Pokemon Art Collab. Pt.2

Here's the second part - a superhero variety of Mantine

Random words = Random picture

I put out a tweet that I would mix the first three responses into ...something.
So with "Snuffleupagus", "Zombie Alien Pirate" and "Australian Tallywhacker" to work with, I painted up the following critter:

Yoda Painting

Here's a digitally-painted Yoda.

Painting metal is always a bit of a task - all metal is reflective, catching and disbursing light and shadow and distorting images and such, and the circular lightsaber handle is an interesting exercise in painting polished metal.

If not for Scott Johnson's Intro to Digital Painting course, I would have wound up doing this a lot differently - and it wouldn't have looked this good. If you're looking to learn how to paint - digitally or on a physical canvas, his course over at Comic Experience is worth every penny.

Poseidon & Pirates

This is a blending of two of the Sketch_Dailies twitter topics: the pirate Anne Bonny and Poseidon.  I figured the Greek God of the Sea might not be too keen on pirates causing wrecks and dumping corpses into his domain without his express consent.

Water effects are fun to play with, but can difficult to get right in a convincing manner.

More Sketch Dailies

I've not been doing any Sketch Dailies daily topics on twitter.  Instead, I've been making conglomerations and amalgamation-type imagery.

Below is one:  Covers the topics of Dick Tracy, Casper the Friendly Ghost, Space Invaders and Gaston from Beauty & the Beast.

I like digital painting, and want to spend more time on it - but I'm impatient and often don't allow myself the time to do it up proper, and just whip something [like this] off quickly.

Old and New with a touch of advice

I painted this a few years ago:

And I painted this last night.

As an artist, it's easy to look back at previous works and want to improve something. And sometimes, in the trying, you recognize that it doesn't need to be improved and is fine just as it is. ...and sometimes when you try to improve on something that's fine as it is... the results are less than satisfactory.

Art is art is art - and sometimes, as an artist, you gotta just like your own work, slit that inner-critic's throat to silence it long enough to like your own art.