Underwater Wallpaper

Well I finally finished the underwater wallpaper gift for my friend David. This is also probably going to be a large image heavy post so I can show you all the progress pictures and what was put in, taken out, and how it built itself up over time. I know a lot of people find that interesting, at least I do so I hope you all enjoy it!

Oh and the last one is the finished piece. :) Also if you haven't seen the first post about this wallpaper the link to the progress picture before these is located here.

WIP Wallpaper

What I have here is a wallpaper gift that I've been working on randomly for the last few weeks. It's for my dear friend David who has helped me with a lot of stuff in the last few months. So as a token of my gratitude I'm painting him this wallpaper for his desktop. I would say I have about a few hours here and there, but this is definitely not the finished piece. It still has a lot of things missing, more lighting, rendering, and a few more fish and corral thrown in but I'm fairly happy with how it's coming. I know a lot of artists and people like to see stages of artwork, so hopefully some of my friends here can help with some constructive criticism of it. Hope you all enjoy it!

And if you're interested in who David is he's known as "thecreativeone" on Youtube and you can find him on Twitter under @DavidDiFranco. Hopefully he enjoys this too, even though it's still a work in progress.

A little old, a little new

I promised some sketches, these were ones of me trying to figure out what I exactly wanted to do with my header, and this is an old WIP (Work in Progress) example I did a while back. To show how I start an image digitally and the different stages of painting. I'm not really into drawing elves much anymore, though it's still nice to look back. I thought you all might find it interesting! Sorry these are later than planned, I've had a lot going on today. All good things though!