Updates!

I still can't believe it, this spirited away fanart got me a DD on Deviantart! Those who don't know, DD means daily deviation, pretty much means best picture of the day( I think) but it sure made me so happy. And messages kept flooding in, which is a good thing, I love it when people comment on my works, or send me some words of encouragement. I really appreciate them.

So, since then, I've got quite a few more new commission requests coming in, and also some new clients, which means more work YAY! I accepted them all and then realize wonder "what have I got myself into?!" at the moment I've got 12 projects to work on, and that means no sleep for me.

This Elf character painting is originally done for an eBook on "How to draw Fantasy Character", 15 of the most common fantasy character included, each will have written tutorials and step by step drawings. However, I do not agree with some terms in their contract, so I didn't sign it, and rejected the job. As much as want to work on them, I simply cannot sign that contract. It pretty much takes away all artist's right and there's even a chance to not get paid at all, or not have your name written as the artist/author. Many more terms in that contract that are so ridiculous, Jaan was saying that he was surprise such contract exist!
 

Anyhow, I still wanted to work on some tutorials for you guys, and free of charge. I want to share them. This painting is not finished, but due to busy schedule I don't think I will be able to finish it anytime soon. So when i get the chance, I will, and will also work on the step by step tutorial.

This is not finished either, same reason due to busy schedule, I can't finish it till in a few month time. It's Pans labyrinth fan art if you're wondering :)

Finally, this, My first painting completed with my new cintiq. Should've posted this up ages ago but I forgot I had a blog..>_<

 

Cheers guys, and have a nice day!

Mother

 A very interesting commission, and because i has so much fun painting her, i added more to the background even though a plain background was requested >_<

Mother ©J Maree Burns - The character is half snake and half woman.Each Mask is one of the Seven Deadly Sins.

Character description from :J Maree Burns's book
The serpent woman rolled her tongue in a series of clicks, the large thick branched tail having to loop over its self as it couldn’t fit inside my lounge room. The ink dripped off her face and fell into building puddles on the floor with soft fat splats, just as tipping bowl after bowl of porridge onto the one spot would sound. Her face was completely covered, but I could tell this beast was a woman by its curved figure, the breasts on its chest concealed behind snake scales.
Her elbows were bent upwards and holding the seven different masks above her head. The masks were made of heavy dark wood but the faces were not human. Lock inhaled, exhaled and then glanced at me, offering out his hand. The serpent flicked its tongue, amused by us.


Cool character isn;t it? I loved it.  However i did something real stupid- I resized it to save for web, and accidentally overwrite the Original large file... and i didnt realize it until I close down photoshop. da fuk right, and all i have now is the small file, so blur when I enlarge it. How can i be so careless, sigh.....

Cafe Sketch

                    Did this 2 min sketch for a client but turned out it wasn't the style she wanted....

WIP stuff

Some of my work in progresses that I didnt have the time to finish....

My Deadly Invitation

Well, got this done last night. I was feeling so frustrated before that I don't have time to work on personal work anymore, and my WiP folder is getting fatter and bigger....but YAY i'm so glad this doesn't have to be put into that dangerous folder and be forgotten, like all the unfortunate ones. ....... back to work >_<

I should've posted this last week but I wasn't really in the mood for any photoshop stuff for few days straight already. Been sick since monday, but felt better yesterday and I met up some local artists in town just to draw and talk about sculpturing. Anyway, this is the tutorial I promised. 

 Also, I'll be open for commission on http://jowiel.deviantart.com/  These are some examples.

Spirited Away

FINISHED!!!! (not quite done with the fur but that'll do.. cbf +.+ ). Progress for this will be posted tomorrow. i'm too tired now its 11.58p.m i wanna sleep!

 

 Im trying to create a soft sunset feel to the painting. Chihiro and haku meeting up in secret away from yubaba's bath house. In the background: Bath house on the left and the clock tower where she came from on the right..... I tried.

Face Study

Painting a 6-year-old's face, cute and chubby.  Two quick studies of Elouise.

And a composition sketch ideas of spirited away art..

Chihiro and Haku's secret meeting <3 chose the bottom one and working on it atm...

Disaster... definite fail... 

But looking on the bright side,at least now i got my own reference for spider webs

Out Side

Few weeks ago we were doing some chalk drawing on the concrete outside in the walk way. The kids got a bucket of chalk set for christmas from aunt Louise. Its fun drawing in the sun for a change....

Elouise's version of Blu and Jewel from RIO.

Ellie showing off her skills!

Vai and his dragon. Wind was strong so it didnt take long before our drawings started smearing... chalk powder everywhere!

 Next day we took a piece of plywood and painted on it with acrylic. We didnt get to finish it, kids got bored and one went back to watch his cartoon while the other, as you can see, with her helmet on , started cycling around....

Princess Mononoke

I always wanted to draw her everytime i watch the movie but somehow i just didn't. so YAY that i finally did lol!
Started out with a rough sketch, and while blocking in colours I thought the wolf is looking really weird. And so I googled "white wolf" and got a photo as reference, changed it and tadaaaaaa finished~

Fixed up a little...

Ringmaster is completed!

So, its done! 
Still hate painting the fire but that will do for now...blahhh