Some of what I've been working on as of late.  Three very different moments from Earthling:  The introduction of the villain, the middle of the third act, and a scene from the very end (The woman on the right of the third is the girl in the second, all grown up).

Jules is followed

Here is a greyscale painting from my Earthling project...  Jules being followed by a curious alien girl.

Now I just need to move on to color.

And the main character of my project.  Jules (after Jules Verne)

Space man

...a quick warm up I did yesterday...

The Jungle

Working out the look of the jungle/forest village where much of my thesis takes place.

More to come

All grown up

My characters for my thesis are all pretty near done in terms of design, color, etc.... I updated the painting of the girl, adjusting the colors and shadows, and while working on production paintings I realized I needed to design whet she looked like old.  So here it is.

And here is her father, the leader of her tribe...  Their cloths are based on the Himba people in northern Namibia, and Eskimo (hence the boots and pants)

Red Sneakers

I was trying out some pencil brushes in photoshop, and took it a bit farther than I had intentionally planned.  I wanted to draw a little kid... this is what came out.

                    

More to come...

Space Redux

Way back in 2008 I made a drawing... I liked it at the time, and spent a bit of time in photoshop coloring it (mostly just flat colors)

Fast forward to 2013 and as a warm up to another digital painting I decided to add some shadows and highlights to that same drawing.  I wouldn't have been able to get the image anywhere near this if i had spent a week working on it back then... Progress!

Here is the original

The Shaman

Here is the development for the villain of my thesis, The Shaman.  His design is partially based on a cuttle fish and a cockroach.  In the story his people live inside a volcano, and are brought into contact with Jules (the monkey) and the forest tribe because they find his ship crashed near their city.

Mother

I imagine her name (or at least nickname) is Maddie.  Her design had to go through the most development to get it to where I was happy with it.  I'd say I need to add a little texture to the whole family before it is truly done, but for now...  also the full line up of the whole family.