More process on designing my version of pinocchio.

He found a sewing chest and decided to make himself a needle sword and button shield to become a knight.

Here are some photos of his adventures.

Working on two different children book things at the moment. On the one side a re-interpretation of pinocchio for university and on the other side a mini-book with bunnies for my grandmas birthday.

Drawing animals and faces (60s and 90s) to extend my palette of animals and expressions!

EDIT: Also did a thing were I let https://duckduckgo.com/?q=random+color&t=lm&ia=answer give me a random color and then I built a color palette around it. As well as some doodles with the resulting palettes.

late upload as I had a long train ride yesterday.

Drew some interesting buildings I saw passing by the train window.

Gotta do a perspective practice streak soon-ish I think, want to improve there.

colored a sketch of some rainmonsters and doodled a bit

chill entry. watching youtube and filling a sketchbook page - trying to get back to go bed in time ^

a couple of illustrations of places/things in my head & experimenting a bit with styles

Drawing on top of my photos, thinking up little monsters that could live in those tiny worlds

Experimenting with different styles for plants, a study of an acorn and a study of a sparrow

A grumpy monster, wearing an acorn as head, as well as some random sketches to practice making color palettes from scratch, and a study of a cool window out of my inspiration collection

Last one in my color theory practice series. This Youtube Tutorial by Blenderguru is the best I found so far, can really recommend:
Not sure if this really counts as "daily art", but I did some quick thumbs to try out the different color harmonies.

Today I tried out a technique called "color breaks"/ basically creating a set of color thumbnails to choose from

(see http://www.simplearttips.com/tutorials-blog/color-...)

The lighthouse at sunset is a potential scenery for our game :)

Trying out a new shading method from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SnG1X-JAHys

Doing some color theory exercises until the rest of the week, starting with the very basics.

Here are some doodles with analogue color palettes and some notes from a video.

Spend way too much time on this, but I think it payed off in the end :)

Continued developing the style for our game today. Thinking of combining inked outlines & structures (similiar to Kay Nielsen) with watery aquarelle colors. Besides that I worked on some thumbnails for places. Thinking of using a shabby lighthouse as home of the main characters family.

The first doodle is inspired by dead wood/fallen trees and how new plants and animals use it as home and food.
The 2nd doodle is some further experimenting with using white marker as sort of permanent masking fluid.
With the last doodle I just looked a bit at how the colors mixed. Wanted to try a transluscent effect orginally.

Today I did a study of a "sunken ruin" in a nearby forest. It was getting dark, sorry for the photo quality.

I think it collapsed because the river undermined parts of the structure. And then it broke at it's weakest spot (where I think there was some sort of metal plate, acting as a watergate).

Today I did some studies in the forest again. I found a nice pond with the first frog/toad-"eggs" swimming in it's water, right among some young reed plants.

Tweaked the light and composition of and older gamelevel, to prepare it for my portfolio.