Hey September

Things have been real busy-like for me recently, and when things are busy I don't draw much at all.  It's both good and bad.

Had a bit of fun fiddling around with some colour in this one.

These doodles were done in a neat program called Alchemy.

Was doodling an idea I had after watching a short video on pollination http://www.ted.com/talks/louie_schwartzberg_the_hidden_beauty_of_pollination.html (some really neat footage here!)

I'm not a big dragon guy, but the idea was that of dragon's as pollinators of a specific flower.  A co-evolution situation where the flower is a very hardy and dangerous plant, but the scales on the beast allow it to safely move about it.

Hurray for more necks! (Something's off about the left eye area..)
Rediscovered Rick Berry today. http://www.rickberrystudio.com/galleries/gallery_update_1.html
I remember seeing his stuff before, but stumbled across him again today.  I love his style a lot!

Perhaps more later.  Just getting a first attempt at this idea down, a flower where the stamen is like a light bulb filament; a bio-luminescent flower for an imaginary environment without much light.

Some doodling before bed.

Desert Environment

Must have worked on this for a couple hours straight.  Perhaps a rocky, desert type land.  It's quite rough and loose, but most of my stuff is at the moment.

It's somewhat Feng Zhu inspired, if I watch any tutorials these days it's one of his, but I haven't been doing much tutorial watching at all lately.

Here's a link to a demo reel of his, uploaded in 2010: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yt3YZ0qST9I&feature=channel_video_title
Has some boppin' music to go along with it!

And here's a link to the first episode of his tutorials: http://www.youtube.com/user/FZDSCHOOL#p/u/115/1McYZX6KScg
Each tutorial is around 30 minutes long, and they focus on a variety of topics: design, painting, hardware, technique, software...  lots of good information.  Right now there are 39 tutorials.

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I was checking out Craig Mullin's website, pretty cool stuff. http://www.goodbrush.com/
I love looking at concept art, such as his, where the individual strokes look so loose and quick, but the overall image conveys so much information.