Sketchbook: BeanyCoffee

BeanyCoffee

Hey everyone! I'm just starting my sketchbook thread by posting some of my recent work. I'm going to do my best to update this daily so I can stay on track with practice. My main focus is character illustration and webcomics, but I'm also working on character and environment concepts, and I might even have some 3D work posted from time to time!

Stevincent

Really like the LionRam creature in the last image, Kudos!

BeanyCoffee

Thanks, glad to hear it!

cgartland

I really like the the last one, you should do more painterly stuff

axxic3

Love the propaganda poster, post more comics!

BeanyCoffee

@cgartland
Thanks! I will definitely do more polished paintings like that last one! They just take me a long time to finish so I don't have many of them yet, haha.

@axxix3 Thank you, and you will most certainly see some comic work from me on here!

BeanyCoffee

Painting from today: fan art of Royce from Transistor! I adore that game and Royce is such an interesting character. This was suppose to be quick but I got caught up in it for 3 hours.

BeanyCoffee

I'm always bad at keeping up with forum posting. ._. but here's a few things from recently.

Character commission I'm currently working on:


Commission for a youtube channel thumbnail:


King Logan Fable III fan art:


Sketch of a friend's WoW character:


I feel like I'm struggling to keep a consistent quality in my work. I have good days where I actually seem like I know what I'm doing, then really really bad days where all the years of practice up and leave me. I'm hoping that it's a sign of an improvement breakthrough on the horizon, I could use one about now.

BeanyCoffee

Wow I really am bad at posting on here. I'll add a sketch for a new alchemist type character I did the other day:

BeanyCoffee

This is my most recent finished illustration, done towards the beginning of this month. I wanted to make the mood eerie but still use a range of colors. Also creepy face tree was fun to paint.

BeanyCoffee

Environment concept practice

BeanyCoffee

It's been a long time, I have trouble remembering to keep up with this site. I'll post one of my most recent pieces to try to get the ball rolling again.

BeanyCoffee

I know it's a bad artist habit, but I don't paint from reference enough. This was a small study I did though, referencing an up close photo of lizard scales.

Tetranome

Your work - especially your most recent posts - are great. The level of polish on that smoke creature is awesome.

Elithenia

Really like the lizard scales and the smoke creature!
The eye of the lizard though....

BeanyCoffee

@Tetranome Thank you! I've been trying to get better at making more polished paintings so that's really great to hear.  :]

@Elithenia Thanks! I tried out a couple different texture brushes I had and it helped add most of the detail to the iris.

BeanyCoffee

Trying to get better at setting aside time for art studies. Last night I did a material study on ice, with a little bit of snow on top.

BeanyCoffee

A couple of studies from this week.

BeanyCoffee

Need to do studies more often, but this was a wood material I painted a little while ago.

BeanyCoffee

Trying to get better with more dynamic poses, I have trouble making them fluid and not awkward, haha. Going to be going through an anatomy course to hopefully help with that.

BeanyCoffee

Doodle of some kind of ghoul monster. I have no idea what the lower body would look like. Maybe weirdly muscular thighs, heh.

BeanyCoffee

Decided to use the sketch to do some experimenting with lighting and colors.

BeanyCoffee

A 2D paint over of an old 3D model I had sitting about.


Here is the original model render

BeanyCoffee

Working on a concept for a fantasy race. Essentially, big nautical wolf people

BeanyCoffee

More progress on the concept

BeanyCoffee

Almost done I think, hoping to finish it tonight

BeanyCoffee

Whoops I never finished the final piece. I liked doing the snow texture the most

BeanyCoffee

Been a little while, but here is a fantasy weapon concept I finished tonight. Going to be working on a series of these for some characters.

BeanyCoffee

I've been practicing the Live2D Cubism program and learning how to animate with it. The third one is my most recent attempt, after finally realizing there was a curve editor...

BeanyCoffee

Trying to work on rendering with different edge types, something I didn't really even know about till recently. Might be a while before I can fully understand what that means haha

BeanyCoffee

Calling this done, not sure if this is the result I wanted? but still think it's an improvement