Dangerous Waters

Done a few drawings past few weeks.  Most rough sketches did started painting the wolf rider however that sort fell out with me.  From all that sketch work I came up with

"dangerous waters"

and immediately put it to paint (ArtRage)

Time to push some pixels.

Might vs lighting quick sketch

All on the pen tablet and ArtRage 3 Studio.  Not big on my colors however I like the moment it captures.  I'm going to explore this more.

A painting slump

In a painting slump I guess.  However, been sketching allot; at lunch at work and did few at home that were all digital.  One I may post.. I’m not too hot on the colors however the idea of the sketch and the intensity of the action is great.  I may re-sketch it few more times see if I take it to paint.
As for the wolf rider.. still want to work on it.

Orc Wolf Rider Digital Resketch

I went ahead and redid the head and ended-up sketching over the entire drawing in ArtRage.  I find when I hand draw and scan it loses some clarity.  So this really made the details pop.  Think I'm ready to paint.

Orc Wolf Rider Re-sketch

RARRR!

9/8/10 -  I'm in mid-painting and the ideas on trying out few changes to my techniques.  And not happy with current progress.  Specifically the wolf.  So going to keep the background; however scrapping the orc and wolf layers to start them over.

Orc Wolf Rider

Here is the sketch for my orc wolf rider.  Used a reference image of a running wolf to help with the legs and stride.

This will be my next painting.

8/24/10 - I like to revisit a drawing after a day or so.  It gives me a clean eye on it and I end up making little changes.  In the drawing above I want to change the head placement and neck size.  (brim head down and forward little and give larger neck and possible larger shoulders.  I might go back to the paper or try to do some digital re-sketching.   

Sketching Up a few Ideas

Burned through several, like eight, pages, in my sketch book; also did a sketch on the Wacom.  Out of all the pages, both physical and digital, three sketch ideas have started to stick:

• Orc Wolf Rider: Did a rough sketch late last night and wondered why I never did this before.  I always loved the Orc Wolf Rider and like to tackle this.
• Orc Shaman:  Most Orcs I do are the big tough warrior type.  Thought it be fun to do an old skinny Shaman casting a very powerful spell.
• Orc King: On his thrown; and getting angry about something.  A study in facial expressions.

The first one, Orc wolf rider riding into battle, is the one I want to do next.   I have a clear vision of what I want to do and have the rough sketch to work with.  I will refine and re-sketch more; then start painting.



Few images to inspire and reference:


Love this WoW one, its very inspirational:

This also is great reference:

This is a great reference of a wolf in motion

Going on the Paper

I love my Wacom and ArtRage for painting.   However, I still love me good old pencil and paper for sketching, doodling and getting ideas down.   

So I have about three ideas I like to explore and even though I tell myself "I will learn to draw from scratch on the Wacom" I find myself going back to the sketch pad.

So I’m off to sketch.  I’ll scan and post any completed sketches.