Week 17 Makes Like a Tree

...oh come on, I'm doing a landscape. I had to make at least one dumb joke about it. More are completely possible.

This step actually took a while because I did a layer of shadows and highlights and then realized that it looked completely terrible and lazy. Then I re-did it and highlighted/shaded everything separately with specific matching pallets. It looks a lot better.

Week 11 - A Tree and Some Dude

It was gorgeous and warm outside today with a light breeze, so I decided to work and draw out on the apartment balcony today. Since I was out there anyway and felt like drawing on paper, I decided to do a study of one of the trees next to our building. This led me to decided to do various plant and person studies all week, preferably in color.

So here's a twisty tree in Prismacolor markers

And then to keep myself from boredom and because I still had inspiration, I drew a minor character from Attack on Titan whom I love. His name is Mike Zacharius. This little thing took me about 10 minutes in Paint Tool Sai

Tomorrow: Possibly another tree and some playground equipment?

Week 21: Snapshots

I regret to inform you that this entry will not be entirely coherent. There's been a headache plaguing me off and on all day and it is currently in the "on" position.

Yesterday was not a good sketch day. I did, however, take a photo of something I want to try drawing for a Weekly Art. It's the water department building.

I'll take some artistic liberties, but it is pretty neat.

Also, my neighbors down the street have this tree. I could just sit under it for hours if the pollen wouldn't render my blind and unable to breathe for the rest of my life. I'm half tempted to ask if I can some day, even though I don't know them at all.
Also, just about done with the cake. Been layering on the varnish:

Week 7 - Finished

I've had my coffee and am currently freezing, so I'm much more awake than I was when I made the update this morning. Surprisingly, what I did today probably didn't take as long as just merging the images last night. Just some scribbling around to make shadows and highlights, which was rather relaxing.

I'm going to post it on DeviantArt as-is, but if anyone notices a huge detail that I need to fix, feel free to let me know.

Week 7 - Progress 3: Partly Done

First of all, a big thanks for the comments on my last entry! They were very helpful!

At Kessie's suggestion I did add a limb to the tree... but now it's covered by the foreground leaves. Oh well. It was a good thought! And I'll be working on Kenjo's hand a bit more, though I didn't make any progress on him today.

Techcat... wow! Thanks for the over-lay drawing to show me what to fix. Is it odd that I'm really flattered when people take the time to do that? Probably. You'll also noticed that I flipped the background image since, sure enough, it'll work better with Kenjo propped against the tree. I have no idea why I didn't think of that to begin with.

The Photoshop brushes, however, I dare not try. The program crashed again today. But I did manage to find an alternative for the leaves, and I think it worked alright. For the most part, the background is done. I'll add more shading and lighting once Kenjo is in it, and save any other tweaking until then as well.

Thanks again!

Week 7 - Progress 2: A Trying Day

Yes, as far as art goes, it was a trying day. Why? Because Photoshop crashed a good five times before it let me make any actual progress on the background. Also, I need to figure out how to make the willow tree's leaves look more like those and less like mutant vines.

Kenjo, however, was decently cooperative. Mostly I like him, but there's a few things that seem off, which is why he isn't inked yet. I'll sleep on it and see what I come up with by tomorrow.