Thursday, December 18, 2014

Christmas Godzillas Illustration


As I mentioned earlier, I decided to do a Christmas themed illustration this year, and since December 25th is only 1 week away, I present to you Christmas Godzillas!!!


Back story time: A few weeks ago, my cousin Meredith mentioned wanting a sweater with lots of tiny godzillas working together to decorate a Christmas tree. I thought the idea was completely brilliant and, while I'm not ambitious enough to knit a sweater, I decided I could do an illustration. Getting the godzillas to look right took some practice, but once I had that down, everything else came together pretty quickly. I finished coloring it in Photoshop last week and now I finally get to post it! 

This will be my last post for 2014. I'm taking two weeks off for the holidays, but I'll be back again on the 8th of January. Hope that everyone has a wonderful Christmas, New Years, and holiday season in general!


onward and upward,
Bethany



Thursday, December 11, 2014

December '14 Sketchbook


Sketchbook time!! Also, does the red squirrel guy look familiar to anyone? I really like him, but I'm worried I'll discover that I accidentally ripped off someone else's design. :-/  If he is not, in fact, a blatant kidnapping of another character, expect to see him around more often. :-)










onward and upward,
Bethany

Thursday, December 4, 2014

December'14 Skill Building: Body Language


For the month of December, I decided to change up the order of my posts and have the skill building and sketchbook entries come earlier in the month. I'm working on a Christmas themed illustration and I want to give myself as much time as possible to get it done. And then, of course, the last week is of December is Christmas and I'll be taking time off from the blog for that. So yeah, on to skill building.

In these drawings, I wanted to focus just on the body language, not anatomy. Some of them turned out ok; others, not so much. Getting the pose to read as its intended emotion was really hard some times, but having body language that clearly communicates an idea is really important in illustration.





onward and upward,
Bethany