Market Volatility

I decided I should create an illustration outside of the realm of fantasy and science fiction, hence comes this illustration. I was always amused by the imagery conjured by market terminology for trends. 

I was also attempting to add some form of spot illustration example to my portfolio, aka no background, which is definitely not the most comfortable territory for me.

Created in Photoshop CS5: 12 hours from sketch to finish.

Reciprocity

At the moment I am sick and cannot think of anything to say to go with this, I will edit this in a few days with some form of explanation.  Sorry in the meantime.

Light Touch (complete illustration)

I am not entirely sure this won't get some more time for tweaks, but I am pleased with it right now.  It took about 25 hours for this one.  I definitely learned a good deal about how I want to work images going forward from this one.

Light Touch (line art)

I decided to make a line drawing, which will later be fleshed out into an illustration.  I usually skip the fine tuning step that making finished line art tends to be.  I am using this drawing as a test of concept for another image I would like to create down the line.  It took about 8 hours from the start of the sketch until I called this "finished".  I have a really hard time saying a line drawing is a finished product...I am relatively sure that makes me a minority. 

In other news I like patterns O_O. 

Lion's Last Roar

Finally finished this illustration...in theory.  I keep thinking I missed something.  Oh well.  At any rate this one took a bit over 50 hours.  I spent a lot of time early on waffling on the colors for the orc (his armor).

Sigmar's Blessing

This image is part of a set I will be sending off to Games Workshop to see if I can get some work.  I needed a portfolio piece showing how my images evolve to finish and finally got around to doing the necessary iterative saves.  I also tracked the time it took me to finish this- 42 hours give or take a margin of error (I would occasionally sit down at my computer convinced I was going to relax and ended up working instead without really noticing).  So yea...I am not the fastest illustrator out there, but I hope it can be said I at least craft a well rendered image.  

Ambush On The Merchant Road

I feel like I should be accompanying these images with some sort of text, perhaps I will get around to that eventually.

Deterioration

Nothing, Go Away

The Traveller

In The Future This Is How We Hunt Yaks

Arcane Rebuke

Wired

Inspection

Catching A Ride

Tea Total Dwarf

Muncha Lucha

Bubble Piper

Rest Stop

The Glad Scientist

 

Spring Repose

 

Notorious Chihuahua

 

Techno Lady

Knight of the Round Hairdo

Glowy Corp