Back to Basics

I did some quick painting using reference from some sci-fi show, Trek Wars or something. All kidding aside, "Firefly" has some great lighting samples thanks to the show using practical lights in the scene rather than blown out stage lighting.
Spent maybe an hour or so on each of these, I wasn't too focused on likenesses, but they ended up more or less looking like the actors. Why is it when I try to make it look someone it takes me twice as long?

Keeping it loose

A little fan art. Based this one off of an image from Bard's Tale II for the Apple II:

ZBrush Head

Wow, long time no update. About time I started posting again. Been keeping up the practice with Zbrush. Did a little head study.

Desoulate Version 3

Another revisit. So with version 2 I just did a straight paint over of my original piece without adjusting the composition which, sadly, was dry as toast.
This time I decided to bend the composition a little more to make something visually interesting. I think I've gone as far as I want to go with this in the form that it's in; to push it further would require and complete reworking to the point of where it'd be something completely new and I just want to move on.

ArtRage Landscape Study

Finally broke down and gave ArtRage 3 a try. I'm impressed with what you can do for the price although I wish I had more controls over the brush settings and blending. Decided to go with a landscape study and it came out alright, not too bad for a first time having never used the program before. If I had it to do over again I would of based it on something a little more dramatic, I got bored with doing the work about half way thru.

Desoulate Version 2

 This is a reworking/paintover of an old digital painting I did a while back. I've always wanted to do a different version and see what I could do with it. I spent a couple hours over the weekend doing just that.

B&W Sketches

Keeping up the practice by doing various line styles.