Freelance number three

Polar bear:



One more and then I can move on to the final step...

Freelance Woof

Here's another piece of the freelance project, this one's a gray wolf:



In order to bump up the colors, I superimposed the layer with a copy, and set the copied layer to "Hard Light" mode... that has the effect of increasing the color saturation, while tightening up the contrast, for a bit more pop.

It's kind of reminiscent of some old gouache and acrylic illustration from a 50's textbook...

Freelance project work-in-progress

Here's one of the pieces I'm currently working on, of a Florida panther:



I had to pop the saturation a little in Photoshop; one of the things I find about working in Colors is that I tend to misjudge the color levels while I'm painting, and when I transfer the final pic to computer it looks flatter than I intended. But that's okay for this project, since I'm just laying down the foundation to paint over in PS...

Freelance this weekend

This weekend I've got a freelance project to work on, the client is a wildlife preservation group that wanted some painterly pieces done for a promo umbrella. I did mockup color roughs using Colors! for DS. For the final pieces I'm taking those roughs, polishing them up some more in Colors, and then I'll upsize them in Photoshop and add the finishing touches. It's an experiment, but one I suspect should work well.

Here's an unused color rough of a dolphin, I think I dashed this out in about 15-20 minutes:

More robot dev sketches

These are pretty rough, I'm still feeling my way 'round for a style I'm confident about...

Robot rough

So progress on this robot-filled story I've been working on has been slooooow, but at least there's some movement. Here's a rough drawing, playing around with a sketch in Photoshop:

Alchemy

So I've seen this program "Alchemy" a while ago, and thought it was an interesting random shape generator. However, it didn't really occur to me at the time how I could use it. But today it hit me, it's actually a really nice way for me to create quick thumbnails to explore robot shapes. It'll be a great help in particular because I've felt recently my stuff has become a little stale.

I've only been able to mess with it a little bit, but in a short time I've found it's simple and easy to use. I like the mirror function, which makes drawing up a robot shape really really fast.

Anyway, here are some quickie Alchemy doodles that I might develop a bit further.