Zodiac introduction

As one of my new years resolutions, I decided I would make a "calendar". In essence, by the time 2014 is over, I want to have made 12 refined illustrations, once a month, each depicting the zodiac predominant for that month.

January is almost over, and I'm pretty happy to say that Capricorn, the first sign, is completed. This is a sketch and doodle blog though, so I thought I'd post some WIPs first.

Here are the initial sketch, Pencils, and some color progress.

Stay tuned for the final version tomorrow!

Happy New Year!

And for my first post of 2014 (already?! can you believe it?), I have more stuff for Abel!

After asking for input, and seeing people's reaction to the previews concept, I narrowed it down to two very similar ones:

And then I started working on some color schemes. Unfortunately, I'm on a trip, and left the sketchbook withall his color notes home, so for now I'm just doing some tests.

I think he's coming along quite nicely, and I'm very excited for it.

A bit of a disclaimer: The textures in the fabrics will change, I kind of just slapped on something from google for the test drive, but once I'm finalizing I'll hand paint mine in.

As usual, thanks for looking!

Abel concepting

After  a while, I finally came back to this universe of mine, and have started working on Judas's brother, Abel.

As with Judas, I have done some sketches to try some different silhouettes. Now I'm on the process of narrowing this down to get a final design.

I'm going or something a little bit softer than what Judas wears, but still prince-ish.

Stay tuned for more!

Spaced Out

Oops. These are not two monsters from that challenge I'm supposed to be doing. I do plan to finish it, but I ran into a bit of a block and these two pieces are how I attempted to break through it.
I ended up with a scifi-ish skyline, because it lets me get away with a lot of fun stuff.

The "daytime" version was a happy accident I liked quite a bit, so I decided to keep both versions.

Monster Challenge 03

Continuing on the challenge, here is a Merman, and a Spider lady. The Merman is based on veiltail goldfish but with a different color scheme of course. And for spider lady I just had fun creating shapes in her legs; not sure if spiders like that actually exist.

I guess this is a white/silver hair post. Thanks for watching!

Monster Challenge 02

Here are the next two of the series, an Undine and a Naga.

I didn't use much of a reference for this two, but the Naga is mostly a reincarnation of a character I had done previously.
Thanks for looking!

Monster Challenge 01

I started doing a daily monster challenge with a friend, where you draw a different sort of anthropomorphic creature each day. We are now on day 5, but I had forgotten to start posting those here. The first two, were a harpy, and a centaur.

She is loosely based on a quetzal, and he is sort of an appaloosa. To those who follow my work, you might recognize his face from my portrait series.
I'll  keep posting these two at a time, so stay tuned tomorrow for the next batch!