Rabbit Heart

New Art Challenge with friends! (I promise I'll manage to post something else soon). This time the topic was: Rabbit Heart. Based on Florence + the Machine song. Interpreted as we want. So here's my quicky thing. I actually had another one started, something bigger, but later did this sketch and thought it'll be nicer to finish first. So expect another rabbit soon.  I just missed those kind of pieces in my gallery.

Here's sort of a wip / tutorial picture, maybe it'll be useful for someone:

*edit*: ok, this pic got scaled down for some reason, here's a bigger version. Pen sketch, scanned, colours in Photoshop. Usual stuff :)

Viper sketches

Some Street Fighter's Viper fanarts I just found. Although done few months back, when SFIV came out. Very quick pencil sketches, just for fun :)

Diploma work.

I actually have quite a lot to post. I just don't know where it is. Really. But anyway, I promised to some people on DA I'll show some of my diploma works. So, here it is. A photo showing how it finally looked, with all big posters printed and a bonus photo of some traditional (pencil) sketches which served as the appendix for the design work. It looks kind of out of proportion because of the camera's wide angle. Except for the places where it just IS out of proportions of course (can you tell I'm not satisfied with these?). But then again I only had around 5 nights to finish all of them, and had to draw really quick. Had no time for any corrections back then and I don't like it enough to do anything with it now, except maybe taking it to the basement when I stop feeling lazy.

For some of these (bottom 3, starting from the right) I based poses on DA stock. Sorry, forgot which, but I'm not going to re-post these anywhere and I didn't follow it closely anyway. Rest was drawn from live models.

Now, time to search for some more interesting stuff :)

Moleskine again

Second batch of Moleskine sketches. I think it needs a bit of explanation first. I got Letraset markers for Christmas and started having some fun with them. Although I just got few colours, so my colour palette here is very limited. Still it was so much fun to be drawing with markers again.

So these are mostly just some random ideas to try out how they mix together. It turned out they pierce to the other side of the paper. It irked me at first, but then I thought it's actually fun and I sketched other things on those pages. That gave me two different, flipped pictures for one coloured piece. I didn't do all of them like that, but thought I'll post all pages anyway, even if half are just backsides of actual pics. I already started posting whole spreads here, so I might just as well continue with that. For those of you who are really observant there is one spread missing and one page is blurred. That's on purpose, these are 3 very personal pages to me and I won't be sharing them online :)

I'm thinking of re-doing some of those sketches into more finished work. When I'll have some time (ha, ha). We'll see. And since it's my first post this year - happy new year everyone! :)

Moleskine sketches

As promised to few people - Moleskine scans. First six pages, completely unaltered digitally. Some designs, some concepts and some pencil studies. I might use some ideas here for something more. Maybe. More to come. Hopefully ;)

And yes, I'm *that* patient with very thin ink pens sometimes. Usually on the train, when I have nothing better to do anyway. And it's fun practice, even though some bits would be so much easier and quicker to do in Photoshop or Illustrator.

ink fun!

Long time since I had some time to post anything here. And sunnier days have come. In more than one meaning, which is great. I think. And hope :)

Aaaaanyway. I tried my patience with inks lately. I do it once in a while, like a real masochist. I just sit somewhere with my sketchbook and doodle all the patterns manually for hours, when usually I'd just make a pattern and use Stamp Tool to cover whole area with it in Photoshop. I call it patience practice ;) Lately I'm also again very much into 1900 graphics. Meaning Aubrey Beardsley, George Barbier and Virginia Frances Sterret. If you don't know them go check them now. They're amazing and one of my biggest inspirations.

Two samples out of few, ink on A5. I might use those ideas for something more. Have one project in mind already (someone just give me time for that.. argh).
Oh, I also feel the need to share some thoughts about Twilight (the movie). I know most won't even read it and the ones who will - will most likely be raging Twilight / that I-don't-think-he's-pretty-at-all guy fans but hey, it's my blog, I can babble here about whatever I want :D

I heard the film was a huge success so I decided to see it after reading most of the book as well (grew tired of it, but that's another story). And, wow, is it just me or was this movie really, and I mean really crap? I expected a kind of a 'guilty pleasure' thing, that is a bit silly but still enjoyable to watch, but instead what I got was: crappy acting (really, worst acting I saw in a long while), crappy scenario - scenes shattered randomly and I wouldn't get a clue why some were there if I haven't read the book. I mean, honestly, I was watching a major hit production and I had a feeling of seeing a really bad, B class film (to say the least)..

I do think it was a pretty movie, but just picture wise. It was filmed in a really nice way - with all landscapes and colours. But honestly.. even quite ridiculous dialogues from the book were shortened and, because of that, made even more silly. We laughed quite a few times while watching it and it wasn't because it was intentionally funny. Same about acting. It was more funny than serious and yet again I don't think it was on purpose. I wanted to write which scenes exactly made me laugh so hard, but luckily I forgot most of it an hour after watching it and don't really feel like watching it again. Ever.

After reading the book I thought I'd get a better, more "commercialized" version of it. But instead I got something even worse and even more boring and, wow, that's an achievement.

Okay, enough of babbling, back to doodling.

X-Men girls!

Just recently I re-read all issues of X-Men I have. And boy, it rocks. These comics were my life when I was a kid and Jim Lee, John Byrne and Mark Silvestri were my gods :) Right now I can't believe I used to hate Barry Windsor Smith (his Storm + Forge issue, when she lost her powers). I guess it wasn't a style easy for kids, but right now I just adore the way he draws. Anyway, that was just a cheap excuse for few quick (around 10-15mins each) pencil sketches, later quickly colored with a custom textured brush. Just for fun.



Actually I never, ever, posted a fanart online before.. And I probably never will in any place other than here. Especially on DeviantArt. Even though I do draw some once in a while. The thing is I see way too many "artists" getting instant 1000+ faves just because the really crappy pic they sent is a wanky fanart of Harry Potter, Naruto or something. And I don't want to know my art is liked just because it pictures something that is popular right now.

Although I am thinking of drawing few X-girls related pieces. As a tribute to my childhood, or something. I seriously wanted to be Storm when I was a kid. And I literally cried when they cut her hair into a mohawk. Funny how things change, as right now I think it was her best design. And I definitely hate the way new issues of X-Men look right now.

some stuff from few months back.

a pencil sketch for one of my projects (some textures added in PS7):

unfinished picture from last summer, I think I'll try to redraw it soon.

for those curious how my regular workshop looks like when I paint bigger, traditional stuff ;)

mini GW commission samples.

some of the mini GW commissions I did a while ago, pencils on A4 paper.