Great Artist Resource

I wanted to share this with everyone, I have recently found a great site, Awesome Horse Studios, created by four freelance illustrators. The site have links to livestream video where they provide critiques of work submitted to them and they also have video of various demos. It is a great help to aspiring artists. If you are interested you should definitely check it out. http://www.awesomehorsestudios.com/

Illustraion Friday Grounded

My contribution to this week's theme.

Happy 2012!

 First post of the year! Here are two version of a digital sketch I've been working on.

My New Year's resolution is to draw more and to post more on this blog. ;)

Progress shot

Still working on this digital painting.

I have made a lot of changes from the earlier shot.

Something for October

Something I am working on right now. Just practicing  my digital coloring. Reference was used and I painted with Corel Painter Essential 4. I'll post the finish version when I am done.

Weekly Art Challenges- Digital Art

I tried my best at anatomy, but there are still a lot of mistakes. Inspired by the weekly art challenges #2 (weekly art challenge). It was very interesting drawing with a limited palette. Would love to experiment more with limited palettes.

Digital Drawing

Well August is coming to an end so here's another post before the month is over. I plan to color and add a background to this digital drawing. The dress is based on a dress I saw in Nylon Magazine.

Process of a Charcoal Sketch

A post to show the progression of my sketch of Joseph Gordon-Levitt. I used a picture of him from the August 2010 issue of Details as reference.
Below is a picture of the materials I used to make this sketch. Canson XL series Mix Media 9x12 sketchbook, pencil box to rest sketch book on to prevent distortion, pencil sharpener, .5mm mechanical pencil, compressed charcoal stick (medium hardness), vine charcoal, a charcoal pencil, white eraser, a kneadable eraser, q-tips and tissues for blending.

It first made a rough sketch with my mechanical pencil and I kept refining it until I was satisfied. Then I proceed to shade it with charcoal.

 I like saving the eyes for last because they are the finishing touches and what really makes a portrait.

 More shading and the portrait is almost complete.

Here is the completed sketch.

More fan art

Nana Komatsu and Nana Osaki from Ai Yazawa's Nana, made with Tegaki E.

Fan Art and Handsome Men

Guess what movies I have seen.
If you guess Thor and X-men: First Class, you are correct. I highly recommend them.
The Thor sketch is still a work in progress, reference picture used (source).

Thor-Chris Hemsworth

The drawing of Michael Fassbender is done in charcoal I used a picture of him in the Mar. 4, 2011 issue of Entertainment Weekly as reference.

Michael Fassbender

The pictures were taken with my camera, so the quality is not as good.

Illustration Friday Obsession

Here's my contribution to this week's theme.

First day of summer

Some sketches of clothing designs inspired by Asia.

My manga collection

I love reading manga! Here's a picture of my manga collection, it's missing my 6 volumes of Scott Pilgrim that I lent to a friend.

Kimi ni Todoke Fanart

Made with Tegaki E, a Kimi ni Todoke version of Frog Prince. I imagine Kurumi as the princess who got rejected and the good witch (Sawako) ends up with the frog prince (Kazehaya).

Sketchfu Art Dump

I have not been posting in a while so here is an art dump of all my sketchfu drawings. Sorry for the large image. Photo reference was used.