Queen's Best Friend

Long time no post. I have some backlogged sketches I need to show, but I'm going to start out with something new I've been trying lately: Tshirt designs! I never thought I'd find myself designing t-shirts and enjoying the heck out of it, but it's happened. We can't predict everything. I entered the last two Shirt.Woot derbies, and I'll start by posting this week's entry. The topic is England:

View the in-derby entry here
I might be the only one, but the corgis were my favorite part of the opening ceremony for the London Olympics this year. They were ADORABLE, so there was no way I could pass up the chance to do a corgi-related design for this week's derby.

Riven

Here's a quick sketch of Riven from League of Legends in her alternate Redeemed costume.

I love her hood.

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Headdress

Just a sketchy sketch from yesterday evening

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Dragon Rider Final + Happy April

Well, after working on this for the better part of the day, my entry for this week's CHoW is finally complete!

I was lazy and didn't take off the borders for my final entry illustration, but deal with it...I worked on it all day! :]

I'm SO MAD though because Photoshop crashed randomly near the end (luckily right after saving my illustration), so I lost my character turn-around and had to redo it really quickly. It's a little ugly because of that, and I didn't get to refine the dragon on the ref sheet much at all. Ah well, I'm happy that I stuck with it and finished my entry!

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Stormy

MORE DRAGONS:

I'm happy to finally work on a bit of the background, but I'm still avoiding the (currently) broken castle walls because I'm still unsure if I like them. I AM a fan of the stormy sky though - clouds are fun to render. In the last WIP I'm finally getting to some light..it was looking terribly flat before. I've still got a lot of work to do with the light tomorrow before I turn it in to the ChoW.

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