Unitaur girl

Doodle from last week, just something quick

Progress shot of something I'm working on. c: I think I got a little carried away painting

Sketch Update

Some progress sketches of my most recent work. I have a looooot of works in progress right now but that's good; Whatever I can't finish at the moment I can always save as a sketch to get back to later.

Here we have my character, Zylix (right) and a friend's character, Xel, (left). Spaaaaaaaace!

And gateways to other universes!

Although that's not actually what this is. That last image was just the result of me indulging with some experimental back-lighting. I don't think that galaxy is going to stay.

Xel and info on her can be found on my friend's blog athttp://kirstendoodles.tumblr.com/

Airbrush Technique

Compiling my airbrush work thus far, from most recent (top) to earliest work (bottom). So far it's proven to be very time consuming, but extremely enjoyable the whole journey through and totally worth it in the end.

Aztec Antics

More Mexicantics! This time, an Aztec version of Zylix. He'll never look like this in his canon universe, but that doesn't mean I can't draw it anyway.

I've been listening to flamenco chillout, and don't ask me how, but it's always brought this idea upon me. Said idea wouldn't leave me alone for over a week, so I finally got it out of my system.

Raw Sketches

Well, I've had these doodles sitting on my system for a few months and since their conception I haven't really had the energy to go back and do much with them. The top is a sketch of my character Luka; he's a vigorous workaholic with a hole in his life, yet he's afraid to let even the prettiest stranger in to show him how to love again. The bottom is a sketch of Ramando (aka Zylix) in his slave uniform when he was under the command of a very wealthy man. I've yet to revamp the male slave's costume design, though I really look forward to doing do after the holidays.

A couple updates

Here are a couple of doodles I did and decided to spruce up a bit to make them presentable. Both were originally sketched with pen, and all the color is done in Photoshop CS5. The top is a sea turtle version of an alien race I've developed, a happy accident this sea turtle. The second are two chibis of a couple characters from the graphic novel I'm developing.

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.

Dragonfruit

Steps for this one are as follow. I changed her hairstyle last minute because I thought short spiky hair looked cuter on this particular girl, and went with the dragonfruit theme. I also continued to adjust that darned fruit hat because I wasn't sure if I wanted it to break the line of action or go with it. Obviously, I chose for it to compliment the gesture rather than counter it.