Flea Acolytes

There is something about a pious bug that makes me smile. A quick sketch done with color pencil on vellum marker paper. Enjoy Turkey day all and I hope you do not find any fleas among your guests. Happy Thanksgiving!

-Meatmonkey

Sundancer

Perty stuff...Yeah!!! Playing with the figure some, stretching and distorting it some trying to find something that is lost in most of my work. I ran out of room on the paper so she lost her feet in my search to find something. I do like the outcome and may consider a traditional painting from it, but we will see.

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Dr. Fly

Expected a smooth talking sexy doctor? Im sure you all know me better than that, this is more of a scientist fly than a doctor but thats minor details. Either way I sketched it trying to pull myself out of the loss file fiasco funk. It came out okay, but I still have to find more time to make more sketches if I want to get better.

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Keeper

Frustration fills me at the moment since it looks like I lost a couple days work on Skeletor. It is disheartening to lose the work, so I have not really worked on much of anything new today. This is an old drawing that decided to throw up along with my anger. Out with the bad air, in with the good...

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Tank

Yeah, I got sidetracked again and now I have another project on the list. Originally it was suppose to be just a perspective study for me to draw some tanks with, but the block shapes quickly started becoming detailed. Its far from done, but thats what I worked on today, and will probably come back to it after Skeletor.

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Block: Hexed

Old acrylic painting on a block of wood which was done rather quickly if I remember. Hopefully some day I will have more time to do more acrylic painting. But for now its sketching and portfolio related work.

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Costume Stance 2

Still primarily working on Skeletor, but I don't want to post a bunch of sequential work in progress pictures of it without mixing some other stuff in between them. So here is another costume stance image which I plan of working on. I might do one more female stance picture to have a slight variety between the poses. Probably should paint them before I worry about that though.
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Scan: Funboy

A maniac with a joy for body augmentation and a taste for danger. Despite all his flaws he knows how to have a good time. I am considering doing more punk like concepts which I might eventually model out. I think I just want to do a character all inked up with a lot of accessories.
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Skeletor: WIP 1

A work in progress of the Skeletor model I am doing and hoping to get the modeling portion done by early next week. At this stage I have done the some of the basic figure sculpting and blocked in very simple shapes for the lower parts of his armor. I still need to model the upper armor pieces and work on the entire thing.
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Garden Witch

For the most part I am going to call this one done. It did not come out as well as I liked, but they never do. I might come back later and work on it some, but for now here it is and I am off to the next project on the list.
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Bone

Old piece I did for a digital draw off for a forums contest a while back. We were lumped in groups and given topics week to week. This one was Jeff Smiths, "Bone" which I never read before the contest but found it to be a quite humorous children's book series. I did not even make it past the first round despite most of the others in my round really sucked.

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Costume Stance

This is a sketch done with the intent to paint over it and eventually do a bunch of costume designs on top of that. I am seriously lacking in many things in drawing and one of them is costume design. Lets hope for the best.

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Concept: Garden Witch

Here is a piece in the very early stages of work. Right now its nothing more than a quick pencil sketch scanned in and it needs some fixing in some parts. I try not to worry about it so much and fix things as I go on pieces I plan of digitally painting. This one I have a great vision in my mind for, but lets see if it comes out anything like that.

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Lion

Another short painting study of a lion, this one taking about 3 hours. I have found lions to be difficult to paint, and will need to do many more studies before I feel I will get them right. I feel these painting studies are the best thing right now for me, so I will keep working on them.

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Monkey One

More digital painting practice, a short study that was about 2 hours of painting in total. I may work on this some more but I am trying to get out of the habit of rendering so much. I want to move towards a more expressive look, with maybe some area's tightened up.
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