It's been a while since I posted a blog entry, but if you've been keeping up with my Instagram, and frequenting the latest section you will have seen that I've been posting other stuff. If you haven't been then I better not catch you slippin' again. Here is what I've been up too
After doing the cake piece I decided to continue experimenting with simple shape and color and try to get better. It taught me a lot about color and form and I used that in this next one.
"The Hollow Apple"
I was pretty happy with Simona and her worm nemesis here. Definitely some improvement, in the composition and better defined anatomy, and the interaction between the two gave me the idea to do a little comic or something.
"How much you got?"
666 - pronounced 'Triple six- is a character in my "Doom City" Comics and story. Many of the characters in that series go by earned nicknames.
666 and a low level summon.
This so far is the most successful of what I was trying to accomplish with this series of color and form experiments. I can tell I really learned a lot from working on the previous ones and I use that to make something has a lot of great feeling moments, from the composition, the anatomy and the color. The idea for the color and clothing came to me actually while I was working on the piece below, and it struck me so hard that I skipped to working on this instead.. I also picked up some speed although I at first did have some trouble figuring out an expression for her. It came together once I created the expression on her face and worked her playful position into place. I decided not to go with text in this one and just let it stand on its own, but if you are wondering they are about to order a pizza and only have about ' tree fiddy' between them.
"The Strawberry Slasher"
Uma does make great strawberry pie, I promise.
Uma "The Strawberry Slasher" here was by far the most challenging. I started and worked on this one several times and even stopped working on it to do the one above "666". The color palette, I started with felt really limiting and I ended up starting over a few times. Finally after completing the last one I started this one over using what I had learned and broadening my color palette and it really took off. I also decided that since I had gotten better at the figure portion, that I would add more to the 'set'. I feel pretty successful at capturing the crazy expression and gory fruit murder .
Anyway thats what I did all june and part of july haha. More will be on the way, but I think this particular series is done for now.
-Auchtsvell