Personal Work: Walter White from "Breaking Bad" - Digital Painting

As most people know, I'm a big fan of "Breaking Bad" and so I drew a pen drawing of Walter White. Once I finished the pen drawing, that I did on paper first, I decided to take it into photshop and work on it from there, instead of using pencils, pens etc. or just leaving it as it was. Using some of the techniques that I learned from last year's sessions with Jordan, I reached a final result that I'm very pleased with. It matches the original's colours quite well, and I found the right colours myself instead of using the necessary tool on Photoshop to get the correct colour/shade. 

Digital Painting

Pen drawing in Photoshop

Original pen drawing

Photoshop Session: 02/03/2015 (Still Life)

In today's session with Jordan we stepped way from working with photoshop, and instead drew still life in our sketchbooks. We were asked to do a series of thumbnails, but in different ways, drawing with our opposite hand for example. We then had to do 3x final drawings, I believe.

While doing these drawings I was happy with how they were going, but now I don't think they look too good, or not as good as I remember. I didn't spend too much time on each thumbnail and they aren't the most photogenic images in the world, but this session has taught me about further ways as to how to do thumbnails. 

I only managed to do 2 final drawings, the first being done in the same way as one of the alternative aspects drawings, and the other being in charcoal, an alternative medium. I do like the first one as it is nice and smooth. It has a clean composition that works well with the ratio of the page/box that it was drawn in. Unfortunately, the charcoal drawing has smudged somewhat and doesn't look as good before hand. However, from memory, I was happy with the tones that I managed to create and it had a unique effect.

Continuous Cities 1 - Leonia

These are my first 9 thumbnails for Leonia, that I did in my sketch book. I struggled to come up with ideas behind how the city could look like. I was only able to come up with dumps that were made to look like cities. I do like the actual drawings, but I just found it difficult to envisage the city, even though the "Continuous Cities - 1" passage is quite long.

Also, I know this isn't the best image quality. I'll try to improve it at a later date.

Cities and Despire 3 - Despina - 17-24

As I quite liked Despina, I thought I'd do a few more thumbnails, but this time I did the quickly with a pen in my sketch book. I quite like the actual drawings because they show my quick style and they don't have to be exact or in much detail. However, I think some of these look similar to the previous thumbnails. I think I need to focus on more on the details of the anthology rather than just creating an image of the city and then altering each thumbnail slightly.

So far, out of the cities that I've done, Despina is the one I'm considering taking further. I'll make my final decision once I've done more of the cities.

Also, I know this isn't the best image quality. I'll try to improve it at a later date.