Digital painting studies done last year...

Was inspired by artists who did still life studies and digital painting anatomy stuffs which are important things needed in order to grow and become better as an artist.

T-shirt design and illustration practices done last year...

Was interested to study Adobe Illustrator and learn the basic usage on some of its tools. It was also a good study, trying technical methods and step by step processes in implementing a design. T-shirt design was the kind of thing being studied and has created some sort of algorithm towards completing one, starting from illustrations down to color separation.

Here are the illustrated designs made.

Also created t-shirt template colors from a downloaded t-shirt templates from the net.

Concept illustrations and artworks from last year...

Found another interesting thing aside from programming and web design during work in a new company. Becoming a children's book illustrator from August 2011 while working as a part time web designer was really a tiring day to day routine. And thus, decided to stop the part time one in January 2012 thinking to focus on becoming an illustrator. The first finished artwork was done after that and next everything follows and the learning process and growth will never stop...

Here are the concept art done last year, hope to do more this 2013, it's been decided.

The first post, finally!

Hi everyone! Have started blogging this month of April and would post all the things needed to be shared here, including studies, practices, snippets and many more. By the way, here's the first post, recently, joined a contest in deviantart. The contest was about Tomb Raider, and the participants needed a concept that would depict and describe Lara Croft. It was a fun competition, for a thousand of entries by talented artists around the world, only 25 were selected for the selection of 3 finalists. Didn't even made at the 25, but it's okay, the most important thing was the experience and the best effort was done.

Here are the processes done for the entry.

It was fun working on this one and was motivated by the prize and to tell the truth, the competition with other strong artists itself has encourage to do more. It's more interesting when competitors are a lot stronger, haha. Here is the final result of the processes done for the entry.

In this concept, Lara enters the forest where she would start her struggles and battles along the way as she explores her journey. The composition was focused on her but maybe the background is quite non relevant, but it's fine though...