I think it's done?

WIP - commisioned character piece

A painting I've been asked to paint as a birthday present for someone. I know he doesn't read this blog so I'm 95% certain I can post it here without him becoming aware of it. It's supposed to be a painting of his WoW toon, a blood elf Paladin, with the face painted to be a bit closer to his girlfriends.

Little update.

The Thirteenth Member, illustration for issue thirteen of the Skavenblight Gazette. Composition ummm...borrowed...from Leonardo DaVinci. Fun fact - from creating the file to submitting it in to Matthew to be placed on the cover was a total of thirteen days. I may have purposely taken that long, although a big part of me wanted to push it to the line and take a few extra days on it. This is the first full illustration I've completed since buying the new PC and Photoshop, and the first picture to have started and completed with the new PC actually sitting at a desk. Originally I planned to have some animation to it, for the cover, but that can wait for another day.
I've got a few work in progress shots I plan on compiling into an animated .gif instead, so people can be all like wow, it fades between things!

Recently built a new computer and purchased a full retail copy of Photoshop CS5. These are the first two quick images I painted with them...after sorting out compatability issues between my Wacom drivers and Photoshop CS5. The new brush engine seems to produce more organic results, even without using the new 3d brushes. I'm not sold on those yet either,  but I've never been a traditional painter anyway.

Space Marine update 23/9/2011

Worked a bit more on the Space Wolf elements of the space marine today. Not sold on the face, want a kind of viking look but it turns out I'm not that great at painting blonde hair. Red could work though, and I feel like it'd fit in with the colour theme a bit more.

The Forest

And so it's gotten to the point where I don't think it'd be wise to work on it any more. I'm just noodling whenever I touch it now, which I could do for hours and hours more but would ultimately just be wasted effort. I like what I've ended up with, and I've learned things during the painting process (especially since I completed quite a few other pieces and scribbles while working on this). I'm thinking of painting a few more environment pieces and having them printed to see if people would pay money for them.