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Figure Drawing (20.01.12)

katherine89taylor — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 17:05:02 +0000

Here are some more figure drawings, done in Photoshop, grayscale The second one I have looked at reference photos from http://vishstudio.deviantart.com/

WIPS

Figure Drawing

katherine89taylor — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 18:39:22 +0000

This is my first figure drawing done entirely in Photoshop. Photo reference taken from here http://mjranum-stock.deviantart.com/gallery/1854061?offset=96#/dzzqlp
I’m just concentrating on getting the overall shape right, hence why the hands,feet and head are not as defined. I’m really happy with this piece.

WIPS

Alien Prince

katherine89taylor — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 16:04:07 +0000

This is something Ive been working on a for awhile. Its a character concept from I story I’m working on. It went through a lot of changes, reflecting the feedback Ive been getting from my classmates.

here is the original drawing I did. For reference I used a photo of a female face thats why it turned out rather feminine, I tried to correct that in the digital painting…

I scanned the drawing into Photoshop and painted the basic values, This whole painting will be in grayscale.

At first I wanted him to have a crown, since he is a prince and all, but later I dismissed the idea as I thought there will be too many things going on around the head because I will put face markings later on…

Here I got really frustrated with the hair so I tried to think of a design that will cover most of it, and it turned out to look too weird so I dismissed that too and decided to try and spend a lot of time on the hair instead.

The background was another big problem, originally I wanted a spaceship crashed behind him, but I settled with a bamboo forest instead. Here as my lovely classmates pointed out that the perspective is all wrong. I will later correct that.

On the hair I spend a lot of time to try and make it as realist as I can. I created a really dark one and then a really white on and settled in the middle ground.

Final Hair

Now back to the background correction, light source is coming from the left, and the Prince’s iris are naturally white, not because there is another light source lighting his face

Final Painting

Close-up

Male Character Concept WIP

katherine89taylor — Fri, 12 Aug 2011 09:00:42 +0000

Done with reference from http://vishstudio.deviantart.com/

Lady Delirium

katherine89taylor — Sat, 05 Feb 2011 20:21:34 +0000

First concept

WIPs

Final Work
I know there is a ear missing somewhere there XD

Digital Figure Painting

katherine89taylor — Sat, 05 Feb 2011 19:44:00 +0000

Reference for this painting was taken from vishstudio here http://vishstudio.deviantart.com/

Tanya

katherine89taylor — Sat, 05 Feb 2011 19:35:43 +0000

Reposting this painting, since I re-painted it.

Nadejda Re-paint

katherine89taylor — Fri, 04 Feb 2011 21:44:43 +0000

I havent posted anything for ages on here, been very busy but now I’m back on track! Here is a re-paint of one of my characters, she looks a bit too young and innocent here, but that’s the way the cookie crumbles. I think it looks much better than the original, dare I say a lot better. There is always room for improvement, but I’m happy with it the way it is at the moment.

Starting point

WIPs

Final Versions

Anatomy studies

katherine89taylor — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 17:14:30 +0000

Working on form and light
Skull

Female
that was drawn from a Ron Lemon tutorial.

Male

Salvation

katherine89taylor — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 20:54:08 +0000

This model was done with Zbrush’s Zsketch feature to practice posture and concept design.