Godzilla WIP, line art for watercolour piece

 

So after having a chat last night with Collette over on FB about how to take her Godzilla piece she is doing after watching the new version I was inspired to do my own, and after spending most of the day looking at different references, and making trips to pray at the porcelain alter, I've come up with this. And before anyone states that it's just a line art and not as detailed as my normal work, I plan to use this as a watercolour piece, since I seam to be doing more and more work in markers, so I thought it would be nice to go old school and work in watercolours' for a change. As always any tips and advice on how I could improve this are welcome.

 



All told I've spent about seven and a half hours on this and most of that was waiting for the watercolour paints to dry, and before any body starts a flame war with me over the colour of Godzilla, I prefer the 80's cartoon version of him and that is the reason I have done him in green, if you don't like that fact then you are free to I won't stop you, it is after-all a free galaxy.



New Work

So ok this is something that I asked for help on the other day for the shading on the leggings over on facebook, think I pulled it off alright, but any advice would be welcomed as I'm working on my portfolio and redoing some old stuff. Ok so the scanned version of this has lost some of the detail in the shading in the hair, leggings, fence and her top.

 

The original concept for this was a small sketch I did what seems like decades ago when I was in college, after a night-school English GCSE class I was taking to improve my grades, the idea was a play on the theme of Hamlet plus since it was around Halloween I throw in some mystical elements.

USS Macross NX-74916

Following the Dominion War, the federation decided to drastically re-think their policy of exploration. As a result several members of the ASDB begin looking at creating a new class of starship designed more for defence on the frontier and to reinforce the Bajorian Sector in case the Dominion decided ignore the peace treaty, this ship would be more along the lines of the Defiant Class starship that had proven do versatile during the war.

This class was also designated to act as a command and control ship for the new Valkyrie-class and Thunderbolt Veri-tech type fighter, developed on the USS Voyager http://robotech1984.deviantart.com/art/Thunder-flash-Mk3-136575400 as well as a full range of shuttles and other support ships, in both fleet and individual missions.

Copyright I don't own either Star Trek, The Next Generation, Deep Space Nine, Voyager, Robotech or Macross. This is based off the SDF 1 from Macross designed by Kazutaka Miyatake equipped with two ARMD carriers, the background is a piece by is by John Eaves for the Star Trek ships of the line calendar for the enterprise-e shuttle bay, http://johneaves.wordpress.com/2011/05/05/the-enterprise-e-shuttle-bay-from-the-sotl-calendar/planetv-scape-2/

This was created after watching wayyy to much Robotech/ Macross and Deep Space Nine.

Something New for the New Year

Happy New Year to all that read this. So what Have I been up to recently well, I've been working on writing up the first five chapters of a new story titled 'The Gate and The Angel' which is a crossover story between the worlds of Robotech/ Macross in the universe of Battlefortress Archangel and the Stargate SG1 and later the Atlantis.

 

Also I've been working on getting my software back online on my new laptop that I got for Christmas, the problem is I'm having to convert back to PC from Mac, not that there is much of a difference in the two systems now days, and building up my traditional  skills and designing some images to  increase my portfolio.

 

Well that's it for now I'll leave my followers with a image that I've done recently, A Robotech/ Macross inspired take on the USAF Deadalus from Stargate universe.

 

(Deadlus Class Mk2)

 

 

The design of it is based on a number of sources mostly Robotech/ Macross, Stargate, Command and Conquers GDI Kodiak, Gundam 00 with a hint of Space Battleship Yamamoto/ Starbalzers.

Bookmark

Just a little something I did on the back of an old piece of publicity from work, a while ago that I've been using as a book mark.

Thoughts, opinions and commissions taken for them, £5 plus p&p to any address in the UK, over seas will cost more.

Something New

So I'm working on something new at the moment based on the instructional guide of Steve Beaumont's how to draw Fantasy Art: Create Amazing Fantasy Characters.

After working on the first exercise for a few days I have decided to create an image that is a mix of sci-fi with fantasy art. So I hope you enjoy this piece of work that I am doing, this is the first WIP of the project.

The first image is a simple pencil line art.

The second image is a slightly more detailed line art of the image.

New Home, New Starts

 

Ok so to begin with, sorry that I've not updated her that often with January being my last post, but when you have to use the bus to get internet access, and some idiot takes offence to your knee just touching the back of his seat when the bus stops taking it out your stuff was the main reason, but I have not been idle as i have taken the time to go back to basics and have been doing work old school.

All my recent work can be seen over in my deviant art account, so feel free to cheek it out, and let me know what you think. Thank-you.

As well as the mentioned nut-case on the bus, I have also had to move home again, but that is a long story and will not bore you with it.