Weekly sketch painting

For my illustrated painting of one of my past weekly sketches I chose the barbarian, and for my median I used photoshop. Overall I had a blast doing this piece, though the one  thing I really had wished I had done differently was to have been able to integrate my face into the painting. But unfortunately ran out of time to complete my idea.

Book cover final

After taking the painting into photoshop and adding the title here is the completed book cover. The type was kept simple to keep the focus on the illustration but still have a very solid feel to it and worked well with the rest of the piece.

Book cover painting

I then went into the painting phase. From here you can see the finished painting before it was taken into photoshop. Being only my fifth painting I was very happy with how it turned out and can see the improvements especially as far as the figure goes.

Book cover comp

From the sketch I went into photoshop and built a photo reference to work from. I found the photo reference  to be extremely helpful in brining my painting to a higher level.

Book cover sketch

For my book cover I had decided to do Robinson Crusoe. After going through all my thumb nails I decided on this because I was very happy with the composition of the piece.

Week 10 Sketch

For my final week sketch I decided to go with a old school barbarian. I had and absolute blast making this guy and was able op practice my pencil sensitivity a lot in the piece and I do see the improvement on my part. one downside to the piece was I don't think I developed enough on the weapons and the face of the character. If I had would have done something different it would have been to change the weapons and face and maybe give him more of dynamic pose, but overall am pleased with my progress to this point.

Week 9 sketch

For my opposites illustration  I have to say I had a lot of fun with it. This project is one a the past couple pieces that I've tried to push the articulation with my pencil pressure  and in many ways I believe i achieved this. On the flip side I believe I could have done more contrast with and and if I had done something different it would have been that and doing something more with the background. overall this piece was good practice for me and a had fun making it so it was definitely worth the time and effort.