The good thing about a lightly raining day is the justification of spending extra hours at my favorite coffee shop without feeling guilty about it, despite my aim at moving forward on the F.U. donut series. I often end up drawing something unexpected, and Lindsey is a perfect example. Thank you sitting next to me today.
Progress on this piece. I added more characters within the Alpha Commando, among them Leonard and Freddy’s fathers. I am happy with the effects generated by various layers of lightly washed watercolors to show shadows and light and will continue to use it for the rest of the piece.
This is sort of a homage to all of the war time photos taken of troops waiting before or after a mission. This is a chunk of a bigger illustration, and yes, it is a banana in his hand.
Just toying with the ideas of blowing bubbles
Just slowly making my way up the photos I have taken of Brittany 2 years or 3 years ago. Another shot of her sitting on my window ledge.
I find myself working late into night after coming home from a night out, the buzz just wore off slightly and there is a bit of needing to do something floating in my head, not wanting to dive back into Leonard’s Sonic Fur ball suit (see pervious entry) I went into my model photo archive and picked up a photo I took of brittany almost 3 years ago, not sure why it took this long to do anything with it. It was a lucky accident that I snapped that photo of her in my kitchen window, the lighting, her pose, just fantastic. So here it is, and I just woke up, time to pick up paintings from Grumpy Bert.
Spent most of the afternoon trying to get the reflection right, still need more works.
The iconic drop ships from Aliens and Avatar sort of made this particular task difficult because after pages of sketches, I kept coming up with similar designs to those two famous designs. In the F.U. Donuts universe, World War 2.5 was one GIANT dirty, costly, bloody mess, the rousing speeches and any romantic notions soon were replaced by dirt, smoke, scream, pain and death. This basis for this design come from various black and white photos of UH-1H Huey coming back from a mission during the Vietnam war. You can see people have spent long, scary hours inside these helicopter cabins and I wanted try to use that as an inspirations. Some of the ideas from these sketches will eventually find their ways to the final concept, which I have yet to finish. Just wanted to share some progress steps along the way.
