Snailhag so far 2: a little color

no idea what i'm doing

Snail hag so far

this is the pose i'm going with. i really dig the way the hands came out. no idea how i'll handle the color.

A little more evil...

Instead of drawing in more costume, I decided up the evil factor just by painting the face with a more wicked expression.  These little guys have big cute eyes, and so I just reduced them a bit and that seemed to do the trick.  

I love snow / drawing days.  

I'm also thinking of the next challenge, but I'll wait a few more days to post it.

Swamp hag

I wanted to go with creepy evil. So a mutant snail witch covered in her "babies" is what i came up with. Imagine if Cloris Leachmen and a gastropod got it on. Yup, try and sleep now.

Lost Tribe of the Golden Lion Monkeys

Although most primates are somewhat curious about their environments, these little guys are numbered at about 1500, 500 of which are in captivity.  So whatever their evolutionary plan was, it didn't work out too well for them.  Are they the most timid, harmless animal as the challenge called for, hmm,  I dunno.  They're cute, little and bright orange.  So I went for Evil Which Doctor.  Not finished by any means, just sorta sketching out loud.  This challenge was actually kind of hard because every time I came across a harmless animal, I couldn't see fitting them into an evil character.  For example, I almost went for Tarsier. But with their giant globe eyes, they already seem alien and starwarsish. I wouldn't have to do anything to them.

You'll poke your eye out, kid!

and done.  I really like the way this came out.  I'm pleased,  and i'm gonna continue using PS.   PS handles layers much better as well, with Painter, I really couldn't get anymore than 4-5 layers without experiencing major drag. (and weird effects would take place when you flattened it, depending on each layers mode).

Now to start up that animal challenge.  I think I may go with either Red Panda or Echidna (a really cool little animal, like a porcupine, but shyer and has a long snout)

HAPPY HOLIDAYS From ARTGASM!!!

Shhh....He's coming to town...

started painting....IN Photoshop.  It's far from done, but I'm digging PS.  This is the first time I've actually sat down and played around with the brushes in an actual painting.  It's very fast, and smooth.  In painter, I've found that you really need to 'work' the medium.  It can get frustrating when you really want to just have at it.   I'm going to keep going in PS, work down to the details, maybe throw on some color tones, then do the snow, wind and some added brush strokes in painter.

Yes Virginia, there is a Santa Viking.

Here's my sketch.

From the bowels of the pit eternal: SANTA!