Cintiq set up!

My cintiq came in!  (as most of my facebook friends and twitter followers probably already know)  I'm still getting the hang of it, but it is so much nicer than drawing with my old tablet.

Here's a simple painting I did the other day.

Cupid and Psyche character sheets

When I get bored or art blocked I like working on character sheet for stuff I'm working on.  Here are some character sheets for Cupid and Psyche.  I'm working on ones for Aphrodite right now.

I've had these character sheets finished for a bit now, but no time to do up a blog post.  I'm going to try and get better about being more regular on here.  I don't know if there will be a post on Sunday as I my cintiq is coming in at the end of the week and I'll probably be getting it set up.

"In Waiting" The Finished Film

I finished animating my short film this week, hence no post on Sunday.   I've uploaded it to Youtube and now it is time to share it here.

May I present, "In Waiting."

Time of Angels

I finished this a few weeks ago, but have only just got around to posting it up here.  I was watching the Doctor Who series 5 episodes, "Time of Angels" and "Flesh and Stone" when the idea for this came to me. 

Updated Demo Reel.

I've just updated my Demo Reel.  It has some new shots from my short film that you haven't seen yet.  I'm only five shots away from completion on that so I'm not going to do an update on my short film until it's finished.

Another Cupid and Psyche illustration

Here's the scene that follows last weeks illustration.  Although for some reason it feels a bit stretched out...I'll have to check on that.

and here are the breakdown images.

Psyche Discovers Cupid

I've been working on this piece on and off for the last couple of weeks.   I thought I'd put up a breakdown of how I worked on it.

I had a rougher sketch before this.  I refined it, figuring out better posing and started figuring out the lighting.  I also broke down Cupid's pose to get a grasp of how everything worked together.

 I created a gradient background to get a better idea of the overall lighting in the piece.  I also started a rough clean up of Cupid.

Laying down flat colors to get some idea of the local color and overall idea of what I was going for.

I started refining and getting a rough clean up of the drawing.  I moved Cupid's lower wing to a more comfortable looking position.

I did a final clean up line freehand so that it would have some variation in line.  I also put down a neutral background to lay the flat color on.

 I put down the final flat color and set what color the shadow and light would be (the two color blobs next to Psyche)

Here's the final piece.  I laid down the shadow and light and set their layers to different modes.