Orc Sketch 1.20.15

I decided to practice putting some polish on this orc dame. This piece took me about 4.5 hours all told. The main thing I learned from this piece is that I really suck at designing tattoos.

Time lapse process vid here:

New 2015 Orc Sketch

Ah well, it's been a while, but I finally made it back with this lovely orc dude. One of the first images I've made while learning how to use Manga Studio 5. More work will be posted at the end of this week.

View the short process here:

First Orc Twitch Paint - Speed x 900%

This is a much shorter version of my first Twitch stream, and is easier to watch and listen to.  Edited down with Lightworks, which is a great free movie editor. Thanks for watching!

Orc Stream

So, so pretty...

Orc done on my very first Twitch.tv stream today...

New Orc Sketches

Tuesday's Orc

Better Than Yesterday's

Monday's Orc

I had a bit of client work today so I wasn't able to draw much more than this. Same drill, Photoshop CS3, etc.

Friday's Orc

"Don't call me 'jolly'..."

Here's a full-size piece that I just concentrated on the face area for practice. The drawing was done in SP6 and colors in PS3 as usual. Perhaps some day when my pace is a little faster than a snail, I'll paint up the whole dude.

For this piece, I experimented with a stripped down pack of brushes from fantastic-artist-man Mister Dan LuVisi. I thank him for sharing his brushes and techniques with the rest of us.

Thursday's Orc

Handsome Devil

Pencils done in SP6 yesterday, finished with PS3.

Tuesday's Orc

Wants to go to Tosche Station to pick up some power converters...

Sketched the pencil in SP6, colors done in PS3. Made a bit of progress with the color blending and the hair.

Edit: Fixed for Star Wars nerds like myself.

Monday's Orc

Hungry

I just picked up Sketchbook Pro 6 for dirt cheap on Amazon, so I've been fiddlin' around with it a bit. All the pencils and "ink" were done in SP6 and then imported to Photoshop where I vomited some really fast color onto it.

The drawing tools are much better suited to doing inked comic style work, and the program itself is much lighter on its feet than Photoshop. From what I've seen, it's possible to do very sophisticated finished work with it, but I haven't delved into the color tools much.

Friday's Orc

Just tried George Bluth's Cornballer for the first time...

Only had about an hour to practice today so I couldn't do much more detail on this dude. Have a great weekend!

Thursday's Orc

"Er, ma'am...may I take your longsword?"

Process Shot

Wednesday's Orc

More bemused than savage...

Tuesday's Orc

"Hey, I told you guys; NO surprise parties!"

Monday's Orc

Nice pauldrons...

I used one brush to fill in solid colors and one brush for the rest of any kind of blending, etc. I've found some terrific brushes online, but while I'm trying to get better with technique I'm trying to limit what I use. I started with a pretty loose sketch with a pencil-style brush and went from there.

Thanks to Sycra for the great paper texture, and to Richard Robinson at Live Painting Lessons for the incredible gamut masking tool. It helped this noob limit and hone my palette for this sketch.

Happy 4/20!

Eight months away, new and improved rig...Photoshop runs like a dream now.

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