@dnewling, asked how I made the eye in this weeks R/R challenge. I thought I would post it over here, in case it helps anyone else. It's one of my bag of tricks I use for fire, water, jungle undergrowth and all sorts of other things. I start with several scanned and vectored paint squiggles like this: I layer a bunch of different colors, like blues for water, yellow/orange/red for fire, etc. For the iris of the eye I just took the 'fire' and applied a 180° arc in Illustrator, rotated a couple of copies, tweaked it a bit, added a couple of shaded overlays for depth and boom, eyeball. You can see a couple of duplicated shapes in there, usually I edit them out, but I only had an hour to fit this in.
Neat stuff FredG and Oddbill, I love reading art process things.
Another Alphabeast: The Yara-ma-yha-who Is from Australian aboriginal folklore. This creature uses its suckers to drain a persons blood, then eats them, then pukes them up leaving them shorter than before.
Loving the pieces. Some of them have this craggy, long-limbed Æon Flux quality, which I love. I also love the sketchy flapper-ish girl with the bob and the close-up of the girl looking over her shoulder. Great capture of her face.
@Mojo: awweeeesoooooommeeee....! This little piece of crappy speed drawing was supposed to be my contribution to the Speed Centaur R/R thread. Sadly (...) it did not made it.
@ JP great speed centaur! love the light-lines @ imaginary- that f--kn rocks. I didn't get a chance to answer last time but I do all my detail drawings with technical pens and quills @ nocuddle - always amazing, I really enjoy your work and such a cute picture too! Are these done on paper? chalk? or in the computer?
Thanks! Everything is ink and gouache on bristol, recently a bit of acrylic has been sneaking in but I'm not certain why or if I prefer it yet. I'll add a bit of texture or some levels in Photoshop. I just got a new tablet though so I'm trying the digital thing a bit. Not sure it fits my style though...