Piratey (work in progress)

"Ay, I'll get me revenge, even if it took me 600 years, ay."

As a kid I used to really dig Monkey Island 1 & 2 and read books such as Treasure Island. There's something special about the genre of pirate fiction, the adventure, the Caribbean atmosphere... Few months ago I also read the Christophe Blain's Isaac the pirate 1-5, a quality pirate comic series.

Concept design (updated)

Science fiction oriented video game character concept design. Preparing portfolio for gaming companies. A drawing done on my A4 sketchbook, scanned. Masked it and planned lighting in grayscale mode.

Edit: added colored version. Looking at it critically, it could be more symmetrical, and the hand position or the pose is not as convincing as it could be but the picture is still a bit progression on my path from mediocre to great.

Bought a roll of packaging paper to practice large scale portrait drawing skills.

Pointillism

A pointillist (or impressiost) style painting completed in an oil color course. Haven't done this style since senior secondary, and this is a lot more restrained piece than more current works... Below is an oil pastel sketch done on A5 paper, it might be actually a bit better than the painting itself.

Times are uncertain and it has been quiet on the commission front. Portfolios were sent to few illustration agencies who were either full-packed or felt that the style of the works were not quite suitable for their customers. Too unusual, rough or dark for mainstream perhaps? The search goes on. There has been thoughts on whether to concentrate more on comics or instead striving for fine art, particularly sculpting.