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Would you go into battle with one of these? I had a lot of fun coming up with completely different designs for a battle shield. Can you imagine a Viking dressed up in Steampunk fashion his shield crest clockwork gears? How about Pirates who I don't think use shields, not according to Captain Jack (Johnny Depp). Still I thought, if they did, their crests would probably be their Jolly Rogers, but how already over done. So why not the Pirate's Face. Hehehe. And then on a more serious note a tribal shield.

Well, here is the full version of where this silhouette started and ended. If I were to develop one I would choose 8 or 14. Which would you choose?

Well, its time to do some traditional Mech designing. Helps me think outside the box and get some practice in line work within the painted silhouettes.

The Facebook group Team Awesome is dedicated to WIPs and Critiques. This is a cool concept
figure that I took and did a quick draw over that showed some of the character flaws. Grant it, my figure is still off but it is enough for Luka to progress his figure drawing skills. Plus I was not the only one critiquing his work.
















The first thing I did was draw an eight heads high skeletal figure next to the original in order to get the proportions correct.


Next I drew the skeletal figure in position over Luka's character in blue. The green line points out how to draw from the belly button through the nipples to get where the shoulder placement should go.


This is without Luka's figure in the background.

Awhile back there was a thread where someone asked the FAA members if they did art on a daily basis. The answers varied, yes, no, and at least art related. I began wondering what some of the artist's sketchbooks might look like. Mine is now a digital sketchbook. And I do do art everyday in it.

Rather than overlap the same content that I have in my blogger blog I've decided to make this my sketchbook blog. I will post works from my sketchbook. Some of these will make it to a finished salable state and many more will not. Most will remain unfinished indefinitely. You will see a lot of silhouettes here as I have picked up doing these in the last year not only for illustration and graphic design work, but also for fine art as well. Which is where we will start today.

These are three quick thumbnail landscapes I did one evening. I just started painting in shapes being in a landscape mood. If you cannot see the image please go to my sketchbook gallery the password is sketches. There is one size available if you really feel you have to have this rough. It is only really there because FAA requires a price on any work posted.

It is a new year and I've started a new painting. I am a lover of texture in artwork even when it is digital. I was cropping some photos yesterday and found this one photo texture I had taken of some paint on the street, pretty soon I had dropped cropping the photo to playing with textures, then as a form developed I knew this was going to be painting I want to develop further. Shown here is the work in so far. I don't have a formal title yet, just a working titleŃSnow MaidenŃso I can find it in my files. Hope you enjoy it.

Whoo-hoo, my 500 gig Western Digital arrived and I've been busy cleaning off my system, backing up. What a relief. My computer is getting older and I was afraid it was going to crash before I could get artwork backed up somewhere. I'm going to have to take it in and see if I can't get the fan and cd/dvd looked at. It's getting too hot at times and the fan has started whining in spite of having an external fan and ice pack under the board the laptop sits on. I could use a newer macbook pro with larger hard drive (mine is a 160 g) but that will have to wait.

Well back to backup. =)

Okay, after some input I have made a longer version of the breakdown video THUNDER IN THE DISTANCE. Feel free to leave comments here. =)

Okay first blog post, I'll keep it short. This is a quick breakdown of the following artwork. Enjoy!