Happy Halloween

Happy Halloween! Something a little bit different today. This is the jack o'lantern I carved this year. My cat, Elvis, was kind enough to pose for it. Pearl took this picture of it on our windowsill, and she also took the original picture it's based on. Isn't she a talented photographer?

New Sketches

I’m really excited, I think I’m closing in on the right visual style for one of my personal projects. This character is a girl detective who solves mysteries in a world of  werewolves and dragons, and this is the closest I’ve ever been to being happy with her design. Getting the main character to strike the right visual chord is one of the most important things with a project like this. I’ve been rolling this ball forward on and off for the last few months, and I feel like now I’m so close I can taste it.

My Antlers

The second in my series on color and digital painting techniques. I could have sat with this one forever, maybe, adding here, subtracting there. As a perfectionist with OCD tendencies, that would have been well within my capacity. But I'm not sure it would have made a difference, really. Sometimes it's better to get it out there and take what you've learned on to the next task.