WIP: Feeding Coalition

Trying something completely new in this one, subject matter and rendering wise.

Slightly inspired by Royal Winter Fair and how savage the llamas were in the feeding area. I lost quite a bit of drawings because a hungry llama decided to take a bite out of my newsprint pad.

Kickass Free Tutorials

http://b.static.ak.fbcdn.net/rsrc.php/z4HBM/hash/3krgnmig.swf?v=181919819370&ev=0

This was done by user jason_maranto at conceptart.org. Very helpful in trying to determine values for the sake of composition and not always what seems scientific. Analyzes the works of Frazetta as well.

http://www.youtube.com/user/daarken

Daarken is a concept artist working on Warhammer Online who does tutorials in his free time. He sheds light more on Photoshop techniques than art fundamentals, though it's awesome nonetheless.

http://www.conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=148355

Lin Ran's tutorials translated by a user in conceptart. Lin is just godly at painting. I found it revolutionary in how to perceive colours through RGB rather than the usual HSB because the world ultimately works around light reaching our eyes. One of the best free tutorials I've ever read.

A little treat for people who actually decides to click "Alexander Chow" on the Animation blog list :) . Now to cram for today's storyboarding test...

"Layouts" and Ninja Girl Coloured

I did not know what to do with layout assignment 2 quite honestly, so I did what I thought Komza meant. Hopefully it's close enough...

Samurninja

For those who follow the UFC, I couldn't stop thinking of Shogun's fight last night. The judges must have had Solid Snake stealth because they wouldn't have gotten out the stadium alive otherwise.

The thought kind of led me to doing this for some odd reason. I decided to place many materials of different properties which makes for excellent practice. Initial silhouette is provided as well. I was thinking of placing a dead dragon behind her but this piece is cheesy enough as it is.

EDIT: Woke up and realized how stupidly revealing it was on the leg area. Fixed.

EDIT2: Leather looked like cloth. Cloth looked like leather. Fixed.

The Goliath

This is a character for my upcoming bigger painting. I wanted to experiment with specularity and how much of it is needed in order to show form for metals. The classical test to find the balance between lighting theory and what looks good in art came to play yet again...

Inspired by gorillas and Monster Hunter.