Experimenting

Lately I've been finding that I'm becoming more and more interested in more cartoonish looks. But the painter in me still wants to give it a slightly painted look and feel. I don't think I wanna render things too much and the top image is kind of an example of that. I think any of the realistic type stuff I do should be reserved for book cover type of illustrations. I also think working like this well help me focus more on creating an environment and emotion for the characters. Rather than trying to figure out how to render some material.

The characters designs below are with flat colors. No plan to render these. Just another pic of the look I'm leaning towards.
What's your opinion?

Daily Sketches

I thought it might be helpful to compare our artwork, daily sketches and such. Here are a few of mine from this month. Feel free to share some of yours :).

Questions, Comments, Suggestions? Please comment! :)

Sites to Share

 I just wanted to share some links and info I have found helpful over the past few months. Hope you all enjoy these resources.

Character Design: You can find great photo reference under their archives

DeviantArt tuts: Large list of various DeviantArt tutorials

Textures: This is a great resource for textures to use in your artwork


And here's a shout out to Blake: Thanks for sharing these links, hopefully everyone will find them as useful as I have.

Free books

Info For Illustrators

Improve Your Portfolio

So, any ideas ?

So, the blog is pretty basic right now, and I was curious if any of you guys had ideas to vamp it up?

Maybe we can change the name, or the setup? I would love to see more people join up and contribute so we can all get a great network going.

Thanks guys

Jon Foster... #2

Just because I love his work too, I had to add my favorite of his..... so far :P

 

I think I'm partial to this particular piece because I absolutely love the culture and all the subtle symbolization created within the art. Especially the cherry blossoms.

Jon Foster

http://www.jonfoster.com/

I constantly come back to Jon Fosters work for inspiration. He works with both traditional and digital mediums. His colors and ideas get me revved up to work on something even if I only have time to work on a doodle. So it's safe to say it's a bad idea to look through his work if it's close to the time I should be nodding off because I'll just wanna stay up working on something. And slowly of course, I feel his style influencing my work.

All the Pretty Colors

This is one of my favorite digital artists. She's probably what inspired my to work with digital media more

 

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