21 Day Challenge: Day 9

Today's reference is from DeviantArt stock: http://ashtrayheartromina.deviantart.com/art/22-414393093
I do love to draw people, though I realized after doing so many landscapes in a row, my method for starting a portrait has changed slightly where I'm blocking more of my shapes in at the beginning rather than sketching shapes in. Interesting..

Done in Photoshop

Half Elf Warlock WIP

Long time no post. Today I have a new character drawing from a DnD 5e game we just started playing. Our group is going through the Wizards campaign, Hoard of the Dragon Queen in which I'm playing a half elf warlock. I'm about half finished with the illustration that I started during our session.

I haven't started applying any real light source and only just threw on the colors with multiply/overlay layers so there's a lot of clean up and rendering to do!

Photoshop CS5 & Intuos 5

One Good Day

I finally finished this one up! It was a good exercise with color, light, and perspective.

Photoshop, Intuos 5

Armor Sets - Full Body

Here are the final armor designs and illustrations I worked on for Iron Wind Studios. Working on the final set of armor was a lot more fun since it was futuristic and didn't involve as much research and allowed more creative freedom.

Everything was done in Photoshop CS5.

Wood Elf Monk

I recently started playing an all online DnD game with some friends out of state. We are trying out the playtest rules for DnD Next, and so far it's a little strange getting used to (saving throws in particular) but I like it. I'm playing a wood elf monk and drew a quick portrait of her during our first session a couple weekends back.

Done in Photoshop CS5.

Armor Sets - Torso

Here are some more armor designs and illustrations I worked on last year for Iron Wind Studios.

And here are the illustrations.

All Photoshop. I have one last set to post.

Armor Sets - Helmet

Hello!

Long time no post. I've been focusing a ton of time on a contract lately that should be wrapping up soon which will come with a ton of sketches. For now, I realized I never posted the sketches/illustrations for some freelancing I did with Iron Wind Studios last spring/summer. They produce rule books and miniatures for an original table top wargame system/setting. I worked on illustrations for their armor sets.

To start with, here are the three helmets' designs.

I had to do much more research to create these designs than usual, because I was very unfamiliar with military equipment in general. In the end, they turned out pretty believable even with my inexperience. Here are the illustrations.

Everything was done in Photoshop CS5. I'll post again soon with the other armor sets!

Syndral Final and WIPs

First off, here is the final illustration for the Syndral creature created for HeroCraft:

Here are the progress shorts I saved out while I was rendering the creature.

 Lineart

 Basic Light

Texturizing

This process was done in Photoshop. I think the final time on this was around 7-9 hours.

Varg Final Illustration

Following up on the last post with the final illustration of the Varg for HeroCraft.

This piece was done in Photoshop and I'd estimate the time at around 10 hours.