Complete 4 illustrations and share them!

Alright, done!..or close enough! Lesson learned - don’t do two projects at once and don’t get overly zealous when you make a lot of progress in the exciting early stages.

And here’s the other 3 illustrations, in reverse order, to have a nice consolidated post.

For my last illustration, I wanted to practice painting with more focus on colors/values, since thats something Ive never really dealt with. I spent a lot of time on a much bigger island that was supposed to be an initial layout for the island of my game project but it wasn’t turning out the way I wanted it and also was sucking up a lot of time.

So I’ve restarted on a smaller idea and here’s the progress so far. Im going to continue this in the next few days and finish things up.

I went back one last time today to put a little bit of simple shading but left the colors out. Knowing there’s about 10 days left for the dk30, I want to call this one done and move on for now to get a fourth final illustration done.

https://www.instagram.com/p/B8h0oA0JPy-/

Since last time I put some small tweaks through, mostly cleaning up the line art, making the feet beyond blocks, and redoing the head/mask a little bit. Most of my time lately has been on my other dk30 project since I started ahead on the 4 illustration target for this one.

The lower half of the pose has me wanting to rework the whole thing and fix the center of balance so I think that’s my queue to call this one done before I just iterate forever. So here’s a greyscale and a color version. I think I like the greyscale better but that usually changes once I do the final lighting/shadows on the color but maybe another time I’ll get back to that.

I continued work on my character and focused on the line art today for about 2 hours. There’s a lack of detail outside of the head and chest that I think I want to keep as is once I get to modelling this character but for the sake of this drawing, I think I’ll go back over and build out a bit more. Specifically the gloves and feet are spots I want to tweak more

Started work on a new character for about an hours worth, so here’s progress so far. This one I actually want to fuel my main character for my other game dk30 project. I’m extremely fresh to drawing anatomically correct people, or even stylized cartoonish ones. So a lot of my time was just trying to get proportions that looked right with the style. I’m really happy so far with how the perspective is turning out though, thats something I havent done much of before.

Finished up another illustration that I had going for the past week a bit before dk30 started. I tried focusing on more gradients of lighting and shadows and doing it with colors and values alone, rather than using lines/crosshatching to do shadows.

https://www.instagram.com/p/B74pUo6JmJY/

I figured I’d get a jump on dk30 and hit a drawing for inktober52 at the same time. I find I spend a lot of time on little details and meander around too much so the focus here was to try to keep it simple and knock out an illustration relatively quickly.

https://www.instagram.com/p/B7v_4nFpJ0Y/

Week 1 done!