Year: 2013 - Page 2 - Landy’s Sketchblog

Fixing up Vale

Posted on April 22, 2013

This is one I started at the beginning of the month, but I really disliked the colors. I tried to remedy some things today:

Here’s how it looked before:

Something about it still dissatisfies me, though – I think when I did the original drawing I didn’t plan it very well so the composition is blah, and even though I tried to fix some things it might not be fixable at this point without just doing a new drawing, which maybe I should do instead.

Or maybe I’ll just crop it, because I did like how the head was turning out:

When it’s just the head there are some parts about the color I like better in the before version than the after:

Lanterns

Posted on April 20, 2013

Started this earlier tonight instead of doing something productive…

Seawater

Posted on April 19, 2013

I did this supposed-to-be-a-quick-sketch that I spent longer on that I should have. You know how they say to add a figure to add interest to landscape/environment images, but this –

looks much better to me –

than this. I even tried moving the hawkman around (he was originally much larger and in the top-half of the image), changed his scale, tilted him, etc. None of it looked as good as just having that open space there.

Lots of sketches

Posted on April 11, 2013

I was pretty productive today!

This is a very quickly done character concept, I don’t think it was more than 3 hours. It still needs to be refined.

This was the first thing I colored today. I wanted to sketch and try a more relaxed technique of just starting with color, adding line occasionally on top of the same layer if needed, then the lines would naturally eventually be painted over.

I felt like attempting some city sketches, this was the first one.

This was the second one. It’s the only one I used a photo reference for (a photo I took in NYC looking down a deserted alley in Chinatown), and oddly enough I think it’s the weakest one.