Arnaud Anwar Thibault

Arnaud of the Proud People and his sparrow Enu.

Creole Mystic

I was supposed to go to class today, but my bathroom flooded. So since I was already home I decided to work on some character designs. This is from my French-African universe. He is a Middle-class Creole mystic and his familiar is the sparrow on his shoulder. I did it in col-erase pencil. Hopefully I can paint it soon.

Tyus the Divine

This is a concept based on Hindu mythology. A Child-King born with the soul of an evil warlord. This painting was inspired by Indra Sharma, the greatest Hindu painter of all time.

Mike

This is a friend from my Heads and Hands one class.

T.H.

My weekend project. A little loose, but I am satisfied. I hope she likes it.

Belamos

This was my spiring break project. I decided to re-deign one of my characters using only a silhouette. I did the original thumbs in brushpen, imported them in, and then worked the whole thing up from black and white. I don't think i am done yet, but I am running out of things to paint on this one.

Young Mother Earth

A study I did today using painter and CS3.

Asian Jesus.....Woman

Why not?????......... A quick study I did today using painter.

Officer Rudeaux Final

Officer Rudeaux

A design I finished this morning. Sort of a Sci-Fi, French-African Police Woman from the future. I'm in the process of doing a series of character designs based on French and African history, sort of a new France, if you will.

These are some character concepts I've been working on lately. Trying to take more time and learn how to render in a more painterly style. Also really trying to get down faces. My heads and hands class is really gonna help me this semester.

This is another character concept for the same children's story as my last post. This is my idea of a wandering African ninja-type warrior woman. I kept it pretty rough this time and just played around.

Steed

A charachter I started a couple of days ago. My first piece all on photoshop, with no pencil drawing to begin with. I am actually truly happy with how it came out. Children's book illustration seems to be pretty fun so far.

The Apple

A study I did tonight from a photo I took in figure drawing last year. Experimenting with some new brushes and blenders.

Billy Goat's Gruff

A concept I pencilled, scanned and painted in about two hours.

This is a project that I started on friday. I had someone take lot of pictures of me in my khaki detective trench so I could draw and paint the folds. So there will be al lot of future posts of me in a trenchcoat. I did try to make it look like someone else, but it still kinda looks like me. Anyway I had fun with using texture from the imported textures to the texture brushes I used in the shadows. Damn trenchcoats are hard to paint!!

Ghost Girl 2.0 Final (maybe)

I spent a lot of time on this one, and I don't think it's gonna get any scarier. I have been in the abyss long enough, it's time to come up for air. I'm sure I will do some minor corrections from time to time, but for now, I am done!

Ghost Girl 2.0 Value Studies

Today I put some value on this piece, and flipped the composition. Hopefully this made it more interesiting. Trying to work in B&W and get the values right before adding color. This is only my third time trying this technique so here goes.

Ghost Girl 2.0

I did concept painting of a ghost this past summer that I was quite proud of. However I never really got the concept fleshed out as well as I wanted to. So this is my second go. I pencilled this up last night and will begin painting shortly. Hopefully I'll be done in a few days..... Hopefully.

The Fuzz

I have never done a cartoon piece before so this is my first one. Distorting the proportions felt very empowering. Not having to follow rules allows one to become more creative. I will be doing lots more of these soon!