TO MEGABRO

Here's a little present I did form my brother!

Smoke Hammer

Experimenting with quicker, simple technique in order to fit some paining back in to my scarce and tight free time.

Medicine Woman

Initial sketch

I've been always fascinated by early human history(Palaeolithic, Neolithic, Bronze Age) and I've been plying around with different ideas based around similar topics, with the ultimate goal of creating a short illustrated alternate history of one such tribe, in an invented alternate world...someday. Here's a random character based on an old thumbnail.

Five Helmets

Here are five quickly rendered in B/W helmets, part of a series of 100 that I never finished. Mostly because I planed to render all of them in this way. Will probably post the rest of them at some point in whatever state they're in when I have time to assemble them :). The designs are completely random, just an exercise.

Centrifuge Outcasts Head Mechanic

This one is a paint over an old sketch I did for the [neo]martyr project ages ago, I decided to paint it over recently, but the overall lack of perspective and depth to the portrait finally managed to put me off polishing it more. Nevertheless a good exercise that helped me realise some things that I was lacking and need to study more. Also I think that In my attempts to fix problems with the initial sketch I lost a lot of the character and attitude I had going on there.

Sneige Portrait

detail:

A Semi-stylized portrait of my amazing wife Snezhana aka. Sneige check her works on sneige.com or her blog orangethyme.blogspot.com !

100 Heads

Here's another 100 things exercise, heads this time. Most of them really bad attempts some not so bad. The important thing learned tons of thing, thing's that I do wrong and many I need to improve or concentrate more on. Here's a list of some.

- Increase format, tiny moleskin is nice quick and comfortable, but the lack of "resolution" messes your proportions and often the sense of scale. Makes you miss things.

- Pay more attention to perspective in faces, try and exaggerate it when needed. Yes it's there especially when the viewer is very close to the subject.

- Pay more attention to subtleties and detail, something the larger format allows.

- Fill in my visual dictionary with greater variety of expressions, not only extremes, but ones expressing more subtle feelings too.

- Do more studies from life and reference. Those are never enough. And are especially useful after s loon series you've tried to pull out of your head.

- There's maybe more.

note: some heads might be missing, because done on separate sheets or SBs if I manage to track those down and scan them I'll add them here

Mixed Media Attempt 2

 Here's my second recent mixed media attempt/test/exercise.

Quick black Marker sketch +  Some Acrylics + Some Photoshop.

Of Charshop and Photocoal

A little charcoal doodle made a bit more plausible with the help of PS, done inspired by Aeon telling me repetitively just how awesome charcoals were. (slightly inspired by Zhaoming Wu)