figure stuff and a comic book update

busy busy busy




two gouache / ink studies

and jumping into oils again, did this quick block in the other day, happy with it so far i think - i might have jumped into the lights too quickly though, its looking chalky. and just random temperature stuff is bugging me. ive got another class session on the pose, so im looking forward to it



here's the start of my 12 page comic that i've been tasked to do. its an adaptation of liam o'flaherty's 'the sniper' - looking forward to finally taking a story to finish, i'll throw up the first round of my roughs - but most of these pages have changed dramatically since i first scanned this in.



below is just some sketching - i had an idea of what i wanted the main character to look like before i began, so some of them look really similar




i decided to go with this direction, but more drawing is being done since i'm still in these planning stages - so small changes may occur



anyway, more to come - ive got 2 days to do a star wars illustration - i hope i wake up tommorow amped and ready to go

cheers,
tyler

Yeesh

What a crazy month that was? Being loaded up with rubbish classes(non studio ones) is putting a damper on things for me creatively I think - ah well, gota move forward!

Here's what I've been up to the past couple of weeks, in no particular order

here's an album cover for Donuts by J Dilla! i had so much fun here!!

i listened to the album a couple of times on loop to get a general feel for it all and noticed how fun the whole album was, and all i could think of was back in the day when i was sitting either in church or at school, all i loved to do was draw these silly scenes of buildings being destroyed by godzilla while being attacked by ninjas! and although this one doesnt have any ninjas or godzilla, it does have a really fun monster i came up with (more on that later) eating some giant donuts while a couple of rad tanks are about to fire on him if he causes anymore chaos!




the illustrations is finished for the most part, i'm going to add text and such later(along with some scans of process and monster design)

figure/life studies - been exploring other mediums and approaches during a couple of sessions which I doodled, painted, experimented, etc.. these are the ones I thought were more successful. the model was posed for 2 class sessions, and to be honest, im starting to learn how much i dont enjoy long poses - it always feels like such a time dump and the longer i stand infront of it the more and more i feel like wiping it off with a towel and starting fresh. i see the purpose and direction of a long pose, ive experienced them first hand, but lately ive just been wanting to do what i feel is fun.

anyway, mediums used in this order, pastel..watercolor/coloredpencil..watercolor/gouache...gouache









moving onto some illustrations

here's one ive done about Pat Robertson, the old senile man who spouts ridiculous things dealing with religion. i thought the only way to balance that ridiculousness was to have him playing puppet master with a little Jesus doll

heres some process



and the final



theres some things i like and somethings im frustrated and fed up with haha - but it was a fun one to do

and just some more randomness; sketchbook pages and media experiments














anyway, this weekend i'll be at MegaCon in Orlando, FL at the Ringling College of Art booth , come on by and say hi if youre in the area!!

cheers,
tyler