Some digital work as promised

I promised I would post some of my digital work.  I'm way more comfortable working digitally.  I've been using photoshop for one thing or another since about 1998.  You'll probably recognize this from my InkTober drawings.  I have a deep and abiding fondness for torturing my children...  My son found this drawing "disturbing" so.. of course... I had to paint it.

Back to normal... whatever that is.

I've missed the last couple of updates on the blog.  Mostly because I've had nothing to really show.  My mother-in-law gave me a set of acryl gouache paints to try out, and I've spent the last few days trying to wrap my head around them.  They do work really well with the watercolor, but they are also nothing like anything I've used before.

I've never used traditional gouache, so I have no reference point to compare the two.  What I can say about the acryl gouache (by Turner) is that they dry insanely fast.  So unlike oils and regular acrylics, if you don't nail the color on the palette, you don't really get to mix in other paint to adjust on the paper.  Which I think is a good thing.  It forces me to really think about what I'm doing.  Gouache is opaque, so it will cover up some errors in the painting, but it has it's limits.

I've also started working on my digital stuff again, as you saw in the end of InkTober.  I forgot how much I loved it, and I will certainly be showing some digital work here soon.  Until then, here is a shot of my work area, and the master study (Luis Royo) I'm currently working on.

The end of InkTober

These two are the last images for InkTober.  I did it!  I actually used the last day to get back into my old digital drawings.  After this it will be back to your regular scheduled programming, back to mediums I'm a little more comfortable with...

InkTober No 25 - 29

Don't worry I'm not slacking off at work, I wrote this up last night and just didn't see the point in posting at 11:30.  

I kind of liked the goblin I posted last time, and spent a little while sketching out ideas and developing forms for it.  There is nothing super special here, I just figured I could incorporate some of my thought processes in developing this character idea into inktober.  I took a few of the... less awful ideas... and inked them.  There are a few obvious problems with these drawings, but I think I really like where the idea is heading.

Inktober # 24

Here is the next installment in the adventure that is InkTober.  I'm currently regretting committing to do this.  It's not really the challenge of drawing every day, I had already committed to that.  It's creating a complete drawing every day... in ink even.  The rest of the stuff I've committed to study are all suffering.  But, I did make the commitment, so I have to stick to it.  There are only a few days left in the month anyway.  I actually have a few more drawings, but I'm having a hard time getting them scanned in.  I will have that fixed by Thursday.  Anyway, I hope you enjoy this one!

InkTober No 17 - 23

This post should catch me up on InkTober.  Sorry for the quality on some of the images, I need to get a setup for photographing... I'm currently taking pictures with my phone and adjusting them as much as I can.  It will be better soon... I swear.. 

Several more #Inktober drawings - InkTober No. 12 - 16

Hey everyone, sorry for missing my Thursday post last week, but you know how it goes.  Today's post continues the Inktober project.  We are two-thirds through the month and I've learned quite a lot already.

My line work is better, which I think you can see in this post alone.  I'm really enjoying the juxtaposition of nice cleans and open white space.  My hatching is starting to improve, but it's still my least favorite method of shading.  Without super careful control, it just starts to look like texture, and I'm not super patient with it.

 I've also learned about the snowball effect of getting behind on a project.  I'm currently four drawings behind, with ten days to catch up.  I'll manage to catch up, but I fear the quality may suffer.  We shall see...