Goblin In A Barrel WIP

I took some time today to refresh and better my skills in Adobe Illustrator. I came up with this quick sketch and have been working on this slowly for the day. This is the progress I've made so far, but there's more to do. I'm slow in Illustrator as a program, but I plan to increase my speed with small projects like this moving forward.

Digital Painting WIP

I guess it's a no brainer that I should probably add flames to the Phoenix to bring out its nature more. I've completed much of the detail work I thought to do with the color of its feathers. Comments and critiques are welcome.

Digital Painting WIP

For reasons involving the commission, I needed to change the pose of the painting. I decided to further my changes by adding more definition to the feathers which also led me to slightly change the color scheme so that I could create the details I want later. This is a base layout of the colors. I'll begin detail work tomorrow and hopefully have this finished before the week is over.

Digital Painting WIP

Adding some feather details. I hope the color scheme is beginning to give off some idea of what this is now. But rather than have the bird made of all fire, I wanted to go with a flaming color scheme with the feathers first, then possibly add flames later. We'll see on that. I'm also thinking of adding an extension to the tail feathers that matches the head piece.

Digital Painting WIP

Adding base colors. Tomorrow I'll start adding some details to the flaming feathers, beak, some shadows, and some highlights.

Digital Painting WIP

I decided I didn't like the line work of the piece I posted yesterday and changed it to my second design.

Digital Painting WIP

Beginning commissioned linework for a digital art piece. All done in Photoshop.