Try something new

I usually like trying new things, especially if it'll let me expand my skills and hone or stretch my abilities.

So for this, I wanted to kind of reverse my normal method.
A sketch layer, a shade layer, and everything else on one layer. Line-art in the colour of the item. Fill it in a slightly different shade of same colour.

Not a terrible re-imagining for Sketch_Dailies' topic of The Riddler, but if you figure he's wearing a bald-cap, and a wig on top of it... plus the eye-mask, well, maybe that ain't too bad. Most of the redesign went into the trade-mark ?-cane.  A bit more short-blade sickle, and I figured hey, green & purple, a lot of weapons nowadays have circles punched through them for weight balancing and what-not, why not do that, but fill'em with the other costume colour ? I think I spent 2 hours start to finish, with a lot of revision in the sketch phase.

While most of the picture could burn, I am really please with how Edward's shoes came out.

Idle painting

Just a l'il skully design I thought I'd paint up from an idle sketch.

Quick sketch & colour

Whenever I doodle for myself, I almost always shortchange myself and run out of room for the feet. Makes me worry a little bit.

Anyhow, here's a gunslinger with some simple wash colour and even simpler gradient background.

Goodbye 2013, Hello 2014

Normally I don't generally care, or celebrate things like the New Year... really, I mean, if not for certain Roman Caesars wanting to be immortal, we'd still have a 10-month calendar.  So it seems to me that the celebrating the change-over of one day into another because of the end of a numerically dated sheetbook seems kind of silly... but hey, any excuse for a booze-up, right? That's what people want, it seems.

so.. last sketch of 2013, first of 2014.. because hey, we have to mark these things down and take note, right? Right. Though a lot of days I wonder why.