Laitma July Portfolio Post
Sorry for so many posts in a row! o:
Anyway, here's my Artslam July Portfolio! This month was dedicated to my story Angel Dust~
It was a bit of a self-indulgent month as I got to draw a lot of my favorite thing, namely, beat-up Ians...
Spent a lot of this month trying to push my perspective a bit... with limited success.
Also worked on poses...
And more experiments with watercolors. (A Cris bust)
Expressions, but I didn't really stick wit this. Whoops.
A scene I STILL NEED TO FIGURE OUT HOW TO DO RIGHT...
And just some more loose perspective work
Attempts to show Ian on a construction crane for a scene from AD.
Ian wrapped up in a blanket, a scene I tried a few times to draw.
An iScribble version that I was rather fond of! I think this is what got me started on wanting to do some value studies/grayscale pieces.
...Because coloring in iScribble was hard as hell. Whoops.
Totally random doodle of someone totally new. Still haven't done anything with him yet.
An iScribble Cris to go with the Ian~
Some more (lame) attempts at perspective/backgrounds...
A more successful page...
And a thumb for a scene from Swan Song~
(Another failed thumb, need to revisit)
Attempts at heads looking down. Reminded me to go back to studying anatomy/looking at references again...
And a picture of prefall!Ian that I'm rather fond of~ <3
Rooftop sketches
And self-indulgent doodles of emo Ians.
Some concept sketches for the apartment layouts that Cris's gang probably uses.
Ian from a scene in Swan Song, losing it.
And some fun headshots of Ian (left) and Cris (right) as kids!
Aaaaaaaand another beat-up ian, just because it's too much fun.
And finally, a bunch of the other miscellaneous things I scratched up this month...
A watercolor dragon for a friend's birthday
And a bunch of life drawing watercolors! Played a lot with colors.
Another watercolor birthday gift for a friend
Some sketchswapping with a friend of mine I went down to visit~
My OC Agrona (from yet another story, Anti)
(Cris and her OC Strife bullying Ian xD)
(Our OCs Sweet (mine) and Pestle (hers))
And an unnamed OC of hers~
And more sketch swappings, this time with Devonition~!
His badass lady Sarati~ <3
And the love of my life Benny~ <3<3<3
A left-handed doodle of Samuel (from Iris)
Aaaaand more random doodlings (an Ian, a random watercolor headshot)
A commission for a dA user of Galerians fanart~
Fanart of Lt. Rei Fukai from Yukikaze! <3<3<3
A scene from Iris, where Asher meets Phelan for the first time.
A very silly sketch of my friend's OC Aeden and a snarky Ian xD
Aaaaand a fanart-friday for Japanshin and SendingAuron of their characters Counter and Zack, respectively! <3
This was a much looser month where I focused more on drawing character interactions and backgrounds, and mostly just produced sketches.
I really liked it though--finally trying to figure out how to illustrate the scenes that I wanted and incorporating perspective and backgrounds was a very refreshing challenge, and I think that I prefer this to doing simple character references/profiles, so I'll be trying to do more of work like this for August. :)
And breaking out the grayscale was a lot of fun, too! Value studies/shading my sketches really got me thinking about lighting and mood, so I'll definitely be trying to do more of those. Overall, a really satisfying month of finally trying to tell stories through my art~!