Wednesday, December 30, 2015

Thunder Rosa Thumbnail...

...still deciding which one to do next, the face paint is fun as is the expression, but wolf always has such great expressions so that would make it fun.  Will probably do a few more thumbnails to decide...

Tuesday, December 29, 2015

Wolf Thumbnail...

...trying to decided what my next subject will be  Kris Wolf or Thunder Rosa...

Monday, December 28, 2015

Act Gif...

... all the work in progress images put into a gif animation...

Wednesday, December 23, 2015

Medi-Bang Fun...

...Crazy pattern using the newest update from medi-bang...

Tuesday, December 22, 2015

Act 21...

... and done.  My Tribute to Act Yasukawa on the eve of her retirement from the ring.  I was lucky enough to see her wrestle in L.A in October as well as share some rounds of adult beverages with her  at a bar that weekend...

Monday, December 21, 2015

Friday, December 18, 2015

Act 19...

... painted more red hair details and then overall red color tuning...

Thursday, December 17, 2015

Act 18...

...time is running out, need to get this done by the 22nd at the latest.  Added face paint, adjusted hand position and roughed in more of the hand.  I will probably keep messing with the hand position until I think it's the perfect compositional position...

Friday, December 11, 2015

Act 17...

...adjusted lips, added in hand but scale may need to be adjusted...

Wednesday, December 9, 2015

Act 16...

...blocking in the red base for her hair and added in red lips.  Saturation on lips probably needs to be knocked back...

Tuesday, December 8, 2015

Act 15...

...changed up the background and roughed in more of the feel of her messy hair...

Monday, December 7, 2015

Act 14...

... more detailing and starting on the hair.  I think I may need to re-think the tone of the bg as her hair is gonna get lost too easily...

Friday, December 4, 2015

Act 13...

...Eye detailing and small stuff...

Thursday, December 3, 2015

Act 12...

...tackling the eyes again...

Wednesday, December 2, 2015

Krita Fish...


...Decided to test out Krita, a free art software.  Somethings about it are cool, others are not, particularly that is seems its pressure sensitivity isn't the best...

Tuesday, November 24, 2015

Act 11...

...Nose and lips detail and polish, avoiding the eyes...

Monday, November 23, 2015

Act 10...

...scrapped the eyes and will re-do them, working on the general face...

Friday, November 20, 2015

Act 09...

...Eyes...but i hate them, will probably erase and re-do...

Thursday, November 19, 2015

Act 08...

...Torso detailing... I should find a good skin texture brush...

Black and White Skull...

...late night fun...

Wednesday, November 18, 2015

Amorphous Alien Heads...

...took a break from Act today...

Tuesday, November 17, 2015

Act 07...

...Back to the face and refining the large shapes of the likeness..

Friday, November 13, 2015

Act 06 color thumb...

...did a quick color thumbnail to test if doing just the hair, lips and armor parts in red was gonna work.  I think I need to render her eyes to be certain...

Act 06...

...Costuming is done...

Thursday, November 12, 2015

Tuesday, November 10, 2015

Gif Test...

...Wanted to see if I could do a test gif for future use to show animated development of my painting...

Act 04...

...decided to make this a duo-tone and add in all the reds in her costume and eventually the reds in her hair and lipstick.  Also gonna do things in different order and do the costume bits first this time...

Monday, November 9, 2015

Act 03...

...building up the forms and lighting...

Friday, November 6, 2015

Act 02...

...refining the sketch and placing features...

Thursday, November 5, 2015

Wednesday, November 4, 2015

Tuesday, November 3, 2015

Asuka 16... Done...

... added in the mask in the background, finished the hair and did a levels adjustment... I think its done... all told it was 8 hours spent on this one... :)

Monday, November 2, 2015

Asuka 15...

...all the costuming is done, hair is that remains and any final touches.  Maybe do something more with the background but not sure what yet.  I've been flattening as I go so it will be trick around her edges...

Friday, October 30, 2015

Asuka 14...


...collar detailing underway...

Thursday, October 29, 2015

Asuka 13...

...robe detailing done, collar, hair and final adjustments are all thats left...

Wednesday, October 28, 2015

Asuka 12...

...costume details continue, i'm at the stage where if I could just have a dedicated 2 hours I could finish this off...

Tuesday, October 27, 2015

Asuka 11...

...with the costume change, I decided to also do the name change from Kana to Asuka.  Also costume detailing has begun...

Monday, October 26, 2015

Mech Kana 10...

... Roughed in her hair and after thinking about it made a costume change, decided to go with her latest outfit in NXT...

Friday, October 23, 2015

Mech Kana 09...

... still refining the likeness, but onto the costume and body... hair will probably be the last bit... since I want her face to be the focus I gotta find the balance of detail in the rest of the image...

Thursday, October 22, 2015

Mech Kana 08...

...Likeness better, eyes refined, eyebrows added, nose shadow improved... hair and costume are next...

Wednesday, October 21, 2015

Mech Kana 07...

... 2 eyes now, but right one needs some refinement...

Tuesday, October 20, 2015

Mech Kana 06...

...back from LA and Stardom.  Now its one eye at a time, and lip details...

Thursday, October 15, 2015

Mech Kana 05...

...working on improving the likeness...

Wednesday, October 14, 2015

Mech Kana 04...

...refining tones and shapes, avoiding the eyes cause they are so scary leaving them like this...

Tuesday, October 13, 2015

Big Scythe...

...was out of town for a handful of days, but back home now and back to the grind :-P

Monday, October 5, 2015

Friday, October 2, 2015

Thursday, October 1, 2015

Wednesday, September 30, 2015