A house, some sketches and other doodles

 The title really says it all.  Some practice in my latest style of a cute little house, some sketches of random things to try to get all this rustiness out, and some random doodles for more practice. 

I've had a hard time with this style, trying to recreate the look I want, but the more I play with it, the easier it has seemed to get.

 

New painting style practice

My finished WIP piece as well as some other practice pieces in this style.  I've had a hard time trying to recreate the style of the snowmen piece. :p

Digital painting; monsters and faces

 These are just some random painting/doodle practice on faces. I always get stumped at their hair. >.< But I was pretty pleased with how the faces turned out themselves. These are probably the best ones I've ever done. And just ignore the random sketches and egg things. Just doodled those up for practice and whatnot.

Just something silly from some basic doodles I was practicing with. I've read through several of these this past week and I think they've been messing with me. LoL! I rarely do dark scenes, in theme or color scheme, and I don't think I've ever done any with a flashlight source. The word bubble seems a bit out of place, but I couldn't seem to resist adding it in.

Sketches and more people

 Some quick sketches and color/line/whatever else practice while recuperating from a nasty cold.

The pet here was originally a cat. But it looks more like a dog to me. :/ But I liked the way the girl came out.

Bunches more practice

 This is missing something, I just can't figure out what. :/ Nothing I can think of would fit right to me. But I liked the design. I may revisit this later and rework it a bit. I think it makes a rather cute simple stand alone piece. This little owl character actually popped into my head when I was working on my Misfit characters. I thought maybe he might live among them somehow.

 These were so much fun. They originally started out as musical notes. And they sort of turned into musical note candles? When I gave them a background, they just looked like a trio singing out happy birthday to someone, so I added the wicks and flames. I would love to create more things with these three. They just seem like a fun little group. And I was really pleased with the colors and overall look of this. I planned on naming them possibly Fa, La, and Lala.

 

Just a little more practice with digital painting. Still trying to find something that works for me. Created this little guy for a quick study. The green crown should have been yellow it seems. Or black. Definitely would have suited him better with those colors. Live and learn I guess.

The title (Rabbittted) is actually what I randomly named the file while progressively saving it. It seems to suit the picture quite well though. I pulled this rabbit design off of one of my old sketch pages. Just some more random painting practice.

 This piece is so random. But I kind of like how it turned out. Not sure the idea is quite right though. Or that it even makes sense. O.o Fun to practice with it though. I like the robot's body, though his eyes gave me a bit of trouble. And I have no idea how he could have cracked his forehead. Maybe he has a friend with a short circuit? XD So yeah, just ignore this.

Bunny, fishee, ellie

Pulled this guy off of one of my sketch pages. You can read more details about it on my da page.

I pulled this guy off of an old sketch page, too. Ended up changing his eyes, which seemed to suit him a bit better to me.

I had the urge to try painting like this.

Since my laptop skews colors, I tried to brighten it to make it not so dark and it came out more neon then I'd planned. But I was actually really pleased with this style of coloring. It seemed to work really well for me. It also allowed me to give the piece the illusion of having lines, without actually having them, which I liked. Definitely plan to keep trying this painting style. I changed it up a bit from the original tutorial, but it's more or less the same idea. Just blending and smoothing colors until they look right. With the bold color of this one, it reminds me very much of Lisa Frank, which I have always had a love for. ;D

Painting Practice

I felt like trying out some painting techniques, and since I don't have that many photos of real life items to paint, or was just too lazy to go find/take pictures of them, I just picked one from some of the photos that inspire me. This one on the left by popoks is beautiful. I can't find the direct link, but her gallery is full of amazingly colorful pictures, so be sure to check them out. This one was simple and full of vibrant stuff so I tried my hand at it. Not sure I like the outcome, but it was fun to push myself to try something I don't normally do.

Dancing cat

A couple of pieces where I've been practicing my illustration techniques and layouts. I'm so rusty! I haven't really done anything 'illustrated' in ages. Just stand alone images usually. I'm not happy with the complete outcome of the room so far. But I like the look of the floor and wall. But I think the dancing cat would look better in an other environment. Hopefully I'll get around to creating something more accommodating for her soon. :)

Angry birds and Charlie Brown

I was greatly inspired by this piece while doodling: http://weidel.deviantart.com/art/Be-My-Valentine-Charlie-Brown-349429784. I have to admit, Charlie Brown was never my first go to cartoon as a kid, he was a bit before my time really, but as I've gotten older, I've really enjoyed seeing it more. So while it's not quite Valentine's day yet, I thought it would be fun to share this with you guys early. :)

I wanted to practice more with this latest technique of what looks like digital 'painting', I suppose, so I decided to try drawing some angry birds and pigs. I didn't have reference pics for them all at the time, so they're not all here, but thought I would share the few I did with you guys.

More digital flower paintings

Just some more digital painting practice fun. I think the winter weather is inspiring a sudden dark, magical feel for me. :p

Honey Bears and Flowers

A little picture from one of my previous sketches. Also available on DeviantArt and Society6.

And just a little doodling of digital painted flowers (Note that I use the term flowers very loosely.). :) Happy Wednesday! :D