When in doubt, paint a robot

Robot a-runnin'...



Been working lately with penciling and inking drawings, practicing spotting blacks, and have been frustrated with it because it just looks too... clean. Anyway, was flipping through Ashley Wood's "Grande Fanta" and got the urge to do a messy painting, which was cathartic...

Panel test

Been experimenting with the idea of using Colors! to paint comic strip panels, found that doing characters with detailed backgrounds might not be practical, for the most part. Ended up sketching the character and background separate and then composited them in Photoshop, seems to work fine. Also added a texture overlay to the background to rough it up a little...

Pre-flight Battle Prep

Colors painting based on a drawing out of my sketchbook:

Robot Tank

Doodled this while I was waiting for the IT Department to install some software on my machine:



Pretty much one of those stream-of-consciousness sketches, where I wasn't quite sure where I was going with it at first. There are a couple things I like about the final piece, particularly the earthy subdued tones.

New robot noggin

Doodled while waiting for a midnight showing of the newest Harry Potter movie...



Btw, the movie was really good. Not as much action as the previous films I thought, this one was more about character development, with nice bits of quirk and nuance everywhere. Also loved the cinematography; there were a couple scenes where, in the way they were shot, I was like hey, that's fun! All in all a good time, but now after not having gotten to sleep last night 'til 4 in the morning, I'm quite zombified...

Freelance finished (hopefully)

Here are the finished paintings, albeit scaled down considerably:



I ended up editing the panther quite a bit; the others stayed pretty much the same, relatively speaking. It's a shame these are going to be printed on umbrella panels, a lot of the art is going to wind up being cropped out... C'est la vie. At least it's done, unless the client requests some changes, which usually ends up being the case.

At any rate, I'm going to go sleep now.

Freelance Numero Cuatro

Last one! Mr. Sea Otter:



So most of the heavy lifting is done, it should be pretty downhill from here...