daily heroes continues

male, warrior, elf, arcane power

 female, assassin, melee, dwarf, mechanical

 female, support, range, vampire, earth element (creates quicksand pits via her atlas) 

 male, healer, range, anthro, earth element

 female, mage, range, robot, ice

 female, mage, melee, anthro, nature

 male, support, melee, undead, mechanical  (same roll as here)

 male, healer, range, anthro, skill (reiki)

 female, support, range, dwarf, skill (tracking)

 female, warrior, melee, spirit, wind

if you want to try daily hero yourselves go here to see how to play.

more daily hero-ness

male, support, melee, undead, mechanical:

 Male, Healer, Melee, Anthropomorphic, Nature:

 Female, Assassin, Range, Vampire, Wind:

she's a long distance sniper that uses wind-powered helicopter bombs :)

the power of digi tweaking

the greatest thing about Photoshop is the ability to effortlessly manipulate your image with sharpen\blur, blending modes, color corrections, layer effects etc.
its also one of the worst things since you have so many options you can easily get lost if you dont have a clear idea in your head and a lot of times its more a matter of happy accidents than actual meaning. and being able to make decisive decisions is a must to be a good artist.

yesterday i finished an image i did as a gift for my 40k hits on my DA page. (OCs belong to http://jeshika-haruno.deviantart.com/)

this is how far i got with brush work and some color correction:

and then i pushed it a bit with some compositing magic:

 and this is a re-compositing of the original image i did today. Photoshop magic only - no actual painting...

the thing is, with the awesomeness that is Photoshop i can redo this image in 20 different ways. BUT. i'll have no idea which one is better (ur welcome to give ur input if anyone feels like it).
i still have a long way to go....

disney jedi

i'm once again neglecting the blog. shame on me.

here is a quick one i did for the joegees challenge.

Disney star wars combo!

more daily heroes

more random characters i rolled for the daily hero challenge on DA:

male, assassin, range, human, ice

 female, healer, range, elf, lightning

male, mage, melee, antro, lightning

male, mage, range, robot, water

female, assassin, range, vampire, nature

monster girl 30

Celebrate Monster Girls!

and with this i am done with the challenge.

30 freakin' monster girls in 35 freakin' days. never again!

monster girl 29

A Monster Girl and Her Significant Other

so not feeling like drawing today but i'll be damned if i'm gonna quit so close to the end. so i crapped a quick one.

one more left!

monster girls 28

A Group of Monster Girls Together.

monster girls' day at the beach.

lost patience half way through, too much for one sit.

monster girl 27

A Truly Gruesome Girl.

monster girl 26

26. Favorite Monster Girl Character

had to go to Google for this one.i  had a hard time to decide but in the end i went for maleficent from disney's sleeping beauty. 
man, those old Disney films had such great villains.

kinda in the grey area of monsterness but she totally deserves the title. i wish i could do her more justice:

some of the runners up:

Oblina from real monsters.

Ginormica from monster vs aliens

Yobaba the witch from spirited away

the witch from howl's moving castle

Eiko from final fantasy 9

Sally from nightmare before Christmas

Leila from futurama

Mother from captain N

Ponyo from Ponyo

Ursula from little mermaid

monster girl 25

ok, it seems like these last few items on the monster list are a bit ambiguous...

No. 25 is "Favorite Monster Girl". i don't really have a favorite monster, but.. i like jellyfish... ?

monster girl 24 - multiple limbs

i like this one.

almost over - 6 more to go...

monster girl 23 - yokai

watched cabin in the woods today. pretty good.
if you put enough cliches in a film i guess at some point it'll get original again.

monster girl 22 - feline

an answer pic for the dog girl.

cats have the best expressions :) their whole character is written on their faces.

monster girl 21 - canine

arf.

monster girl 20

satyr.

dynamic-ish pose.
only 10 more to go.

monster girl 19

cyclopes.

monster girl 18 - alien

almost forgot about this. i made a quick one.

monster girl 17

robot.

felt like doing something different. background photo taken from here.

crap, im just now noticing the lighting is off on her lower area... oh well, better luck next time.

monster girl 16

ghost.

over half way there.

monster girl 15

dragon girl

trying to do cleaner lines.

monster girl 14

dullahan

a bad drawing is better than no drawing.

monster girl - day 13

insect.

monster girl day 12

zombie french model. she totally needs a little undead poodle accessory but im tired.

background photo taken from here.

monster girl - day 11

true monster.

i dont know. mainly anger management.

day 10

succubus.

10 down, 20 more to go.

monster girl day 9

demon.

monster girl day 8

octomaid in a bottle.

monster girl 07 - plant

 i dont think i can handle doing one girl-monster per day but i'll do my best.

שנה טובה

הכל עניין של נקודת השקפה. 

שנה טובה לכולם! :)

והנה גירסה ארטיסטית:

monster girl challenge - day 6

spider girl. this time with some added insight:

i've been thinking a lot about choices lately. how an image can change drastically with different color scheme or light sources or line quality. a good artist makes smart and fast and sometimes hard choices to make his idea across as best he can in he shortest time.

a lot of times i have an image in my head but i lack the skill to execute it. the ultimate challenge is trying to find the best ways to get close to that image with the tools that i have. 

first try. i had an image in my head went to my comfort zone in PS but i didnt like how it turned out all:

sometimes when i don't have time or energy to render and i need an image to be powerful i power up the ol' flash and draw the outline with the brush tool. it has an ink quality and flexible line-art that cant be achieved on photoshop. gives an image a certain dramatic feel. here's what i got:

i liked it better but it still needed colors. since this is more of an experimental phase i decided to go for a totally different direction:

i didnt have a clear idea of what i wanted - i just messed around with hue\sat and blending modes until i couldnt tell if something was better or worse then before. i wasn't happy with the end result.

3rd attempt. this time i added a story, which is always a good idea, and kept everything simple and decisive.

 im happy with it :)