Mouths, and my finished self portrait.

WIP of my new self portrait. Mirror used for ref.

So, I lied. Here's one more WIP before I send my tablet in for repair tomorrow. I just came back from an awesome gallery reception for some local game artists/illustrators, and it inspired me to poke through my folder of older, abandoned concepts and see if there wasn't something worth re-visiting. I decided it was time to take another stab at a Conceptart.org Character of the Week entry I did forever ago for the evil genie prompt. I won't post the link to my original entry, as it may induce eye bleeding, but this one is already shaping up to be a marked improvement.

I may take the time to do some thumbnails and plot this idea out properly in the morning; for now, I'm enjoying playing with the light in it.

More new things. Here we have a WIP of a character I decided to render from the set of shape studies I did below. Beneath that one is an illustration I started last week that I'll finish as soon as my tablet comes back from repair.

Here's a page of life drawings from the last couple of weeks. I haven't been going out as much, so I haven't had a chance to do people observation in a while. It was nice to do some again.

Also included is a doodle from my sketchbook that I decided to color. I picked at it over the course of a week, and here was the result. I kept it rough, mostly because I was doing this as a brush test rather than as a final image.

Girl in the Big City

Just for fun.

Still practicing my brushwork and values; here's an onion study I worked on this afternoon.

Trying out a new painting style. Really, this is the sort of thing I've been working towards for a while-- when it comes to rendering, I prefer painterly vs. photo-realistic.

Here's the color version of my self-portrait.

Here's a WIP of my new self portrait for the year. A color version is in the works.

I promise I'm not angry in this picture. It's just hard to keep a smile when your neck is crooked that way for an hour and a half.