Hitting the "will I ruin it by going on?" moment....

Here's the image in question where I earlier posted "The question is... I am coming to the point where my brain is loosing it's grip on the image (which I have been at for days), and I am starting to get worried about ruining it by keep going... but, but, BUT I can see some glaring mistakes... Should I go on? I need a cup of something to think about that...."

I feel like I have learned tons of this image so far, when it comes to light and colour. I managed to get some rather nice photos while the winter sun (that barely peeks up during winter here) was making the world pretty last week. So yes, I am my own model again, hehe.

I think I will indeed have a cup of rum and coffee now, paint something else, and look at it again tomorrow and fix the most glaring ones that hits me then, then leave it. :) 

Futuristic once-human oracle WIP

So, this time the CGHUB 2D Drawing Jam caught my attention, futuristic once-human oracle in a future with races/species close in looks to what we'd imagine demons and angels today.


Took the one to the upper right, worked some more on it, and then started detailing. Still mirroring, gonna step away from that at a later stage. Progress so far:

Did some thumbs to get me going, it was the one to the upper right I took, worked some more on it, and then started detailing.

And this is what ended up being the final in the last anatomicae:

Skeleton Dance work

The Anatomicae challenge right now is Skeleton Dance, and I wanted to have a go at it, since if there's one thing I really should do it's doing proper anatomy studies, I don't think I've ever actually sat down and drawn a full skeleton, just knowing how they basically work in a body without any  more than generic knowledge.

I got so stuck though, I couldn't manage to find a setting and environment to put them in, and they looked kind of alone there all by themselves. But since I really want to have a final to submit.... After giving it several tries, I ended up going against my usual realistic approach.

Here's the sketch work:

Speed Environments

I don't do all that much enviros, so I decided to do some speed ones. I thought I kind of should. :)

Enjoy. :)

Self Portrait Day 2012

So, Nov 1st is always Self Portrait Day. So I had to do one, just like most of my artsy friends. ;)

Anyways, when I woke up today, I didn't feel too great, but after coffee, tea with honey, shower, make up and whatever else I could find, I started to look somewhat human.

So here's the end result:

There's deception though. Because this is basically what I looked like this morning....:

Dad Wizard

So this one comes with a story.

The other day, our daughter sat and waved a wand around, pretending to do magic. I asked her if she was a wizard. Her answer? "Nope, I am dad."

So here he is, my husband. :)

Demon Daughter?

Well, I was setting out to make a demon. According to my husband she currently looks more like a daughter of Pan. :P

Still in progress. Changed the position of the ear a few times. The clothes have changed both in what kind of clothes they are and colour, so that's why it looks so disjointed there at the moment, can't bounce the light properly before I manage to settle on a colour. Also, I think I have been through three or four sets of horns, I think this is the best one so far, even though my plan was to have several small ones with ridges over her forehead. She looked too Klingon. :P

C&C welcome, of course. :)