a little colour

Decided to try some digital colours again since I seem to avoid doing them as much as possible. Sketching is good but I should probably "finish" something every now and then! Not that any of these is close to being finished :/

Threw up both the colour and the tones. Personally I like the tonal one better but when I really think about it I don't like either!

And some head sketches just to round things off.

Thanks for looking!

-K

sketch

Just a sketch for today that I like and wanted to share!

Thanks for stopping by!
-Keith

test this *now with sprite animation*

Some pieces that I did for an application to a games studio:

A few months ago I was applying to a studio in Montreal for a designer position and they had me do a test... that took a week. Crazy but I did it and surprisingly it wasn't enough time to complete totally! There were three stages to complete: a GUI design, a character design, and a sprite animation.

It's been long enough I think that I could post some of the art I did for it (I didn't get the job if you are wondering). Some of you may remember the post I had for the Pirate some time ago. She was part of the test and I think the best piece I did for it. I have a bunch of sketches that I did for the character that are in the pile of things to be scanned. So they should appear here some time soon :)

Hope you like and thanks for checking in!
-Keith

questionable colours

While talking to my good friend Dave Truc he gave me grief for not posting anything recently. So I took this to heart and spent the last two lunch breaks coming up with some colours for the Questionable Content fan art I sketched a while back.

There are a few homages in there notably for the Canucks (here's hoping they can make up for that terrible game 3!) and another great webcomic Menage a 3 by Giz (warning NSFW!).

This was done entirely in Flash from roughs to colours and while it was fast and fun to do somehow it annoys me too... why I honestly can't say. I considered adding some filters in Photoshop but liked the look of it. It seemed closer to Jeph Jacques' style even though he uses PS!

Hope you like it!
-Keith

quality advertising

Typically I am the last person to a party but for once I am on top of a "trending" topic! In this case the lovely young lady that is the spokesperson for T-Mobile. Her name is Carly Foulkes and after hearing people raving about her (I don't have cable you see) I looked her up on Google and decided right away to draw a picture of her in her almost as famous dress.

Along the way I decided to challenge myself again to do some digital colours and I think they turned out quite well. I have to give credit to an artist I have admired for a long time who posted a step by step for his approach to digital colours of this style. His name is Xavier Ramonède and you can check out his killer blog here: sushixav.blogspot.com

So here are the drawings! Sketch was done in Flash, clean up in Sketchbook Pro and coloured in Photoshop.

Thanks for checking out the blog and I hope you like the drawings!
-Keith