Rear Admiral Isaac Arthur Ramsay-Brown (Digital Painting)

I'm finally able to upload this without ruining the surprise for my friend.

This was created before the new year, however due to the holidays, it took a little while for me to get it printed and framed. Recently I've been wanting to draw people that I know personally, but I always find it awkward to ask, however I couldn't pass up the opportunity of drawing my friend Isaac as he was planning to leave for overseas. I really wanted to really create something distinguished with this piece that resonated with classic bygone portraiture.

After receiving my subject's blessing, I proceeded to gather my reference material, which mainly involved photographs of the subject and an image of Napoleon II which I wanted to tailor my drawing off of. As always, I began with the sketching process to make sure I nailed proportions. After I was happy with the sketch I went onto painting a grey-scale version (black and white) of the portrait - this is a great way to focus on tone (light and shadow) and form. Once that stage was finished, I added colour, textured and finessed the image.

I'm quite happy with the end result of this portrait and consider it one of my personal favourites. Of course, it's even better that it's a gift for someone else. I look forward to doing something like this again in the future. Until next time...

Rear Admiral Isaac Arthur Ramsey-Brown

Initial Sketch.

Grey-scale version (pre-colour).

Reference of main subject (Isaac Brown)

Supporting reference (Napoleon II)

Framed print with Isaac Brown.

Artificial Appreciation (Digital Painting)

A little something I worked on here and there in my personal time over the last couple of nights. I've been having to think about robots lately, but that's another story.

Artificial Appreciation

Initial Sketch.

Self Portrait #02

Second self portrait. Looking for fresh faces to draw. Hopefully get some takers.

Self portrait 2

Speed Painting #07 - Watching

This one took approximately 2.5 hours. I think I should slow down a bit and focus on some areas a bit more.

Watching

Speed Painting #06 - Young Lady

It's been a while since I've been able to sit down and do some drawing (that was non-work related). Considering the time between rounds, I'm happy with how this turned out. I wanted to keep some roughness to the drawing, so I deliberately held back from getting too caught up in details, except for the eyes, nose and mouth. 

The reference image I used was taken by Russian photographer Evgenia Karica. It can be found here - Link.

Young Lady

Lara (Digital Painting)

My second digital fan art. This is ofcourse, Lara Croft from the recent Tomb Raider game. I've always been a fan of Lara Croft and the Tomb Raider games and have fond memories of playing those games when I was growing up. This was also illustrated for the up-and-coming SupaNova Expo that's happening next weekend. I'm quite happy with how this one turned out. I was a little nervous when I started adding dirt and blood, but it was loads of fun and I think it certainly does enhance the image over all!

Lara

Lara (clean)

Lara (shaded / non-coloured)

Initial Sketch.

Spike (Digital Painting)

My first official digital fan art! Spike Spiegel of Cowboy Bebop. This was done in preparation for the Supernova Perth convention that's coming up soon. I'll hopefully have some prints of this one available which will be exciting.

Spike

Initial Sketch.