Posts in category "wip"

Complete Animus work-in-progress

Finally done :) I finished it yesterday at 1:30 A.M., photographed it this morning before work, and now I've completed these work in progress pieces.

Animated GIF

1. Pencil sketch
2. Background painted in diluted ultramarine acrylic paint (full view of this step is missing, but you can see it here), then painted colorful doodles with acrylic and drawn music with ink
3. First layer of robe in cyan
4. Completed face skin, some work on the arms and a layer of magenta over the robe
5. Painted the hair and antlers with ink wash, some details on the arms, and a layer of mars black over the robe (big mistake, now parts have a greenish tone)
6. Fixed the eyes and arms a bit, added some highlights on the antlers and arms with white acrylic, a bit of pure black ink on the robe and several more layers of ultramarine and magenta, plus another layer of ultramarine on the background. Voilla!

Finished painting:

Acrylic and ink wash on watercolor paper, 32x50cm. I don't know how many hours because I've lost count.

Animus work in progress #5

You must be bored the hell out of it already, but here comes. Hair and antlers done, robe is darkened a bit. Still haven't fixed the eyes and arms.

Acrylic and ink on watercolor paper.

Now drinking a gallon of black tea and off I go painting.

EDIT: But not before I tweaked this thing a bit. I finally coded pagination for categories (it used to show all posts in category on a single page, sorry about that..) and also found a couple of images I lost when my files were mysteriously deleted from the public_html folder (Hostgator claimed they had no idea what happened, and that it surely wasn't hacked...) so now there should be less 404 pages. If you encounter any more please let me know.

Animus work in progress #4

Still not finished... but I'm pretty satisfied with the skin. Face needs more work around the eyes, and arms will require opaque painting (everything so far was transparent) since I screwed up the shape, and already painted the background before fixing it -.-

Acrylic and ink on watercolor paper.

Animus work in progress #3

I thought I would finish it today, but some unplanned things prevented it. Here's a progress shot, these little colorful thingies took me hours to paint.. :) The cape won't be blue, I'll do it in layers to get a deep rich black, I hope it turns out as I planned.

Acrylic and ink on watercolor paper.

Work in progress and my awesome workspace

My plan for yesterday failed because some mysterious aches put me in bed for the rest of the day, and today I spent the most of my afternoon wasting my time on the Internet until I pulled myself together and decided to at least start working my painting (see: Animus sketch).

So in case you were ever wondering what my classy artist's workspace looks like, here it is:

Yep, two boards on the floor, a pillow to sit or kneel on, and a bunch of tools lying around (more than I actually use, but better safe than sorry).

I'm always fighting this terrible fear of failing, and especially when working traditionally, so getting on from sketch is very stressful and I'm avoiding it as long as I possibly can. Sometimes for months (or even over a year, see: Underground fruits). I know I should just suck it up. I know it's the thing that's actually preventing me from making any progress (that, and laziness). I'm trying to get over it, but it's a fight, every single time. So this is what I have to do - start with the background, even if I can only spare an hour. So far there's nothing I could screw up beyond repair, so it's easy enough.

Well, this simple background took me a lot more time than I thought, but apart form a few details I think it's ok. I erased bits of line-art and tomorrow I'll work on the cape and the rest of the background. Maybe I even finish it, hm.