Elf doodle

Since I didn't have access to my computer during the holidays, I decided to finally give my iphone's drawing app (ArtStudio) a chance. I needed a few tries to get used to it but once I did it was great :) definitely a nice way to keep the sketching flowing. I could doodle while watching movies, which is one of my favorite ways to slack off (and not feeling bad about it) :)

I touched it up in photoshop a little bit. Decided I don't really wanna develop it any further, so here it is.

Color studies

Continuing the idea from my previous post, this time with colors :)

Top two are Grimshaw paintings (I definitely have a thing for this guy's landscapes), bottom two are by T. F. Simon and Kramskoi.

Small value studies

I recently watched first video of Noah Bradley's Art Camp in which he recommended doing some thumbnail value studies... I thought it was a great composition exercise so I did a few myself :) It was a ton of fun so I'll do color studies like these as well!

I'm sorry I can't provide with the names/authors of pieces -- I picked stuff out of my art folder and many of the names are as informative as "01.jpg" :/

Though... I hate it how the frame was plain grey on the computer I drew it on, and it's warm brownish gray on the one I'm using right now... Can't trust anything these days! 

A guard

Took a pencil figure study from way back and decided to put an armory designy spin on it

A rider

Horses and braids and skulls, oh my!

Zombies

Older sketches from ~a month ago :)

Boyfriend playing "Walking dead" game = chill zombie drawin' time.
I mostly approached these as sorta anatomy sketches which makes it super fun

Frog guy - it was a figure study gone completely experimental with filters, effects and whatnot!
Was curious on how to achieve the night vision effect. :)

Two speedpaints

There's a group on facebook called Daily Spitpaint -- every day the group admins post a few random topics and everyone's welcome to join on the art fun as long as their work takes less than 30 minutes to finish. I only hopped on the wagon twiced so far -- but will hopefully join in again someday :)

"Laser beams"

"Cool shades"