How to Reference!

I've been studying a lot on how to strengthen the pose of figures. S curves, squeeze and stretch and all that jazz. Here are some sketches I've done on just that. Iterating on the reference until I find a pose that's much stronger than the photo. I believe that people should use reference more often but I feel like some don't know how. Usually, it's a problem of staying too true to the reference instead of just using it as basis for something better.

Maybe this will help someone :)

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Wew

It's been a while. I go through phases where I'm updating every day to completely forgetting I even have a blog. Anyway, here's quite a bit of awaited image dump.

wip painting of how much I miss summer and hate winter. Really like how the environment is turning out but hate the girl and her faaace. Major rehaul on that section when finished.

some progress on the gazebo painting, still no where near done.

Axe Girl!

AXE GURL! Trying out all different styles. I've been doing more realistic-ish stuff so I wanted to create something pretty stylized proportion wise. I love combat boots and sexy goth girls :D

And here is a personal project I'm working on. 3 comps of a Japanese-esque environment with the gazebo as the star of the painting. It started from Blizzard's student contest. I really want to take a crack at it although I'm pretty sure I wont make the deadline. I'll still try but regardless of the time, its good practice to go from concept to full 3D. Pretty excited about it. 

^ My favorite and most fleshed out one. Gonna refine this more.

Naga Lady once again

Got feedback from peoples and updated the naga lady. Hooray :D