Purple Lady

This is another attempt at drawing a realistic person and I had to use a reference for the face. I'm pleased so far with the outcome of the face but I think her body language needs to be changed a little. Figuring out the background is difficult. I know I want an explosion of some kind but of what? It's starting to look like some beach house in the middle of nowhere so I need to be more creative with that.

Willow tree

Decided to make the boy a messenger bird because it's more nature like. Had to look at a blue jay reference and boy it's not easy to draw birds. I cropped the image because there was too much space on top and now it looks just right. I just need to figure out what else I can add.

Bday gift for niece

Here it is. Cartoon version of my niece Bella. She's a cutie.

So here's an update on "Dancer". I added a background, not fully sure what it's going to be but I did have a dance floor in the original sketch. I decided to add some butterflies flying around her to sort of create an illusion of more movement??? I guess you could say they're dancing with her. Painted the butterflies using a reference. I redrew her hand because in the last drawing it didn't make sense. Now I'm trying to think about what details I could add and also add more color values to make her pop.

First post for 2012! Yeah, it's been a while. I finally got everything I need to start CGing again and I have so many ideas and so much to show. First up is a drawing that I did 3 years ago that I started coloring in Photoshop CS4 just two days ago. I'm trying to develop a new style for my illustrations, something more painterly. I'm also experimenting with brighter colors and different brushes. So far I am about 6 hours into the work. I need to figure out what background I want or if there needs to be a background at all. Still trying to figure out my painting style and I might change some of the anatomy. Here's the W.I.P.