Not so steel

Do you remember when I said all my stuff ends up in that far-from-being-finished stage?

I've got another one of these, and SPOILER ALLERT - it doesn't look good.

Here is my miserable process. Enjoy, and do not repeat my mistakes.

1. Sketched that guy in my organizer from 2012... Has lines, is outdated, but the paper it's made of is great. Then I added the earpads (I believe that's how they're called), and some highlights digitally.

2. Added some basic colours and started to paint over the sketch.

3. And here's the moment I decided I don't like what I see... So I scrapped that, blurred, and stuff.

4. I drew plains of the nose, paint over it, and did the same thing to cheekbone.

5. Darkened up entire image to bring up some lights. Also I painted that ball to keep in mind where from the light comes and what's the colour of his skin, tho' I didn't use it even once.

6. ...and I scraped everything once more. If you don't like it - scrap it and redraw. I think that's the main reason I have nothing to share with you.

7. Darkened up one side of his face (or rather something that supposed to be his face), and lightened up background, to make him pop-out more from the background and give myself some values to play with. Oh...

8. Scrapped it once more. Brought greyscale again, to not get distracted by colours. Drew it again with planes of the face, to have something to follow later. I thing at this point I've started using references. Made his skull more prominent. He seemed a bit to chubby in earlier versions.

9. Added some flats for armour, earpads and that horn thingy on his head.

10. Sorry about the "how to draw an owl - tutorial" syndrome, but I forgot to save all the steps. I just painted in some shadows on another layer.

11. Brought the colours again by adding some gradient-map layers for skin, earpads, armour, and horn.

13. Painted in some lights. Same problem as I had with shadows. No step by step images.

14. I was so tired of repainting that over and over again, I just simply added a muddy background, some rim-light, and called it done. I mean not really done. Just done.

And here's .gif presenting my journey through the dark valley of hell.

By the way. That's one of the champions that you can play in Paragon. Man's name is Steel.

That's it.
So long.

Paragon and banana

Ave Caesar whatsoever!

So why am I not posting anything? Well - I was playing Paragon Closed Beta. I'm under a confidentiality agreement, so I can not post much more than this: the game is freaking cool.

For these who don't know what the paragon is - tan da da DAN! PARAGON SITE

For these who are too lazy to click the link... It's MOBA with TPS view from Epic Games (these guys from Unreal Engine). I was playing LoL (League of Legends) before it was cool. I mean from open beta, for 2 seasons, and then community happened (I mean I grew up and reading what's-not 'bout my mother and my playstyle bored me), then e-sport happened (not good e-sport, but that I-am-12-years-old-master-of-lol-and-know-fucking-everything "e-sport").
I have never had that much fun in LoL, I've got here. The gameplay itself is rather for B+/A-, but their card system that lets you create your own equipment, for every single character, and about which I sadly can't talk, is great.
When it comes to graphics, game's gorgeous. If you see the trailer, graphics in-game looks same.
Early access beta starts on March 18th. Open beta somewhen in summer. Totally worth a try.

Oh, and as long as I won't paint anything new... Get my attempt to "sill life".

For your own eyes sake - DO NOT zoom in

That *ekhem* masterpiece *ekhem* is dated on January 2014.
I didn't set up the scene, nor even had any references... Again twisted mind of mine gives me vague picture of my painting objects.

That's not good thing if you want to learn anything. I should have paint that from reference first and then try repainting it with the knowledge I acquired.

Feel entertained. Or not. It's up to you.

So long.

Monthly scraps - Feb 2016

This month even less of them.

I kind of switched to pencil and paper for my day-to-day sketching.
Not that I will not draw on tablet, but well... My "work station" is not as mobile as my notebook.
Beside, I really like the feel that drawing with pencil gives.

DO NOT zoom in. I dare you. I double dare you.

Guess who's on the left. It's not hard.


So long.