This category is reserved for artwork that is yet unfinished. Usually for artwork I expect to be working on again soon.
Happy Friday, peoples. Since I finished that chameleon yesterday, and that was all digital, I decided to start a new project on real paper! That’s right, pencils, pens, and an eraser (as you can see). My absolutely favorite game to play right now is Axiom Verge on Playstation 4. This game – and I’ve talked about this on here before – is a retro 8-bit/16-bit inspired side-scrolling adventure game. So, because I love it so gosh darn much, I decided to draw one of the alien characters, Elsenova.
I assumed that I was going to put a couple more hours into this guy today and get it all finished up, but that’s not at all what happened. I put an hour in, then took a break as I had some other things that needed to get done. I went right back at it after that and put another hour or so in, probably closer to two hours. Then Photoshop crashed on me. Which has only happened maybe once before in the past year or two. So I lost maybe 20 minutes of progress since I last saved. Lame!
And so the days just keep stringing together. One after another. Pretty soon I’ll be down to my last 100 days, and it’ll start feeling like the final stretch. Hell, it’s starting to feel a little like that right now! So, here’s a strange shape-shifting frog!
I’m thinking that when I get this chameleon drawing is all finished up, I’ll try to increase the saturation a bit to help keep him bright and colorful. Right now, he’s looking a little washed out in a few places. What do you think? Should he be brighter?
I was really hoping to get this Chameleon’s leg done today, because as it looks right now, it’s hard to tell if I really did much since yesterday! Oh well, I put almost two hours into this today and my arm was actually starting to cramp up a bit. I think tomorrow I’ll try something new and do some relaxing doodles on paper.
Hey look! It’s that reptile again, and he’s still looking quite spiffy. Even though there are a few spots here and there that I’m not overly happy with, I’m already planning on going back, after I finish with the body, and fiddling with a few of the details to get it looking just the way I want him to. That’s the current plan anyways.
It’s funny, after about an hour of working on this webcomic I started to feel that this was going to be one of those projects I get discouraged with and possibly scrap, but an hour after that I fell in love with it. I look at it now and I’m amazed that I thought this wasn’t going to turn out very well. I mean, there’s still more work to do, and a few things I would like to edit, but I’m super satisfied with my progress on this.
