Really love the new version of ZBrush

Pixologic just came out with Revision 2 of ZBrush 4 the other day and it is better than before. It has some very nice features that help me overcome the issues I was having in the old one such as stretching of geometry.

Here is a new 3d sketch I did, in a few different views. I don't think I would want to have to whip this guy as he looks a little rough.

3D!

Here is a little head I created in ZBrush 4. It's more of a 3d sketch than any kind of finished piece. I'm hoping that my 3d work will help my drawing and that the drawing will help the 3d.  I am going to try to start putting up a mix of sketches that I've done on paper and things I've done in 3d in Zbrush and other programs.

Overdue!

This first is one that I created from a rough sketch I did awhile back. I retraced the sketch and added details and then color in Photoshop.

The next three are sketches I did from photos in a book on gunfighters.

Somewhere else ...

Did this one earlier this week and decided to add color. I'd like to do another of the same place, but with people.

 

Having fun!

New Logo!

I was looking at different artwork of other artists and noticed how this one guy had what I would almost consider a logo- it was his last name in a box- on each of his artworks.  So I sat down and played around with ideas and came up with the following:
 
I'm going to start putting that somewhere on my drawings, most likely at one of the bottom corners, though depending on the picture I may try to be sneaky and work it into the image itself.

Thoughts of the past and some new sketches

I was sitting at the full service station here in Hillsboro on Tuesday, filling up the vehicle I take on my afternoon route. It was some crazy temp over 100° and for some reason I kept thinking about a watermelon patch. This particular patch I drew here doesn't actually exist, but while sitting there, I kept picturing watermelons and thinking of people back home and of the past. It's strange how we appreciate, as adults, people and things which are gone, and which we didn't appreciate as much as kids, while they were still right there. So when I got a chance, I created the following color sketch of the patch in my mind.

The rest of these are selected from the many I've done in the evenings recently, as practice. I tend to draw what comes to mind, and also use reference at times (the insect pictures I've included, for example).

More figure practice

Here are some assorted faces and figures I drew over the last week.