So I basically made a terrible sketch (I mean really bad) and then painted over it, thank god I'm a better painter than I am a tablet sketcher. I really like the results so far. Here's a little preview now that I've finished the face. I've still got to detail the hair, and I've just completely hid the body for this because it was still the bad sketch. But overall I really like how this piece is turning out.

The Hurakan Challenge -Step 1

So I've finally got a nice rythm going with school so I found time to work on the the new challenge at art order. http://artorder.blogspot.com/2009/09/new-challenge.html

The challenge requests silhouettes of the Mayan God Hurakan. I did a few silhouettes in Alchemy that I liked as well as a few that weren't so worthy.

I think that the first two come off well as silhouettes but that the last one lost a lot of depth when i blocked in the body. These two links show the reverse silhouette that existed in the body before i had to block it in and imo offer a much better preview of my intent: ONE ---- TWO

I enjoyed one silhouette that I ended up scrapping for this particular concept which can be seen here: THREE

Lastly I'd also like to showcase another version of the first silhouette that explains the mumbo-jumbo of that snake tail: FOUR

I definitely enjoyed working with silhouettes only and it's probably something I should do a lot more when working. Silly ADD making me want to rush and freeform my way through things.

More and more

I've switched classes to be in the same class as a friend of mine. My new class is called Evolution: Genes to Genomes. I also spent most of yesterday painting a sketch from my 3e DND adventure which I ran. Receive Bacon: