The (near) Daily Sketchblog of Daniel Armstrong
So, this one goes out to my mother, who always wanted to design costumes.
The Sea Queen Illustration
It is funny, I don’t end up drawing too many people these days. It was good to build up skin tone for someone wearing makeup.
Sea Queen Illustration close-up
Corel Painter ~9 hours
This took a bit longer than I expected, but here is the final render for the male costume. Fun stuff.
Male warrior costume illustration
and some close-ups…
Costume design illustration close-up
Costume design illustration close-up 2
Corel painter 8 hours.
Costume underlay sketch
This is the underlay for an illustration I am doing for my wife’s book on stage design and theater production. I haven’t really done much costume design before, but this has been pretty fun.
Sea Queen costume design
Corel Painter ~1.5 hours (including thumbnails)
Oh, no! It has been far too long since I have drawn a robot!
Just a moment
This is a quick one from my sketchbook.
Cowboy pop-gun
Pencil on paper. 5-6 minutes.
I started laying out some color this morning.
Hummingbird
This is a tiny sketch I did while helping my wife set up for her art opening in Memphis this weekend. I believe it will be the beginning of a much more detailed illustration.
more hummingbird action
Pilot HI-TEC-C pen on paper. 15 minutes.
I felt like drawing a quick hummingbird today. Enjoy
Krista's Hummingbird
Corel Painter 25 minutes
Typically I am not the type to rush right out and buy the latest version of every software license I own. I find that I can wait 2 or more generations on things before it becomes necessary to buy an upgrade. And so, when Painter released Painter 11 a while back, I didn’t give it much thought, but today I finally got around to giving it a try. I have been very happy with Corel Painter 10, but this blew me away! It was so much closer to the control of natural hard media that when I finished this rough sketch I did a double take at the clock. 15 minutes is much closer to what I would spend if this were an actual pencil or charcoal sketch. Color me happy! I can’t wait to try out something more substantial in this program.
Male speed sketch
Corel Painter 11. 15 minutes!
