Girl with a bat.

All right here we go, I am currently sorting out the perspective of the background and finishing that off. This is a big image dump and I am going to try explain what has happened between all stages.

This is still going to be read down to up like the other post.

Background music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LotK800AgNw

I actually think I am going to call it done now.

Background work mostly. I think I manage to get some "dividers" in to make her seem less giant. Next on the list it to fix those cool looking Frisbee looking bike tires and those pillars.

Background work, currently trying to cheat a bit so she doesn't look like a giant.

I am not to fond of how the trees are turning out currently, but well see how it goes. Sorting the perspective out and adding things to the background.

Same deal really.

Redrew her arm and started on the background, I am aiming to keep that simple. I also colored the buttons on the dress to make them stick out more.

Redrew her head and cut the fringe a bit as I saw it did not work as well as I wanted with it covering the top of her eyelids.

At this part I felt something was not working out, I really liked the whole chipmunk appearance but the head really put me off. Added a yellow stripe to her dress to lift out the volume of it.

Added a few accessories to her, the hair bun was added to put even more empathize on the soft appearance. This is done to make the bat stick out.

At this stage I started to play around with her hair and decided to keep it in the same mood as the rest of here character: very soft. However, I started to get trouble with the eyes so I took a break to study them and experimented with different colors.

I actually started this one out doodling and putting down color to see how fast I could get a decent sketch out. So the big shapes of colors was decided very early.

The missing update.

You can call it vacation if you want. However I felt I ran into a block and to combat that block I put aside time to study up on stuff. And during this period I got more and more impressed with certain Japanese illustrators and animators due to how little they could use to portray volume and I started to see a correlation between certain shapes and the portrayal of volume.

Initially I started studying anatomy to work on my line confidence so I could transfer the same school of thought over to my brushwork since I figured that confidence stems from knowing (or telling yourself you know).

A lot of the stuff was on paper which I probably won't scan in.

Here are some stuff, I might update with more.

 Currently working on this one. Started out with me just wanting to see If I could draw some cute in contrast to the depressing knights.

I did some poses of Chun-Li as a warm up. And decided to push it a little. I am going to finish this one.

This is mostly a try to transfer over some of the ideas from line art into brushwork.

That's it for now, I am slowly starting up this machine again after this "vacation" expect more posts of varying quality.

Twitchstreaming.

Tried out some twitch streaming today. It was quite enjoyable actually. My main goal was to work on the boobplate picture. I have put it aside for a long time now but I feel like it's time to get it done.

I did side track a bit and ended up doodling something I will probably work more on in the future.

Oh! here is the twitch link.

So far I have no regular schedule planned but I do plan on announcing on twitter when I stream.

Which is here.

More godis from stream.

Vargatinget

Well, I am back again. For this one I am mostly going to focus on the atmosphere of the picture. Blocking up in grayscale first and then moving over to coloring.

Young Julius Belmont.

Young Julius Belmont.

Makoto

Fixed her hair a bit, thinking of adding a bag in her hand. I am going to work on it a bit more then I am calling it.

Redrew a few lines and fixed some colors, added shadow for weight and redid the head and anatomy so she would actually look like Makoto. Having some trouble with the hair because most pictures I find and the way you draw the "tomboy" hair is not clicking with me.

Makoto from street fighter. Trying some stuff out and it seems to be working.


I am going to try using this post as a testing ground for dumping sketches that are attached to the current work at the bottom of the post. So if this layout doesn't work I will probably not use it anymore.

From watching the typical tomboy haircut variations I can find it seems like this is the way I should think when It comes to drawing it. Makoto's hair is layerd ontop of smaller bundles of hair because the general idea seems to be "pull the hair out and slice it off".

Cyberbrain and a heads up on this blog.

Constructed some more, planning on hammering it out with grey and paint it all over with color. I am currently not so found of the hole right now.

Cyberbrain sketch.

Anyways, I have turned off the ability to leave a comment on this blog because I want to this place to be my "open" playground or backyard for me to dump stuff on, this is not because I am afraid of malicious comments or anything like that, It's just me not wanting to have any kind of discussion on this site. I am open for discussion on other places, just not here.

That said, you can find me on most of the places linked in the about me there. I have also fired up my twitter account a bit. You can find it here: https://twitter.com/gameguran