Friendship is Magic

I'm going to call this one done!  Had a long day at work today, but thankfully had some time to finish the painting up.

Didn't really learn any new tricks with this painting, but I'm getting back into using layer types.  In the past, i've tried to steer away from using layer types, and just painting in a single layer.  I thought it'd be a good way to practice my color control.  It has been pretty good for that, but I've been losing a lot of texture and depth in my final pieces.  There's also the option of creating texture with brushes, but when rendering the texture kind of just disappears.

That's all for tonight.  Remember.  Friendship is Magic!

2/21/2012 WIP

  That last experiment with the soft edge brushes wasn't working out so well, so I repainted from scratch.  Soft edge brush only was definitely a mistake.  also, working from my darkest value out to my lightest value was screwing with me.  Must remember to block out the shapes of the shadows and the shapes of the lighter forms and then work from there.

Also, must remember to keep colors under control.  The colors on this one is much more to my liking.

2/20/2012 WIP

Hello everyone!  I hope everyone enjoyed the weekend!  Fortunately, I had Monday off too, because of president's day, giving me time to do some fan art.  Neither of these are by any means done, but I wanted to start documenting my progress by posting unfinished/ in progress art.

The My Little Pony piece is starting to get out of hand for me.  The colors are becoming hard to keep under control, since the characters are so wildly colored, it's hard to try to pick out the right colors on the first go.  I have a few ideas to pull them back together.  I'm also trying to paint only using soft edge brushes.  This seems to be giving me an overall soft piece, but I'm trying to figure out how to get some depth, and layering while keeping it soft. 

Barely even got started on my Third Strike fan art.  I always seem to gravitate towards oddball characters.  I thought Oro and Q were the coolest designs in third strike, so i thought I'd do some fan art for the old pooper.  It's too bad that Oro has about 0 mass appeal.  It'd be cool to see him in one of the newer games.  Anyway!  I'll be posting more WIPs of this one soon!