Fantasy DIgital Painting : Elven Sorceror

Today I was late to work. =( I didn't hear the alarm clock. Guess I was too tired. Haven't had enough sleep for the whole week. I guess I need to find a way to balance between sleeping, my work, and my drawing. XD Anyway, I'm so glad It's Friday. Went to have dinner at this great Japanese place called 'Standing Sushi Bar'. The food there was amazing. <3 Yum yum.

Just got a great news that I won an art contest in Roleplayer Guild Forum. =3 It's a nice community of great people that love play-by-post roleplaying. Be sure to take a look. Thanks to this forum, especially to the AOTM contest, it's actually one of the reasons I've been motivated to start drawing again. You can view other contestants' amazing artworks here.

This is the entry I've submitted to the contest.

 

The concept I picked was 'Magic'. The color scheme I chose for this piece is green and purple, contrasting colors. It's one of my attempt to draw something other than anime/manga style, and to practice myself in highlight & shading by limiting the colors I can use.

Actually the full picture looks like this. XD I cropped the piece before submitting to the contest, because the original size wouldn't fit in with the contest's legal image dimension.

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Today I've touched up a few parts in this illustration. Below is a step-by-step snapshots for the illustration progress =D

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Hope you like the piece. The journey will begin again tomorrow! =)

P.S. I also made a forum signature for Baka Kitty today. :)

Baka Kitty (AKA Darren Lee) is now taking up a challenge by self-learning a violin despite his lack of musical background. His dedication and effort is admirable. He's blogging about his practice and progress daily here. Be sure to take a look and it would be invaluable for any feedback you guys can give him to help him improve his skill. Thank you in advance. Wish you all a great day! XD

The Journey begins!

Hi there. My name is Rachta, and art has always been my passion since I was a child.

Although I would like to confess, that it's been almost a year, since the last time that I actually painted or drew anything. I would like to blame it on the new job I got, the stress, but there's no excuse to laziness or de-motivation.

A few days ago, it suddenly hit me, that illustration is my dream. I just want to draw and paint like there's nothing to worry, just draw it from my heart, the same as last time, again.

So that's why I create this blog to keep me drawing. I made a pretty challenging promise to myself, that I would draw at least 1 piece of artwork a day; something I always did last time when I was still in school, but failed to keep up when I started working. I will have to post my artwork in this blog everyday, no matter what.

And I intend to keep the promise.

So let's get started. =)



Yesterday I brought my tablet to office, and used my remaining lunch break trying to paint something.

I first came up with this.

A head of a girl. I continued on the color sketch, and stopped at the end of my lunch break, which is around 20-30 minutes later. The piece looked like this at that time.

And I just finish this piece today. =)

It's not the most refined piece, but I'm pretty satisfied with it. It's fun painting this one.

Finish the whole illustration in around 2-3 hours. Not bad. My speed has improved from last time. =) (which I would have taken all day to finish it)

I've been making snapshots of my whole illustration progress (it's a habit now), so here it is.

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Thank you for reading until the last line. =) Any comment is appreciated!

The journey will continue again tomorrow.