Kekai Knight series practice

Been inspired by Kekai Kotaki's knight series, so I've been practicing drawing knights and stuff, each of the sketch took about 20-30min to sketch up.

This is a quick color rendition of one of the knights, trying to practice Kekai's painting style and mixing it with my own.












Will be working on the rest of the members later on.

Dorohedoro

 So my friend suggested that I take a look at this manga, so I spent the whole day yesterday reading and finally caught up to manga this morning..haha, its really great. The art style is interesting, quite messy and sketchy, but that gives it a nice look to the style, also its pretty gory, but its kinda funny. I love the subtle humor thats included too.

So I made a fan art of my favorite group from the manga series, this is the En Family. Even though these guys are like the "bad" guys, I really like the setting of their group in the story. 

 So far there is 118 chapters, and I read somewhere that the next volume, guessing its the 19th volume, is going to be the last one...since these are monthly manga, it'll take at least another year for this series to end, kind of sad to hear the news, but this series been going on since 1999, so maybe its a good time?







Sketch done in my Moleskine sketchbook

Celebrate fourth of July 'MURICAAAA

Happy fourth of July 'veryone!!

Been a while to draw something, eversince i sold my cintiq and had to go back using my ancient tablet that i'm suprised that it still works..

Anyhow, recently i've been watching a lot of super hero movies and since today is July 4th I decided gonna watch Captain America. Yup.

While everyone else is going to park and places to enjoy real amazing fire works, i'll be celebrating fire works with my photoshop brushes and fire works in the captain america movie..if there are any.

Woop woop


Time:1.3 hours
Photoshop CS6

low poly model practice part 7

maybe I should stick with drawing...XD

This was my first run for additional details for the shading, but the only thing that made this super difficult (and time consuming) was...

1) my UV map sucks... i cant unwrap models at all...that makes everything really hard..even on a simple model like this..

2) I dont have good tablet (and never got around getting the new cintiq13) so I HAD TO USE THE MOUSE...
wealppp thats allllll for today...

low poly model practice part 6

Tadaaaaaaaa!!!!
First shading...the mapping turned out harder than i expected...also there was TONS of mistake ... so i had to quickly re-do some of the parts of the model...
This is just the first part of the shading, just to see if the colors work out, next step is just adding details onto the shades.
Jeebus..took long enough..XP
One is the hard render..with the sharp blockiness and the other is the soft render where everything is smoothed out.
Blocky one looks like a model used in a old video game XD...super POLYGON.

low poly model practice part 5

POKEMON IS TAKING OVER MY LIFE.....
anyhow, after playing lots of pokemon I needed to give my some time off, so I went back and finished up the model, there are TONS of mistakes with this model and I am not still a newbie at this, so I dont know how to fix said problems.

But now this is how it looks like soft modeled..meaning things smoothed out..hmm i kind of forgot to make it super smooth..will have to check that out another time.
Hmm hopefully I can get the textures to work...gonna have to make the texture map sometimes soon...

low poly model practice part 4

Well i dont know if its considered low poly anymore...this have about 3000tri's.... i know some other peoples low poly models have like 1200ish...@__@ i make too much detail? Still lots to learn...

So today I worked on the hoody, which was a pain, dont know how long it took...but i had a hard time making the back end.

Then afterwards took a little break then started working on the hair.
Hair itself wast that bad...because i cheated...lol because the hoody is covering her head you cant see that she is actually bald...i only gave her hair in the front..orz.

im getting close to finishing! just need to make the hands, then onto texturing!


On another note, why i havent updated for the past few days are ... because i got caught up in playing pokemon... and went to friends farewell party, and watched the movie Epic.