Still getting the rust off during a life drawing session a few months back.
2-20 min poses from life.
Graphite on wrapping paper (hence the wrinkles!) and just plain old ink on paper

Study / practice

Cool news, one of the titles I worked on at Capcom has finally seen the light of day! Ghosts 'n' Goblins Resurrection hit the shelves/e-store last week. This is a great nostalgia-scratcher. I mostly did some environment stuff on the first stage, like tombstones and some layout stuff.
When I was on it, all the art was painted by hand, so it was a laborious process, but great fun to do. Only worked on this for a short period of time, but it was a fantastic experience. Check out more info here:

https://www.ghostsn-goblins.com/resurrection/us/

Some screen grabs:

Video Review from IGN:

Havent been to life drawing for a while now. Ended up going earlier this month to try and get the rust off! Most of these were done on wrapping paper, or craft paper in conte or marker. All of these were somewhere between 5-20 min poses. 

  

  

  

Some quick tree studies for the artist workout.

Did some thumbnails for the self-portrait challenge on New Master’s Academy. Going to develop that second one.

A few comp and color movie studies from Alien (DoP: Derek Vanlint) . Done in Procreate, so there are process videos, too.

After Repin, is perhaps the best known of the Russian painters, especially abroad. But even in Russia, I mean, they named the preeminent art school after him, so there you go. I don't think much needs to be said about the man, but here is some info in case you didn't know: https://musings-on-art.org/ilya-repin

Day 2) After Arkhipov. Beggars

 Abram Arkhipov is not super well-known I think, but is a fantastic painter. He painted many pictures of peasant life, and a lot of plein air. He didn't tend towards theatrical action in his posing (unlike Repin, for example) electing to depict people's natural disposition.  More about him: https://artchive.ru/abramarkhipov . 

Day 3)  After Kolesnikov

Stepan Kolesnikov is another relatively unknown artist outside Russia, but apparently he was the last Czar's favorite. With good reason, too. His works look like butter to me, in the best possible way, and he painted snow especially beautifully. He worked with a pretty subdued value ranged, and is a great reference for how much can be expressed without going the overly contrast-y route. Such control is something to aspire to.  More on here: http://www.artnet.com/artists/stepan-feodorovich-kolesnikov/

Day 4)  After Vereshchagin. In Jerusalem

This one, after the great Orientalist, Vasily Vereshchagin. If you're familiar with Rodolf Ernst, Carl Haag, or Jean-Léon Gérôme you know the genre. Actually, Verershchagin studied under Gérôme in Paris, so the influence is probably not imaginary. Looking at his work, you can't help but think that he had the whole concept art thing figured out a few hundred years before it was cool. But his work was also often offensive to the militaristicly-minded European powers of the day (I'm including the Russian Empire here) as he often depicted the brutality of war, rather than it's romanticized glory, and his exhibitions were occasionally banned in different countries. But he was nominated for the first Nobel Peace Prize, so there's that!  A great write-up on him here: https://musings-on-art.org/vereshchagin-vasily-vereshchagin

Day 5) After Levitan 

There are a number of famous Russian landscape painters, the likes of Shishkin (known for his forest scenes and the famous bears painting that was all over chocolate bars in the USSR), Aivazovsky (who was second to none when it came to maritime paintings), and of course the great landscape artist Isaak Levitan. He is credited with creating what is called "mood landscape"; I'm not entirely sure what that means, but I suppose it refers to the fact that his work is often loose and a bit melancholy. The melancholy could be explained by an early life spent in poverty and overall poor health, but what can explain that talent and skill?  See more here: https://musings-on-art.org/isaac-levitan

 Day 6) After  Kotov

What a fun week!  These were done digitally of course, but really makes you want to pick up a pencil or some actual paints. Well, I guess thats for the following week. Cheers!