The Hunter

It is done. Progress shots are on my DeviantArt.

-Ali

Snow Beast Update

Opening up the canvas a little more. I'm learning not to be afraid to paint over, even at this point where I have already developed details.

Snow Beast

          Some progress captures of my latest sketch. Here we are with one of many designs of a yeti-sort monster I was assigned during a game project for a class. It was a lot of fun coming up with monsters and boss creatures. This one here lacks the more extreme fantasy elements that were implemented into some of the other concepts for the yeti. I might take up painting one of the others later after I finish this.

          Wish I had taken intermediate captures when I was fleshing out the fur details, but so often one gets into the rhythm you forget to pause a moment. Oh well, that's always a good sign anyway, now that I'm slowly getting back into drawing and painting. Not that I haven't been sketching, I have, but for a long time - since about March it seems - I never felt truly productive with my work. Now it feels like it's coming back. It's a very, very good feeling.

-Ali

Time is Running Out

          Updating as often as I can. Here we have my latest little fascination: clockwork arachnids. They were inspired by a rather obscure line from a song: "Time moves like spiders" I still don't know what the song writer meant by it, but this is my interpretation using clocks and spiders.

          It was a lot of fun learning about a few species of the widow genus that previously I hadn't known about. The Southern black widow and the brown recluse spider are most common in the area I live in, but a whole plethora of wonder opened up when I read a bit about the Northern black widow and the red widow. Such a beauty, the latter.

         I digress, to the sketch. Here we are with a humble old pocketwatch presenting his deadly siren with a prized, polished watch battery - because only one so vintage as he would think a mere battery is prized. Clockwork and the steampunk genre that encases all related things is still a little foreign to me as far as art is concerned, but nonetheless it's an intriguing one at that. More practice with gears and the like are in store.