Earthbender

Here is a bit of fanart for Avatar: The Last Airbender. I decided to explore what I may look like as an earthbender. This little guy was done in Painter. While I am happy with how it's turned out, there are certainly a few areas that I'll probably end up going back and touching up eventually. My downfall was that I was too excited about finally getting it semi-finished.

Trolling

Someone decided to give me the subject of "troll" and told me to run with the image. This would be the result. It is completely graphite. There's not too much fluff to it. Granted, I must have been watching LotR at the time since he looks a good deal like the one's from there. But, he did make for a fun afternoon.

Caterpie

As I was looking at a friend of mine's sketches, I came across a series he was going through where he would draw different Pokemon in a pose with a Pokeball. I so enjoyed this concept, and the fact that it embraced a piece of my past, that I created my own image to challenge him. I decided on Caterpie for my subject. This was one of my earlier trials after I first got Painter. The linework was done on paper, scanned in, and then colored all in painter.

Generational Gap

For the first time ever, the Marios meet! As a part of an exercise, I was given the term "Nintendo" and had to create an image from that. In the end I settle on Nintendo's classic mascot, or better put, the two images the world has come to known. As always, I settled on colored pencil in order to get the shading that I was looking for.

Sonic & Tails

For my final run with the Sonic images, I decided to use the classic image of Tails and Sonic. I finally got to the point with my shadows where I got the darkness that I wanted. It certainly helps the image to stand out more than my other pieces.

Checkmate

I jumped back to the use of Army Men for my subject matter. This time I went with charcoal/ graphite for my medium. This is probably one of my favorite pieces to date. I was able to get the darks I needed. My favorite part is probably the highlights on the cans. I was worried about pulling off a metallic look and I was happy with the result I got. My biggest complaint would be the shadow from the front can on the Army Men. It ended up making them blend into the environment more than I would have liked. Overall, though, I approve of this piece.

Donatello

I finally made it back to my Ninja Turtles. This time around I was able to work on Donatello. I remember being excited about this picture. I enjoyed the pose I thought of. Sadly, I still was hesitant of ruining the picture by going too dark. Looking back at it, I can see where making my shadows next to black would have helped the lightning bolt. Overall, though, I was happy with my end result.