Another CHoW

Yeah I dont normally do them but since topic was 8-bit Game Character redseign I couldn't pass now could I?

Heres my take on Yama from Digital Devil Story:




















(But honestly it would never have turned out that good if it werent for Vilya's useful crits! Much <3 and many thanks)

Catch up

I've been swamped with things to do, there just havent been that much time for the blog but heres what I've been up to lately, two paintings for school challenge. The giants topic was simply "Angry Giants" and it took me appr. 3h to complete. The Cave painting was "Undeground Elephants" and took me 1.5h or so.

time

so many ideas and things I want to paint, so very little time

That COW btw

I finished it. I'm not overly happy with it and I feel drained. I'll try to put the WIPs together when I find some energy. Heres the piece atleast:

The Golden Yekal inhibited northern China and was worshipped as living gods walking the earth. They had long and slender bodys, short velvetlike fur, strong limbs and horns that kept growing their entire life. It was punishable by death to harm one and numerous altars was built to leave offerings for them. Over time these altars were connected and formed a Great Wall where the Yekals lived a lazy life in luxury. The wall served as a playground for the playful Yekals and there was plenty of food offered at the altars and the houses gave the creatures warm and dry space to sleep and to raise their youngs. It is belived that they became so spoiled that when the majority of the people in northern China was killed in the wars that ravaged the country between 3d and 5th century CE and the offerings stopped they either perished or moved on. The last recorded sighting of one was in december, 582 CE.

School

started today, or well introduction week atleast. First lession is thursday I think. Or next week.

Suppose I should mark this as an important day anyway, it's the start of something new.

ChoW #210 complete

Way too little time, didnt exactly turn out like planned but hey, humans isnt my cup of tea...

To start over, and over...and over

This weeks COW proves to be a very tall order. The topic is The 8:th wonder living in 1 of the 7, and while its a great idea its miles out of my comfort zone. I'm not used to draw either landscape or structure. I came up with a very nice idea that I instantly fell in love with, some ferret/cat/goat-like, golden creature living around the Great Wall of China thats actually built as a playground for them, but I have a very difficult time to get it right.

I have started painting several times now, only to discover its not turning out right and have to start over again from scratch. It's so frustrating. Atleast I have found the strenght to just trash it if it isnt not good enough rather than keep painting on a half decent image simply because I already spent some time on it.

Hopefully I will be able to produce something nice. If I do, I will post everything I made along the way to show the process.

Oh and perhaps I should just take a break, take a long walk to clear my head and then try to finish that ChoW, and return to COW tomorrow.