The Worst of Places - SotD 117

If I had put two more legs on this sucker I would have been entering into nightmare fuel territory. Cutting this one way closer to midnight than I ever intended, but some distractions and tasks seem to keep getting in the way. Have a feeling I have a landscape in me tomorrow, cause I am pretty sick of characters and monsters now.

Hope you enjoy these as much as I enjoy makin' em. At this point though, not sure how close to sketches they are.

Just Lurkin' Around - SotD 116

Painted up a monster. Not entirely sure where this one came from. It strikes me as something that would find it's home in a Resident Evil or Silent Hill game. I mean, it has chains from the ceiling and everything. But I've never really played those games. I'm hoping for a silent hill 2 play soon with a friend, but I think the only horror games I've tried to get through have been Amnesia and F.E.A.R.

Amnesia was a success in that I beat it with a friend and there was much rejoicing and the pumping out of chests.  Not so much a success that it had drilled into my deepest fears and turned me into a easily startled mess. "Storage"will never be a normal word to me again. It will not be a container of any sort. It will be the place that got a very true "I am going to die" throat tearing scream out of me. It is one of the best games I've ever played. But I will NEVER play it again. At least it wasn't as bad as this dude... (Not Work Safe due to really explicit language- and also, spoilers. So don't watch if you are ever going to play it) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=loSzpvq73FY

You'll be thinking, what is wrong with this guy, but... he's just vocalizing exactly what is happening inside your head while you are at the controls. The build-up and mood of it is just... terrifyingly perfect. Everyone should play through it once.

Shamble away Frankenstein.

This is the result of tonight's impromptu stream. Decided to paint something up real quick and frankenstein came to mind first. Took about an hour to finish. Then I wasted another half hour doing all sorts of stuff to it that I ended up undoing. So before I got trapped in a poorly planned, slightly random finishing process for 5 or 6 more hours I called it quits.

Still sort of getting used to the pressure of having people watch me paint. Have to remember not to rush.

Sea Monster is still stuck in an uncomfortable stare. But slightly different.

I made some quick revisions to the sea monster I doodled up last night. I'm a bit more happy with this version. I've been liking square compositions more and more.

You don't watch sea monster. Sea monster watches you.

I'm streaming again. New link, and you can watch me here! 

http://www.ustream.tv/channel/drawing-painting

This was the rather random result of streaming last night for a good 4 hours. I was watching a stream and the broadcaster had to leave, and I ended up broadcasting in her place. For the first hour I struggled with a weak drawing until finally giving up on trying to save it. So, I asked what I should draw/paint and "monster" was thrown out. After the previous effort, I stuck with a relaxing headshot. There's a lot of stuff here, technique-wise, reapplied from the fictional mass effect character I did, but some new stuff too.

My favorite thing being that to get the red tint in the eyes I made a copy of this very same painting, tinted it heavily read, then stretched the picture so it wouldn't be recognizable, then masked it over the black eyes this fellow has. Im quite pleased with this one. Had fun with it, because it was painted with 6-7 other people who were great company, but also because of the result achieved in 3 hours worth of work. 

All Photoshop - 8.5x11