First post !!!

Sharing some of my recent WIP. Too long never paint, kinda slow >.<

Trying very hard to get back my painting skill after all this while just doing TD work ^^.

Wanted to try out with a diff style of painting from those on cgtalk, so going for a softer look.
And i'm not gonna draw a causasian! :P

Face Practice 04

Part 4 of my continuing face practices, this is the closest Ive ever got to my ref photo, am I actually improving?!

Things learned: Get the face shape and facial landmarks absolutely right first before even starting to detail anything. Previously I didn't pay much attention to it, thinking "Heck Ill fix that when Im rendering the shades". Wtf was I thinking?

Highlights, previously my lips and noses lack strong highlights to sell the idea of a realistic reflective surface. Maybe the super low res pictures has something to do with it but still, a bad oversight.

Eyebrows, erase some parts away and feather the sides to give it a less artificial look. This advice was actually given to me by my mum when she saw me drawing heh.

Erasing outlines in general, I normally draw rough outlines of the cheekbones/noses/lips before I move on to shading. I also usually don't erase them away. Since I'm trying to get it look as realistic as I can, I cannot have strong lines around them.

Lights, be very aware of where my lights are coming from, bounced lights especially. Exaggerate them a bit. Following too closely to the ref results in a less lively look.

Shading, working with the darkest color with a very low opacity works very very well. Also, use a lighter color to describe light, reserve the default background blue for the harshest highlights.

Alot of things learned this time, no coincidence this also took me the longest, around 5-6 hours

Edit: I realized I made another mistake with the eyes, they're suppose to look straight but I've accidentally made them look to the side instead. Whoops.

Scatter

Hmm... Still looks kinda flat... And I still dun really know how to paint the reflective layer of the eye...

Website

Ive taken some time aside to do a simple design for my website, I'm keeping it as simple as possible while still working some of my works into the design. Is it appealing enough? Also, anyone have good hosting to recommend?

Face Practice 03

Another one, again from photo ref. I didn't exaggerate her chest, it -is- this huge. Approx 2 hours.

Things learned: Instead of blocking the shadows and shades with solid brushes, going slower with low opacity brushes seemed to give a nicer shadow transition. Ill will have to do more experiments.

Foamy Latte

This is the September VO for 11 sec club. I did it in October however, since I was busy then but I liked the dialogue enough that I decided to do it anyway. Approx 20 hours.

Grimacing Faces

Yo, all. This is my first post. These are some faces of soccer players, they make good studies for facial expression as there is a lot of drama. I also tried to give a fist of north-star muscled twist to lab doc, lower right, except his sternomastoid neck muscles are not proportionate. Enjoy!

Elven Magi

A quick doodle I did during the boring NIE lectures. I think the weasle thingy looks like shit. The character resembles too much of Cardcaptor but it wasn't intentional. It's a try on floating capes and pose.

Face Practice Part 3

I opted to draw an open mouth expression this time, shes suppose to be laughing but somehow it turned out more like a grimace instead. Note to self: Draw more laughing people. The light and darks have more contrast in this photo ref, I dont think I've really brought that out. In fact i think the shoulder turned out nicer then the rest.

Things learned: That I cant draw opened mouths, and Im bad at extreme expressions like this laugh. Keep in mind about working from dark to lights, I tend get impatient and start shading in the lighter tones before Im ready.

Face Practice part 2

This time I'm trying tonal values instead of scribbling all over the drawing. Again, from photo ref. Time taken is approx 4-6 hours, I left for dinner and a bunch of misc stuff halfway so I cant really be sure. Photoshop this time, same as the post before.

Things learned: Blending with smudge and eraser works pretty damn well. And cleaning up the base drawing more before starting to add tones will help reduce going back and forth trying to erase stray lines. And getting more adept at looking at tonal values on skin,

Face Practice

This is hardly finished, its not very pretty, but I've done what Ive set out to do so this will be the final version. Lets see if I can draw at least a few of them a week. Done with photo ref.

Things learned in this piece: Its easier to draw noses if you imagine them to be blocks. A triangle-ish shape coming down, and two more triangle-lish shapes at the sides. This all sounds abit technical right now but it helps me to see better.

Edit: I just realized this piece actually ties in with this month's theme haha!

Cursed

chio trio

I feel guilty having spent so much on figures recently. Merely 2 days after orc shaman i bought SOTA WoW fig of 3 at 60 bucks. I've always love SOTA's jungle troll priest since it first surface donkey years ago, Tauren was still ok but I tot they will make a great trio with DC's orc shaman. So here it is, the three shamanic race tat made up The Horde!

1 fig about 20 bucks(quite cheap), now i'm left with the undead warlock which i'm selling at 15 bucks. lelong~

http://www.flickr.com/photos/mrbeng/329676589/

Work

My latest toy additions: WoW Orc Shaman and Dementor.(Desktop wallpapers Beowulf's son btw."

Finally started another chapter in a new environment. Nice studio, even nicer corner for us character modellers. Pantry is juz below, we can literally jump down n make kopi. The place is very new, in fact renovation is still underway. Boxes of newly bought equipments stacked on the groundfloor. Think by now I would have told most of the ppl here what we are provided, so dun hao lian further liao. Wahaha! Yes I veri show-off. Cannot?!

Both art directors are aussies, ang mohs are very picky. Its a pain at first but It should be a gd learning experience for me. Afterall, thats what I expect in this co. Learn and improve. Have to get used to the way these ang mohs tok, and have to tok to adapt them too.

Ah, I missed my previous studio.

WIP - Creature's head...

WIP here... Argh...