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egypturnashI spent some time poking through the dusty recesses of my art directories. I have a sub-directory for each year since I've been using this machine.
I found a couple of interesting unfinished images from when my methods were in transition - I'd settled on Illustrator as my tool of choice, but I hadn't taken the plunge of working without outlines yet. They're both me starting to try to ditch the step of inking my drawing and keeping those lines into the final picture.
(from November 1999)
I was fooling around with accents derived from crop circles around then; I think the sketchbook this was drawn in might've had a huge crop-circlly design receding into perspective depth on the front of it. The conceit is that this is some sort of demon girl crouching there, coming through a Majickq Portal of some kind. Mystic energy is coruscating around the edges of the portal, and where she touches the ground of this place.
I think I was planning to do 'realistic' shading on her. I'm not sure. I think I never got the basic color scheme to something I liked; I certainly don't like the orangey-pink against the brown now.
(from February 2000)
(Yes, it's huge; that's the point, isn't it? This tiger gal is presumably kinda big and imposing - but she took down this big ol' mech with, presumably, nothing but her sword, and now she's posing in front of her kill.)
...I really have no idea where I planned to go, technically, after drawing outlines with the pen tool. I have two other images in a stage like this, and I cannot imagine what the next step would be. I do like this design for tiger face markings. I've gotten out of the habits of reference and construction; I need to put some time into both again. Five years ago I was really working at drawing solidly, and it shows. My stuff right now is okay, but I fake it a lot. Looking at this old stuff, I feel like I need to get some construction back into my drawings, for that extra contrast with the wild rubber distortion and swirl.
I found a couple of interesting unfinished images from when my methods were in transition - I'd settled on Illustrator as my tool of choice, but I hadn't taken the plunge of working without outlines yet. They're both me starting to try to ditch the step of inking my drawing and keeping those lines into the final picture.
(from November 1999)
I was fooling around with accents derived from crop circles around then; I think the sketchbook this was drawn in might've had a huge crop-circlly design receding into perspective depth on the front of it. The conceit is that this is some sort of demon girl crouching there, coming through a Majickq Portal of some kind. Mystic energy is coruscating around the edges of the portal, and where she touches the ground of this place.
I think I was planning to do 'realistic' shading on her. I'm not sure. I think I never got the basic color scheme to something I liked; I certainly don't like the orangey-pink against the brown now.
(from February 2000)
(Yes, it's huge; that's the point, isn't it? This tiger gal is presumably kinda big and imposing - but she took down this big ol' mech with, presumably, nothing but her sword, and now she's posing in front of her kill.)
...I really have no idea where I planned to go, technically, after drawing outlines with the pen tool. I have two other images in a stage like this, and I cannot imagine what the next step would be. I do like this design for tiger face markings. I've gotten out of the habits of reference and construction; I need to put some time into both again. Five years ago I was really working at drawing solidly, and it shows. My stuff right now is okay, but I fake it a lot. Looking at this old stuff, I feel like I need to get some construction back into my drawings, for that extra contrast with the wild rubber distortion and swirl.