Wizard #7

A fearsome necromancer reveals his true face on the eve of battle.  This one was inspired by pairing up medieval armor with the extravagant fabrics from the painting Napoleon on His Imperial Throne (Jean-Auguste Dominique, 1806).  It is on this dramatic note Wizard Week ends.  I enjoyed this, it got me back into daily drawing.  I will do this again next year (given I remember it, I hope).

Wizard #6

This scurvy sorcerer shares a smoke with his scallywaggish parrot.

Wizard #5

Today's wizard is my own character, Trudy.  She loves experimenting with her electrical powers, which sometimes leads to dead appliances.  Raw magical voltage tends to fry one's phone more often than not.

Wizard #4

Today's wizard is attempting to communicate with the spirit eclipsing the Sun.

Wizard Week #3

Day three of Wizard Week: pyromancer in a limited color palette.

Wizard Week #2

Today's Wizard Week sketch is a young elf maiden-mage.  She's a leftover from a stillborn fantasy story idea years ago, and may yet have potential.  (As a mage, not a dragon snack.)

"No, I don't care who told you so, I do not taste like grapes..."

Character development sketches.

Wizard Week

A couple artists in my area got together to start "Wizard Week" in the vein of Shark Week, Inktober, and so on.  It sounded like a fun idea, so I joined in, and that is how this power metal wizard came to be.  Look out for a new wizard each day this week!

Sketches 4/2/15 - Dark Princess

This was really an experiment to see if a typical medieval princess could give off power metal vibes.  If "power metal vibes" are defined as "guarded, brooding, wears expensive dark silk clothing, occasionally howls incoherent lyrics", then I believe I have succeeded.

The First Alien of Spring

Spring began a few days ago, the weather's getting warmer, the trees are blossoming again, and I celebrate it by drawing alien mercenaries.  It all makes sense, I swear.

Our spiky friend here, code-named Shrapnel, is an older character who I have tweaked and modified over a few years.  At one time he was telepathic; at another he was a potential villain; at the moment, he is a special-operations soldier who may or may not be telepathic, specializes in unarmed combat and knife fighting, and keeps his goals and purposes to himself.  (And yes, he can turn off the glowy bits of the armor.  Glowy spec-ops troops are a short-lived paradox.)

Petunia Practice

Practicing for an upcoming watercolor workshop I will be attending.  This one started out a little too casual, as you'll see in the first frame of the GIF below...I got serious about it on the second or third wash, gave it my all, and I believe it ended up as a decent painting.  The petunias themselves I am most proud of, the background I'm not so sure about.  Lesson learned: take the painting seriously from start to finish, even if it's "just practice".

The watercolor workshop in question is hosted by TLC Workshops, a wonderful little program that takes place in Bothell, WA.  They bring professional illustrators and artists in to teach workshops over the course of several days.  Give them a try if you're interested in a small-class (ten to fifteen people) setting for learning illustration.