All about the leather

Just posting a commission in progress shot. I'm finally happy with the face. Everything else should be easy since I don't need to reference the rest, except maybe the girl's face. I think I'm on a leather kick, and after beating Devil May Cry 4, I decided to add more coolness to the leather jacket a la Dante. When I'm done with the basic leather coloring, I can take it into Photoshop and add some grain leather texture to the jacket too. Hopefully my client likes the coloring style so far. I refuse to ease up on the leather details, but in turn it takes me longer to finish a painting. Well, what can you do right?

Commission Sketches

It's been a while since I did much sketching, and I think I'm getting faster/neater at it. I have to really force myself not to sketch too messily because it just takes longer to paint clean details later. Anyway, these sketches are for commissions. The first one gave me some composition trouble since the client requested the poses like this. I'm not too sure what I'll do with the negative space above the girl's head.

The next three are supposed to be Rosa from FF4. I'm going to do her in a theme similar to what I did with the FFX2 girls. I chose succubus as the theme/job for her and I would've added more wings and clothing/costume but I wanted to settle on a pose first. I personally like the third pose for how dynamic it is, but the first sketch is more fleshed out in terms of the succubus idea. I like the idea of a mix of leathery and feathery wings. On a side note, I really need to work on drawing feet.

Dante Must Die - Close Up Details

I guess I should use this blog to post things like this. Here are close-ups to the last pic I did. You can see the whole image on deviantart.

I've decided that maybe I should do a LOT more speed paintings considering I seem to take far too long to do any art and I seem to be too detail-oriented. Honestly, I should beef up my computer so I could actually use Photoshop and Painter without fear of crashing them. I would love to be able to make much higher-resolution art. I got my copy of Exotique 3 in the mail yesterday and I feel like I want to submit art, except that my work is never large enough D: If I made larger art, I could also make prints of them. Would anyone actually buy my artwork if I had offered prints?

I'm going to start a commission journal pretty soon on DA and start taking more commissions even though I have 3 left to finish. I need to really push myself, but the good part is I actually feel like doing art lately.

First post

This is my first blog ever, and I figure it might as well be an artblog. Though I might post photos of my figure collection now and again. Finished art will still appear on my DA page, but sketches, works in progress, detail shots, and all other artwork will appear here.