the finished product of my succubus cthulu design.

 

She may have some small improvements added to her later (if I notice something that I absolutely must change), but for the most part she's 100 percent  completed.  I nearly wept when she was done- she was more of a hassle to create than I originally had anticipated. I think what was most difficult was figuring out how many tentacles she had and where they were going! I hadn't thought that I was going to have to also paint a back to my succubus, so I went a little wild with my first design.  I drove myself crazy trying to figure out what went there, so I finally had to make a colour cheatsheet to ensure that I had eight tentacles and that they all connected together.  

With the colour system in place it was a lot easier to figure things out.  And I managed to correct a mistake or two...for example I had the baby blue tentacle originally attached to the purple one which would have made no sense in the original design.  Even with the colours added I still sometimes got lost while counting though!

This is a quick colour sketch of a picture I posted here a while ago.   Usually when I draw I have a decent idea of the background of the character that I draw.  I figured that she was a rather saucy magician type, but I found myself labeling her as a dancer in my notes.  Perhaps she creates her own special effects?  But more importantly-

Seriously.  They both must be very chilly dressed like that. 

Today I just have one update to make, as I've been busy with other portfolio related works and have been mostly in the plotting and brainstorming stages of art anywho.  Its also a little more rough around the edges than my usual works in progress, but I like to think that gives it charm.

 

This is a picture of Hel, who is the being who rules over the realm of Death in Norse mythology.  I really wanted to work on making a fun perspective piece, and I've been dying to make a picture of her for years.  She contains quite a bit of artistic interpretation, as the historical Hel is supposed to be half skeletal unhappy corpse and half woman but I like her odd bone-like markings.  The random lines framing her are where I intend to cut the picture off when I'm completed..after she's a bit more done of course.  The background still needs completed - I do tend to slack off on backgrounds, I think- but so far I'm really digging it.  Pillars seems like an appropriate addition for a death home, don't you think? 

Works in Progress

No early update this week- whoops, got a bit ahead of myself, I suppose, but two nearly completed works to show!

The skin tones are still rather flat on this one, and I'm experimenting with a target background.  This piece comes from a short story that I was thinking about drawing out one day soon.  In short its about an assassin who drags an unwitting accomplice into her schemes.  I was just playing around with poses and character design with this one, though I'm pretty happy with the nearly completed finished product.

This piece is one I've been kicking around and updating for quite some time now.  For right now I only have the skin tones, but I've been working on also adding some colour to the graffiti as well.  I've tried out several scenarios, but have yet to be completely happy with it.  I'll update when I finally manage to get it just right! 

Vociferous Vocalizations!

Nothing too new to report, other than the fact that the v button on my laptop fell off suddenly today so I had to have my tech genius reattach it.  Why would a letter that I rarely use suddenly betray me?  Its so odd!  I suppose I should use as many v's as possible until it does happen to break.

I've been on such a Bioware kick lately, though I did do this piece as a commission.  I like Tali, though I think that if I had to pick one of the alien crew she would be second after Garrus.  This is only the beginning of the piece, as I may end up doing a full figural sketch.  I will probably keep this inking, though I plan on somehow working the Geth plasma shotgun into the piece.  So far its just in its infancy, but I have high hopes for the finished product of this one.  This is just a small preview before I post the final product.

I also ending up finishing up the Bobbi work that I posted last week.  I think that maybe the crotch of her pants ended up being too low, so I may end up changing that.  I also put a free background that I found online at succodesign.it, (being horrifically tired of white backgrounds) though the dots are just a temporary fix until I can paint in an appropriate background.  Somehow the circle print ended up working well though, and I was too excited about it to hold off on posting it for another week while I toiled away at architecture. 

Just two pieces for this Friday, though I may post a mini-update sometime later this week.  Til' then, friendlies!