Wanted to sketch out a full-blown scene this time, as I'm not that great with backgrounds.

Mostly though, I just wanted to color something again.

 

 

I give you...

 

ALIEN!

 

 

I think it looks alright. The rock he's on is a bit blotchy, but I still need to learn how to texture and stuff.

That'll be later though.

I can do simple metallic objects quite well now. I learned the basics back when I used to dabble in pixel art sort of stuff.

Makes me wonder about how much I could take back to pixel art now that I've learned so much in regular drawing. Probably won't bother though. I find this much more amusing.

 

Let's come up with some backstory...

So Earth becomes quite big on the whole space thing. They're out and about in the galaxy, meeting with other civilizations. Many years later, immigration begins, and thus, crossbreeding.

This guy was born of an alien species and human.

Earth is unfortunately obliterated by an unseen force. Probably terrorists. ALIEN terrorists.

 

In any case, this guy was visiting his alien homeworld. Upon returning to Earth, he finds nothing but floating rubble.

So he sets up camp and grimaces at the stars for awhile.

 

I... guess these aliens can breathe.. space?

I don't care. I'm too tired to come up with anything better. Or anything more for that matter.

 

 

Go to bed.

Okay, see you tomorrow, Gau.

Yeah, see you later.

 

 

 

 

That guy's a dick.

 

 

Yeah, I know.

Looks like we've got us another girlie to gawk at. C'mere, you!

 

 

Awp, my nose. Faaaack!

 

 

Well, you know the drill by now.

I drew me up another chick.

She's a scrapper!

 

 

 

 

And thar be the color!

 

Lovely. Note that I got in a few actual shadows this time, rather than just plain ol' shading.

There's a difference you see.

Though I realize the only reason there would be a difference in my case is my skill level.

Eventually everything will flow together much nicer. But for now, she is as is.

 

I pictured her on a pirate ship of some kind. She is outed as a female and must now wrestle the entire crew in order to establish her ability as a fighter and sailor.

Or you know, maybe nobody cared a chick came on board, and she's instead fighting the first mate for the last bottle of alcohol; he cheats and stabs her in the arm with a dirty knife. The doctor, who, due to the length of the voyage, has become the manager of the entire ship so as to prevent any losses before they arrive at their destination, demands he use the alcohol to treat the wound.

Ah, yes. And the first mate's buddies drag him to the hold and force-feed him rat droppings for that one.

 

A day in the life of a bunch of pirates, eh?

Or not. Whatever.

 

So, I'm doing this massive project on GamingSteve. I'm taking many of the prominent member's avatars and redrawing them in this huge sort of group shot.

There's almost 100 people involved. Anyone I missed that wants in gets added as soon as I can.

I'm coming up with all kinds of interactions and stuff between the characters.

 

Here are some examples of what I have in there already --

Sephiroth

A beheaded dragon

Will Wright

A robot

The moon from Majora's Mask

Skull Kid

Slartibartfast

Robot Santa

An alien

 

And many more. And more to be added, even.

 

What does that all have to do with a punk chick? Well...

See, after stopping those painting studies I did, I slowly lost confidence in my ability to color/paint digitally. I hadn't done it in a long time.

During April Fool's day, I temporarily became Hank Hill. But afterward, I decided I wanted a fresh avatar.

So I colored the face of my avatar from the project I've been doing.

 

I didn't like the coloring job I did, but it looked... alright. I guess.

 

I was about to get back to work on sketching for the project, but I decided I wanted an actual painting exercise. To warm myself up for the work I've got ahead of me.

After I do the cleanup and inking on the sketches, I've gotta color them.

So what the hell.

 

 

I wanted to paint. That was all well and good, but I needed a picture.

I'd been drawing a lot of female types lately 'cause I normally suck at them. So I went ahead and drew me up a hottie.

 

 

Okay then. Now I needs me some flat colors, something to base the shading from later.

 

 

 

 

And now comes the hard part.

Actually, I already did it. There is no now. There is only --

 

 

 

I still say it's not that amazing, but it's certainly a hell of a lot better than I did before I did them painting studies.