Color Practice Blue- Twilek Jedi

Playing in the blue end of the color wheel this time. Pulled out an old drawing I never got around to painting, made a palette from one of Jon Foster's pieces, and went to town. (Thanks to Melissa Findley for that suggestion.)

color practice- Red Armor (for girls!)

This morning I found out that Windows 7 has a built in color calibration utility.

So i spent time with a copy of spectrum, comparing reds, blues, and greens, and running the util to try to make this lappy's monitor more trustworthy. I then spent a couple hours practicing reds:

Not DONE done, but close

Okay, I'm not calling this one done yet. Going to give it the afternoon of leaving it alone then take a fresh look at it later tonight. It's close though.

Drow Vs. Illithid part deux preview

Finnally got the monchrome underpaint of the background basically in.

Drow v. Mind Flayer WIP preview

It Friday and I'm in a show and tell kinda mood.

SOOOOOOOO here's the current monochrome underpainting WIP of my entry for next week's ArtOrder challenge entry.

I'm an Eberron nut, so I decided to go with a Xen'drik drow for my heroine, trying to stop a group of tentacled servants of Xoriat from letting something out into the world. Nothing against traditional underdark Drow, but I find the Eberron variety more visually interesting.

And just to help with what's going on with the figures, here's the drawing of the two lead dancers in this performance:

Have a good weekend everyone :)

Earthquake Dragon

My entry for this week's ArtOrder challenge.