Chinese Dress ... finished

I'm almost finished ... just have to add the texture to the background which is going to take an hour or two. I seriously need to find a quicker way to do this, but it's looking really good so far.

EDIT: finished ....

EDIT2: I looked the sketch and thought it looked cool just with the lines so I thought i'd have just white and red and the texture.

Chinese Dress

I just wanted to draw a Chinese dress ... I know the name of it, but I'm too lazy to try to spend it phonetically. As someone pointed out, it works well in red and I'll hopefully keep that kind of pallette when I re-do this in illustrator.

EDIT: I've added the rough linework of the Illustrator version. I'm hoping to finish it before the end of this coming week. I'm going to try doing the hatching completely freehand (ie. without copying and pasting the lines which felt like they were taking forever that way).

Winter Girl aka Girl with Coat in Colour

So I ended up finishing this illustration over doing school work .... probably not the smartest of things, but I need a break to do what I wanted. It's odd that I'm sorta sick of the image after working on it straight from yesternight to tonite. Oh well, I'm sure I'll appreciate it after a rest. I like how it turned out, but I'm not sure if the background hatching works well hence why I dropped the opacity on it. Looking at it, the scene one feels more successful as an illustration over the monochrome. I'll probably have to take the monochrome into photoshop to give it some finishing touches.

God of Modern Medicine

Here are the next roughs for my thesis. I'm still not sure about Osiris yet so I won't be posting that yet. Here's the God of Modern Medicine. I sorta like him dark and creepy. The concept is him standing there in a room filled with pill containers with people trapped inside as drugged up worshippers or what not. I find that there's a pseudo-social commentary going on that's not really intentional ... well not specifically intentional I guess though it could be my unconscious speaking through.

Girl with Coat

Just working on digital again though I'm trying to find a way to bring in the textures like I'm doing with the pen though I won't be using live trace. I just can't stand that feature for some odd reason; maybe I'm just a bit old school in that regards like anyone that'll argue about polygom lasso and magnetic lasso in Photoshop. Anyways ... outside of the realm of the technicals, the top is the original ink drawing and the bottom is the Illustrator version of it. I'm hoping to have it finished by Monday, but with everything I have to do I doubt it.

EDIT: Added a really rough colour version that I was testing things out with. The stimpling is working better than I thought as long as I dont use true black on it.

Re-do

So I had to basically re-do both illustration from scratch. I honestly have to start getting these textures digitized and work on everything digitally or scan the line art and get a good printer to print it again on watercolour paper. It's too much work. Oh well, there's still things I want to fix on these two, but considering I've been working on them endlessly since who knows how long I'm going to stop for now. These are what I'm going to present for the "mega-crit" .... I love new art and design words; they're always so special.

Train God - colour

I'm starting to work on the colour for the Train God. It's going to be a lot of work.