day 31: enough with the Zeus already!

The previous Zeus was more of a jolly looking type.  So I tried going in the direction of a Zeus that was fat but could also whip ass.  Went with a more traditional toga.  Thought it was more fitting because I drew Zeus as a heavy enforcer type.  I also shortened his hair so the crown wouldn’t be too overshadowed.  I think I explored with enough ideas to mix em up and come up with a Zeus that fits in the same world as my Poseidon design.

On a sidenote, the new year’s challenge was over over a month ago, but I finally finished my 31 drawings for it.  I probably would have finished it on time, but I became more critical of my drawings and just didn’t want to post anything just for the sake of posting.  I just wanted to post the best drawings I could have done at that given time.  That’s the only thing you can honestly ask of yourself as an artist.  Hopefully within the next few months, I’ll look at these drawings and find nothing but mistakes as it shows that I’ve gotten better with my drawing by that time.

Anyways, the whole point of the drawing challenge was to get myself to draw more human characters since I was drawing more vinyl toy characters towards the end of 2009.  Now that the weight of challenge is off my shoulders, I can move to experimenting with styles and focus on diversifying my portfolio without trying to force the issue.  So be on the lookout for more artistic growth.  Cheers.

day 30: zeus again?

round 3 with the Zeus design.  Approached it at another angle.  What if Zeus just let himself go?  Wouldn’t you if you basically had all the power in the world?  Designing a heavyset character is something new for me.  So it was fun and also a challenge at the same time.  Decided to go all in with the toga to see how I could make it different from what’s already been done.  Hopefully it’s a step in the right direction.

day 29: zeus part deuce

Another Zeus drawing.  This time I tried adding toga elements while still giving him pants.   Kinda like it, but not totally satisfied.  Gonna try more versions.

day 28: zeus? not so much

Tried to draw a version of Zeus in the style I drew Poseidon and it didn’t turn out so well.  It would make a cool barbarian/warrior character, but it doesn’t necessarily scream out god of thunder.  Back to the drawing board.

hey, it looks cartoony!!!

So I’ve been playing around with Flash in order to take some of my sketches to completion. I learned how to digitally ink in Flash while I was interning at Titmouse Inc. And for about a day, I also learned some coloring tricks also. I figured since I was doing all that stuff in Flash for 3 months, I owed it to myself to use that knowledge for my own art.

Besides, I haven’t done any renders that were in the 2d style. So why not give it a shot? I think I was able to make it not look so like it was done in Flash was due to the fact my colors are based off of the Copic color palette. I found a custom swatch of it for Photoshop and just painstakingly created a flash version of it for my own use.

Anyways, I think it’s a process I’m going to utilize more because it’s fairly quick and to-the-point for me. So let me know what you guys think. Cheers!