Ginger in a Cafe

Coffee makes me want to try new things. Like drawing gingers.

Underwater Woofers

Not quite happy with this one, but I'm still messing with it.

This is what I think of when I hear soft dubstep.

Tri-Lit

Something I've been working on lately.

I'm really not happy with the dark one at all. My proportions are all off (nose too small, face is too thin in places) and it should be smaller and very slightly more bottom oriented so it offsets the looking up one; I believe I'll have to redo it because it's dang near impossible to erase that white pencil... I'm so used to being able to marquee and move things in Photoshop that I forget to give much thought over placement when doing traditional.

The other ones need some final rendering too, but I'm happier with those.
Used reference photos taken in the different lightings.

Ms. Leslie

This doesn't do my lovely girlfriend justice, but I'm still getting used to colored pencils...

Me Gusta

He's lovin it.

Oh Mushroom Mushroom (no snake)

Tried some straight up painting with the CS5 brushes, I'm getting there. No reference other than a quick look through google images so I could remember what a mushroom looked like exactly.

I also found a nice tip online: once you have the painting more or less how you want it, duplicate it, emboss the new layer one pixel high with maximum amount, desaturate, set to overlay. Makes the strokes look much more realistic.

Freerunner

Something I've been working on as of late.
I've been working with the new brushes in CS5, starting to get the hang of them a little more.
The secret lies in the mixer brush tool; laying down colors with the new brushes feels okay as far as how real it feels, but blending them together with the mixer brush...you can almost smell the oil.
As you can see I'm painting under linework, but once I get a little more comfortable with the brushes hopefully I'll do some stuff with brushes alone.