Panda-Kitten Lovin'

Lots of work stuff has been happening, the fruits of which I hope to show soon. I'm rather excited to see the final products of my designs for South Seas Enterprises...I'll probably post the design sketch and photos of the finals when I am at liberty to. In the meantime, I was mean to my Panda this weekend, so I drew him a card in hopes that he'll forgive me...--L

That Queen Again...

I think she's done. She was looking entirely too smooth and mooshy, so I used some textured brushes to rough her up a bit. I like that you can imply a lot of things with textured brushes, where they would normally look bad with a regular round brush. I wanted the focus to be on her face, so I think the roughness of her gown works. I like to do portraits like this, but they really have no story...I guess you could come up with a story for her, but really, she's just a portrait. It's a good exercise in painting, but not that great from a vizdev/storytelling point of view. I like her nonetheless :-).

Queen on Progress...

I was so very flattered by the comments I got on my first post of this sketch, particularly by Keath! My current contract has just about wrapped, so in a moment of serenity, I decided to work a little more on this lady. I've learned a lot about rendering and lighting while working on "Polly Pride," and it's coming out in this painting. I haven't really ever had the patience to really work on a digital painting more than, oh, a day or two, but I like her so much that I want to really render out every little bit. This whole sketch is pretty much directly from my head, so I guess it's an exercise in visualization as well. There's not really anything period about her costume...it's a bunch of different styles thrown together, but hey, it looks cool :-). Anyway, here's some progress... --Lauren

Another Evil Queen (WIP)

Here's a work in progress sketchup for some ideas I've had in my head. I promised myself I would get to draw something fun if I did 10 panels for work...I only made it to 8, but that's okay. I didn't intend to take this sketch so far today, but it just sortof happened--it's hard to not knock in just a few values here and there, and maybe work a little on her face...just a little! Eventually this will be a full painting, but for now, it's a scribble :-) --L