Owl be Back

Participated in a challenge over on Crimson Daggers. The goal was to take a child of Zeus and make a painting depicting them that included a background and the deity's symbol somewhere in the piece. I chose to do Athena, and was oh so subtle about the fact her symbol's an owl.  Still playing around with trying different workflows, but what I did for the gorgon seems to be working so far.

Gorgon Illustration

Had a lot of fun working on this guy. Figured out a better workflow, and found out some ways to apply filters and layer settings to get this funky color variation going on. Plus, I finally made a character with a background that wasn't sloppily done fast!

Sketchies!

About halfway through with my current sketchbook, here are most of those pages. Biggest focus has been in drawing original content and working from observation, and I've mostly been using the brush pen. Need to learn how to use graphite properly, eh, someday...