Slow progress of WIP's

Here are some updated things on the current things to be done. Slow in painting but maybe it's fine as long as getting used to a much refined process is taking place. The thing focused is how to maintain standard processes on the painting stages and developed from it along the way.

Some WIP's for this week and month...

These are the current things that needs to be done, 1 is to be submitted for a fan art entry and the 4 are fantasy card illustrations.

First post for May and some things needed to be done and continued...

Haven't made any updates really for this blog for the last month, it seems that it was forgotten and is almost to decay, haha. No internet connection for the recent and hasn't able to participate and submit pieces for some artists painting groups in facebook but soon the connection will come though it is portable. For the last weeks was able to make some artworks for something and here are some cut pieces of some of it, couldn't post the whole thing since it's not appropriate, here are some of it:

Personal website will be updated soon since the previous code and website layout was refreshed and decided to much simplify the layout of the design. The watermarking design of all artworks was changed into another version for a more simplified portfolio. The site will be up soon but needs more time.

Loads of work from the previous weeks and time...

Haven't done any blog update from the previous days and wasn't able to make any studies and personal artworks. Here is a screenshot of the WIPs that was done but these were finished just recently and there are next things to come. Need to ask permission from the client to actually post the items here soon:

The one at the left side is for a book cover and the 4 next to it are illustrations for a card game. There are other 4 new illustrations soon for the card game but recently cancelled 2 cover illustration since the deadline is tight and the concept more details and description, maybe it couldn't be done within that time since freelancing is only part-time and needs to sleep too, haha!.

Below are some rough concepts that were not approved:

Some character rough samples was made recently:

First post of April, no finished art since there are other things...

Couldn't finish the fan art for Diablo III and there was other activities from the previous weeks. Other works needed to be done and are still on progress, here are some slices:

Among these, only 1 will be colored.

Another Diablo III fan art on the making..

This is another fan art for the Diablo III game that was started a couple of days ago and is far away from half way done. Come to realize that there isn't any artworks done that is a complete fantasy art, maybe gonna start to create them little by little at a time. Here's the screenshot of the current painting:

Rise a Crusader is finally done for the fan art contest!..

Here are some process animation done while painting this artwork from yesterday and today:

And below is the final image with watermark, uploaded this one on deviant without watermark since it was required, see it at http://kenoneworks.deviantart.com/art/Rise-a-Crusader-439834465.

Was kinda doing other things on the previous week...

Didn't do any studies, speed painting and updates for blog since it was a lot of things happened, but will go back to the usual routine now since it was done. From previous week, started a painting for Diablo III Reaper of Souls Fan Art Contest on deviantart.com with a group of team mates. The starting time was limited during the first session but was continued for a couple of hours and was stopped for a couple of days. And now, only 2 days left and the thing is almost done. Kinda happy to see the entries there, another fun stuff, learning and gaining experience from the rest of the guys out there, check them out here.

Here are some sliced images on the painting done for the entry and so far it's almost done and maybe this will be it tomorrow:

First post for March is a compilation of some studies done..

Didn't make some finished artworks from the previous weeks but was doing scraps on color mood and quick paintings, here's a compilation from January's and February's.

And, a quick environment painting, the "Mountain Castle".

Testing out new brushes and new class of painting session study..

Wasn't able to make an entry for deviantart's "Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII" contest because of laziness and thus sleep the remaining hours. It's fine though but on those previous days, continued to explore and study, downloaded brushes and customize some of them and it turned out to be fun. Here's some sort of quick painting with the brushes.

Use the brushes for some environment study focusing on gray scale mood to simplify form and values. Here's session 1 and 2:

Also watched RoboCop movie last week and made a quick fan art, here's some screenshots:

Too lazy to add more hours and here's the final work:

Didn't do much things from previous week...

It's been days and wasn't doing any scraps because there are things processed to get the card. Went to different places to register and wait for ID's to be done and inquire guidelines there and maybe next week the card will be released. This day, did 2 quick stuffs for fun, the topic was good and decided to do it. Also, there's this contest on deviantart, Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII and less than 10 hours away from the deadline. Planned to join but maybe it's a little bit short of time, but will try though.

Here are 2 scraps:

Moon Base

The Flower Thief

Phantom 

Here's a little line drawing for someone too:

Some more studies and didn't do some personal scrap..

There are things for personal portfolio but wasn't able to continue doing them, maybe soon will have them done but for now, here are some studies less or 30 minutes done:

Broken Heart

Broken Heart - 2 

Red Riding Hood Gone Rampage 

Old Barbarian 

Old Barbarian - 2 

The Red Tree

Tried adapting other artist's style and the results were funny, haha!

Rest day and some scraps done for study...

Here are some quick concepts done for the facebook group again and made variations on the steps done and it's becoming effective. Some of it is from yesterday, small images below:

Golden Golem

Master of Sand

The Pirate King's Vessel

Temple Guardian

Pink Hair and Cool Goggles

Pink Hair and Cool Goggles - 2

These things make sessions 9th and 10th having inspired mostly on other artist's work showing their videos on youtube. Would love to do some video recording but it makes the laptop perform slow like late display of the brush when you already make the lines. Looking at other's work, how they make their concepts and looking at their processes can really inspire someone, it's the kind of feeling that you want to grow and become like them.

Aside from those, thought of creating some personal works even if the fan art of "Luffy" is not continued and decided to create a rough concept of a knight riding a horse, the screenshot set below:

After some minutes past, thought of a wizard would be something nice to work with and thus, stop the knight and create a concept of a wizard, the screenshot below:

Will continue this soon, feel like going to sleep now..