Character concept design illustration process step by step continue, here is part 4. Evil dark barbaric warrior type character somewhat. :) This part is another step continued from the previous three posts. To see the previous step goto part 1) rough character concept painting part 2) Warrior armor character design tutorial . part 3) Warrior character design tips and technique This one took me quite sometime 3-4 hours total already because I was on it then have to pause a long while because I was in San Francisco over the weekend for a few days. After I leave the art for a period of time, often, I forgot what I suppose to be doing, then it is like starting over again. Anyway, this is almost final then I am going to call it done the next post. There are many things to touch up and make it look subtle. Hopefully I can get this done before the end of the week because I will be out of town again for a few days. If you are new to the site, there are more video tutorial ...

Character design coloring process .  Warrior Character design tips and technique and step by step art process continue here is part 3. The first previous two post are mainly to capture the idea of the design element of the character, then establishing values (paint light and dark) or light source of the image. In part three process, I am adding a dominant color along with complimentary accent colors and execute more design element to tight the piece together...and possibly some under lighting and some other secondary stuff that will make the character unique but still in the category of what it is. Another important element in character concept design is you have to be able to convey his, her, or its personality and posibly its origin. Remember, you have only one shot to get the first impression out what kind of a character it is because it's a one piece of character concept design. Interesting looks alone do not necessarily make for a good character; its personality is key...

Warrior in armor character design tutorial part 2. Continued from the previous post, part 1, rough character concept painting . Just got some time to continue fleshing out this drawing or painting of this dark barbaric warrior character. I was just design the character on the go though I do have some kind of a theme in mind but not totally flesh out. As I paint I adapt the costume design and armor to what I see fits the mood of the character. In this session, I just get to finish up the design of the helmet mostly and part of the armor. There is still a lot of lighting and painting to be done. Hopefully I will get some more time to work on it again this weekend. For similar tutorials with videos on how to draw and paint portraits tutorials go watch Character Design Face Male Merchant Character , or Drawing Male Face Swordman and Learn how to draw and paint face . Also a little more basic lesson for step by step drawing " Drawing humans head female face how ...

Warrior in armor character design tutorial . Quick sketch or speedpainting for doom and gloom executioner dude. I just finally get some times to sit around the computer on my free time to doodle out something. Lots of you have ask me about how I did character and armor concept in Guild Wars and Guild Wars 2 so in this post and several following post. I am going to try to show you the sketching, drawing and painting process of what I usually do for armors. Well, it is very similar to what I usually do with portraits and figures tutorials except there are more element involve, like materials (metal, cloth, leathers, etc.) that you will have to use values to convey the different between each material. Thanks for all the kind words, comments and support you guys and girls have for idrawgirls.com I am glad this blog and website along with all the drawing and painting video tutorial serve its purpose. Not only you guys benefit from it, but also me. :) I am also hoping to progress...

Emma Frost X-men First Class. Here is a final doodle painting of Emma Frost, just got some free time to work on it and I am going to call it done. :) A bit about the character: Emma Fros t is a fictional character that appears in comic books published by Marvel Comics. The character first appeared in Uncanny X-Men #129 (January 1980). An urbane, mutant telepath with a well-noted dry wit. initially known as the White Queen (complete with revealing white attire for which she is known), Emma  Frost has changed from one of the X-Men's most dangerous foes to one of its most central members. here is a final version of the character design concept To see previous step by step go to: 1) Portrait study process 2) Tutorial Portrait painting digital 3) Painting X-men first class Emma Frost Here are a couple step by step images Here is a final image: More tutorials - Draw and Paint Women Body Tutorial I : Female Manga Fusion I - Draw and Paint Women Body ...

Painting X-men First Class Emma Frost in process step by step. After I did a portrait study from a previous post ( Tutorial Portrait painting digital ) I thought the piece could be further refine as some sort of character design piece. So I am thinking Emma Frost, also known as the White Queen, would be a good fit for the character design. Frost is probably one of my most favorite character of all female character in X-men, not only she's beautiful and have full scale sex appeal but also she's evil in a lot of ways and was one of the X-Men's most dangerous foes. What can I say, I love bad girls. ;) I try to design her to look like somewhat a typical Emma Frost but also with a little spin on her costume by adding a little bit of contemporary fashion design element. Anyway I am hoping to finish it in the a couple more hours. Recently I've been doing a lot of intermediate level painting and it's sometimes hard to follow for beginners. But I have to move ...

Tutorial Portrait painting digital painting step by step. It is finally finished!  This is part of how to paint Susan Storm Invisible woman . Continued from the previous post Portrait study process , I finally have some time to work on the final version of this portrait study. The most challenging part of this one is probably how to manipulate the custom brush and make it work with the image. What I notice during the process is I have to utilize the brush shapes and textures to make it fit within the context of the painting and not over doing it. It is really fun somehow and difficult at the same time using painterly texture brush shape to try to paint skin and still make it looks appealing. And it's more challenge and more fun to play around with edge with certain Photoshop custom brushes. Anyway, I also record the video and it will be released as an expansion three chapter for the feature tutorial Face Constructed II. For those of you who already have it, I will ...

Portrait study process and playing around with Photoshop brushes.  This is part of how to paint Susan Storm from Fantastic Four .   This post is just a doodle of painting portrait using different Photoshop custom brushes to create the texture and mood that reflect those of oil paint. Usually I would emphasis on starting out with BIG shape and strokes and get them all into the right shape or as close to what you want. Then we can begin to go in and refine them and clean up. This one suppose to be just 30 mins to an hour speedpainting study, but I could make it in time so it is unfinished at the moment. I will have to work on it still one more sitting to clean up some area, define more edges, and little dark and light here and there then I think it should be complete. A lot of you are asking me about custom brushes, what I usually emphasis is that really fancy brushes aren't that necessary if you don't know how values works. I would strongly recommend that FIRST you ...