Monday 20 August 2012

Ghostly Courtiers - CHOW

I took part in the latest Character of the Week community activity on Conceptart.org. There was some amazing ideas coming out this time, which makes me both depressed and jealous at how unimaginative I can be, haha!

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This is the handmaiden to the young queen. She was indiscreetly having an affair with the newly married Prince. Due to the bad publicity brought about by these actions, she needed to be assassinated and was never heard of again.

Doing community activities on Conceptart.org is like the best thing ever! It's as if everyone is on the same journey, and we all share our works in progress and give each other help and tips or even just 'fresh-eyed' advice. It's such a good thing to do and you can learn so much from other artists, even by simply following someone else's WIP.

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If you've followed it in the past and felt like maybe you should take part one week, I strongly recommend that you do! It is hard work to complete it before the deadlines, and usually the topics are quite tricky too, but it usually takes you completely out of your comfort zone (which is a good thing) and it's so worth it!

I desperately need to be doing things like this all the time, I've gotten so caught up with work and spent so much of my time commuting that I've hardly had the time or energy to do contests like this and also my own personal artwork. But luckily now I'm working from home so have a lot more free time, yipee. It's a good think cause I seriously need to study study study.

xLouisax

Sunday 5 August 2012

Cornwall - tropical colours

I recently had a family holiday in Cornwall, England. I've been a few times before when I was younger, but never have I been somewhere in Britain where the coastline was so picturesque! Literally aqua blue seas and bright sunny skies, like something out of a travel guide. I didn't take anything work related on holiday with me so I've had to resort to drooling over the billions of photographs I have taken.

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I haven't painted anything in a while, so thought I'd sketch something out to remind myself of my holiday. Hmmm, not bad.... It was nice to experiment with tons of different brushes. It's refreshing to do something like this when the artwork I usually create day to day (with vectors) is a completely different technique. I should really paint a lot more, I'd probably get a lot better at it, lol.

I don't like to call myself a painter because I think it is a bit of an insult to people who actually are painters, so, because I mostly create artwork with Flash and Illustrator I'd call myself a digital illustrator (for now). :)

xLouisax