I've been sketching more hard surface stuff lately, and using it as textures in my narrative work. It's been great practice for the Perspective course I'm taking. #art #sketch #comicart

Playing with black and white ink again! These are abstract compositions I've been experimenting with. Looking for happy accidents that I can iterate with in narrative images. #art #sketch #comicart

These are some exercises for a class I'm taking on Perspective. Axonometric perspectives don't have vanishing points and let you play with fun optical illusions. #art #sketch #perspective #comicart

Pushing myself out of my digital comfort zone with traditional materials and getting comfortable with the idea that you could lose all of your work with the right mistake #art #ink #sketch

I don’t know how to express how exciting this is, but I had so much fun this weekend mixing and matching my sketchbook “trash” into new ideas and compositions. I’ll be doing this from now on!

For the first time in my life I’ve been filling and keeping actual physical sketchbooks. They’ve been piling up and I hadn’t really thought to do anything with them. But I watched a demo this weekend where the teacher took his sketches and turned them into digital collage! #art #sketch #sketchbook

My sketchbook from this last week. Trying to remember to iterate on interesting ideas instead of just drawing something once. #art #sketch #sketchbook #conceptart

Been working on plenty of long stories lately, but I worry all the time that I'll never put any of them together. So I'm taking some of my photo studies from the last few years and coming up with 1-8 page comic ideas for them. #art #comicart #conceptart #writing #comics

I think I've found my new way of quickly exploring ideas: I started these sketches in ink and then brought them into digital to play with forms. #art #comicart #sketch #conceptart

I don't think I'm ever going to be a social media person. But I got some cameras to record my process hoping that will make me think a bit more critically about what I'm making. #art #sketch #conceptart

I’m using watercolors to make quick value studies from animal photos. Learning how to organize a piece in the comp stage. #art #watercolor #painting

Designing a character for a mini-comic and her evil queen. #art #comicart #procreate

Photo study: I think this would have taken half the time if I’d focused on slowing down and thinking each stroke through before making marks. I want to get the mental-muscle-memory of that feeling. #art #painting #portrait #procreate

This started as a gesture sketch that got out of hand. I have no idea what’s going on here other than she might be taking some plants to a market? #art #painting #comicart #conceptart #procreate

Initial studies for a bluebird painting based on photos my friend took. #art #painting #watercolors #birds

I sketched these animals earlier this year and it was the first time gesture and shape language really started to *click* in my brain, and I want to get back to that place. #art #sketch #conceptart #comicart #procreate

I’m trying to look after plants again so I can paint studies for a project. But my apartment is a dim little goblin’s cave so I’ve wired up super shelves to blast photons at them all day. So far only one death. My lifetime record. #art #painting #watercolor #plants

A design sketch sheet for a music video I keep picking up and dropping: I think I’ve finally gotten to a level where I actually enjoy designing discrete elements of a future piece instead of just getting frustrated #art #painting #conceptart #procreate

Hoping to post more art instead of just scrolling. And I’m messing with new design workflows: Each of these helmet sketches started in a different way. Some from cg layouts and others from line art and other kinds of sketching. #conceptart #comicart #painting

Death to Chronos babeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!! #hades2 #procreate #sketch #art

And here's the original rock sculpt render.

Another 3D render paintover. I like how quickly I can set up variations on an idea, and still start to work out the mood in a painting program. #blender3d #clipstudio #art #conceptart

And here's the original sculpt render out of Blender

I'm messing around with a 3D sculpt/paintover workflow to get some rocky backgrounds for my comic book. It feels like cheating, but it's fun taking the noisy render and simplifying the shapes. #art #blender3d #clipstudio #conceptart #sketch

I've covered my office walls in corkboard to put up my sketches for inspiration, and it's funny that some of the drawings that are neighbors have started to imply new stories. #art #digitalart #painting

I'm trying to focus on one piece of anatomy at a time during sketching sessions. And luckily skeletons and muscles are similar between all tetrapods. Here's I'm trying to understand the upper arm of a lion. #anatomy #sketch #art

Doodling this character who works out in deep space. How seriously does she take her job? Does she wear her uniform properly or tie her hair back around heavy machinery? Does she miss home? Another round of sketching would be focused on trying to find visual answers to these questions. #comics

A lot of the art I like is of evenly lit subjects. And I'm only now realizing how almost invisible changes in value can still convey form. This second study is a master copy of a Sargent, and you can see how I've overworked the detail in the lit form and damaged the value structure. #painting #art

This is a work in progress for a location design where the first scene of my comic takes place: An unstable space station. Constructed procedurally by robots whose programming has degraded over the centuries, until they've created a place where no human can survive. #comics #conceptdesign

In first blue study, I chose to ignore the reference and focus on light and shadow, and I got a mood and character I really like. But with this second stiffer study, I tried to match the reference and fell into the trap of trying to fix things in the details rather than the large shapes. #painting