Wizard - working on

Something about the wizard ink drawing scream out to me to be polished up and finishing in Illustrator. I actually have worked in Illustrator for a bit so it's great to be back working in it. Sometimes I get sick of doing things digitally 'cause it all feels too machine; the process and not the actual work. I spend too much time worrying about getting illustrations done and not enough time just draw and exploring things again. I've got to find a new balance of the two again.

Girls and one Old man

I've been sick most of this week and I swear I probably fried my brain with that fever, but I managed to sketch a bit. Now that's something, I think. On an interesting note, I passed the two year anniversary of me creating this blog and actually maintaining it.

More Doodles

More recent doodles. I should get back to drawing those animal characters one day. It's nice to revisit old characters after awhile 'cause there always to be so much change and (hopefully) improvement. On the viking note, I don't know why but I feel like drawing them at the moment. I should get one into a finished illustration.

Doodle - Viking

I got around to inking this. I liked how he turned out with the posture and pose.

Dragon and Music

Well I finished these two though I'm still a bit unsure about the background for the musical one. I wanted to use that tan background a lot for the dragon piece, but it just didn't work. A lot of times when I work, I put down a solid or gradient background so I can get a sense of the colours I want to use. Sometimes I end up using that background to develop a colour scheme and othertimes near the end of the illustration, that background colour just doesn't work at all anymore and it takes a bit of away time to actually see it.

Musical Duo - Colour Rough

Almost done. I'm liking the colours. I originally had one of the suits as green, but it was too green like St. Patrick's day celebration green.

Musical Duo

Back to drawing once more.