Green Forest

Finishing old sketches I had centuries ago (not really).

This is something like practice so I don't lose

my style.

This was the sketch. It's actually about

a semester or two old, really. And yes,

the sword is actually supposed to be that big.

Then the outlines. I decided to keep

the bird there against my

better judgement.

Added a few accent lines so hat there

is a texture to the things that need it.

The hard part was color surprisingly. I only

wanted varying types of green, yellow-green and blue-green

(this does include the sword), and it couldn't blend in. So it took 

a while to get this exactly like I wanted.

And then I topped it all off with some tonal swipes

with a paint brush tool. For depth reasons.

Mondays Old Guy

Last quarter took up so much time I had nearly zero time for personal projects, 

which was no good.

So hopefully this grumpy title card makes up for it.

I had a sketch at the end of the quarter that I couldn't work on

until this quarter started so I decided to work on it.

Stuck to the basics, outline is first for my style.

I added the color and water from my drawing and noticed

how bland the background was and threw a 

bleak city in the background. I pushed the age

in his features with age lines, too!

Then I added some color to the background and thought "this is good"...

... but barring it off will make it look better! 

Less space means more tension and in this case I'd

say it works better this way.

Then I figure I'd title it and call it a day. The title was

a lot lower, but it blended too much, what with 

all the blue... everywhere. So, enjoy.