Day of the Dead

Inspiration taken from the Mexican festival Day of the Dead.

Trick or treat~

Skulls

Halloween's coming up!! Let's celebrate it with a Skull theme this week~ Doesn't needa be spooky or halloween-ish. Just Skully~ Let's bring life to the dead or the dead to life (:

Some skulls to start you off~

Bull Skull
Human Skull
Rat Skull
Turtle Skull
Eagle Skull

Oh yeah deadline will be 23rd Oct!

Tom Buchanan

Here is my entry, roughly took 2hours of studies. I actually started this one as an anatomy study, then found it cool... added the clothes.. and then ended up putting colors. I was on cheap 90lbs paper, not really meant for watercolor.

Brief: Character Design

Ok, so I want to try something, with some constraints. Below is a small passage of F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby. Its describe one of the character, Tom Buchanan. Your challenge, if you accept it, is to design this character following the author's vision. The style & render is entirely yours to decide. Pay special attention to character traits, both visual or psychological.

The setting is in a rich suburb of New York, 1922. On the porch of a cheerful red-and-white georgian colonial house with bright vines. The time is a golden warm windy afternoon.

"...Tom Buchanan in riding clothes was standing with his legs apart on the front porch.

He had changed since his New Haven years. Now he was a sturdy straw-haired man of thirty with a rather hard mouth and a supercilious manner. Two shining arrogant eyes had established dominance over his face and gave him the appearance of always leaning aggressively forward. Not even the effeminate swank of his riding clothes could hide the enormous power of that body--he seemed to fill those glistening boots until he strained the top lacing, and you could see a great pack of muscle shifting when his shoulder moved under his thin coat. It was a body capable of enormous leverage--a cruel body.

His speaking voice, a gruff husky tenor, added to the impression of fractiousness he conveyed. There was a touch of paternal contempt in it, even toward people he liked--and there were men at New Haven who had hated his guts.

"Now, don't think my opinion on these matters is final," he seemed to say, "just because I'm stronger and more of a man than you are." We were in the same senior society, and while we were never intimate I always had the impression that he approved of me and wanted me to like him with some harsh, defiant wistfulness of his own.

We talked for a few minutes on the sunny porch."

-F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

Deadline is next friday 14th Oct, 9:00pm.

Cute Sleeping Beauty

Woohoo, Hi all! it sure feel good to be among you again guys(I mean virtually, hehe). So following Will's gorgeous quickie, here is mine. Finally countless hours or drawing naked women finally helped me on this one(and parenthood of course). Sorry Will I couldn't pick up colors from your wheel, my screen was keep getting wet.. huhuhu... So I used Phtalocyanine Green and Quinacridone Red, not really opposite, the red is cooler than the real complimentary of this green, resulting in a slightly purplish grey when mix. Cheers!

Here is my version of it (with Procreate on Ipad):