Death to Chronos babeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!! #hades2 #procreate #sketch #art

Another 3D render paintover. I like how quickly I can set up variations on an idea, and still start to work out the mood in a painting program. #blender3d #clipstudio #art #conceptart

I'm messing around with a 3D sculpt/paintover workflow to get some rocky backgrounds for my comic book. It feels like cheating, but it's fun taking the noisy render and simplifying the shapes. #art #blender3d #clipstudio #conceptart #sketch

I've covered my office walls in corkboard to put up my sketches for inspiration, and it's funny that some of the drawings that are neighbors have started to imply new stories. #art #digitalart #painting

Bit more sci fi strip

I'm trying to focus on one piece of anatomy at a time during sketching sessions. And luckily skeletons and muscles are similar between all tetrapods. Here's I'm trying to understand the upper arm of a lion. #anatomy #sketch #art

Doodling this character who works out in deep space. How seriously does she take her job? Does she wear her uniform properly or tie her hair back around heavy machinery? Does she miss home? Another round of sketching would be focused on trying to find visual answers to these questions. #comics

A lot of the art I like is of evenly lit subjects. And I'm only now realizing how almost invisible changes in value can still convey form. This second study is a master copy of a Sargent, and you can see how I've overworked the detail in the lit form and damaged the value structure. #painting #art

This is a work in progress for a location design where the first scene of my comic takes place: An unstable space station. Constructed procedurally by robots whose programming has degraded over the centuries, until they've created a place where no human can survive. #comics #conceptdesign

In first blue study, I chose to ignore the reference and focus on light and shadow, and I got a mood and character I really like. But with this second stiffer study, I tried to match the reference and fell into the trap of trying to fix things in the details rather than the large shapes. #painting

I'm starting work on a villain using Ian McCaig's character design technique: Do a rough sketch, ask questions about the character, and try to find visual answers to those questions. Those answers then make up the design elements.

check out this album cover i finished for my buddies in Austin #dayfriend i think it speaks to the current situation we are in 🥰

Another #hardOps sketch. I'm trying to make these light enough for Gravity Sketch, but my natural corner-cuttingness is making me question how clean these should be. If they're just going to be for digital paint-overs, do I need to sweat the topology? #bg3 #conceptart

I've at *least* started #writing again this week, but got pulled into the weeds on a secondary character who isn't even alive when my story starts. In my defense, they're responsible for the environment where most of it takes place. But the good news is I know exactly what to work on next! #comics

The Hidden Fortress/ Star Wars #akirakurosawa #georgelucas

I want to start building an asset library for #kitbashing in #gravitysketch. This is a quick #b3d sketch of a scifi v-clamp or "marman" clamp, which fun fact, was designed by Zeppo Marx's company.

I've been recording a lot of folk covers lately and pitching up the tracks to sound like mice. I don't think I'd go through with it, but it would be fun to make a 2D or 3D rig of a little folk-singer mouse. #mice #art #conceptart

I didn't know there was a special week! I posted too early! #goblinweek

I think I’m scared to start my comic because I have no idea what it’ll look like. So I’ll doodle nonsense pages with random dialogue trying and glimpse an end result. But I think I just gotta do it and accept that it wont be perfect and it'll evolve as I learn what I like to draw. #comics #myart

A lot of the music I make on my iPad is done in this patching app called apeMatrix, and I usually just loop it for a while to relax and throw it all away when I'm done. But it would be nice to make more little chill-out animations like this. #iosmusc #blender

The heart of my protagonist's spaceship is the hydroponics passion project left behind by her late friend. I caught myself starting to design it today, but I'm trying to stick to the rule of not designing/researching anything that isn't in the first script. #conceptart #comicsart

Quote your portraits 🤵#art #arttrain #myart #portraits

On my way to designing a full spaceship I'm going to practice designing standalone components, thinking of them like characters with their own purposes and goals. A radiator or an engine should visually indicate what its purpose is and how it transforms energy. #conceptart #spaceships #blender3d

I didn't do a huge number of personal projects in and around the pandemic. But I really liked making this and want to do more. Short little things like this let me learn animation and practice music. #animation #iosmusic #ghost #art

Whelp! I already broke my agreement with myself to post something every day this year because of the wildfires here in L.A. I only had to evacuate for one night but haven't felt creative these last few days. The only thing I ended up making was this doodle of my friend’s cat. #cat #art

I think this month is going to be a lot of work trying to create quick and simple value statements for figures and environments. And also writing the backstory for a character who is dead long before the first page of my story. #procreate #sketch #art

Some portrait studies from photo reference. I really wanted to improve my ability to draw likenesses last year. Even when I miss the mark now, I've learned so much about what makes a face recognizable. Especially around the keystone area where the brow meets the nose. #art #portrait #procreate

I’m having a hard time finding methods on spaceship concept design. Most of the advice I’ve found has to do with simple thematic (good/evil) shapes and ratios of surface greeble, but that’s not the kind of design that I’m good at, and it tends to produce generic ideas from me. #conceptart #design

I’m leaving this post really just for me. I’ve had an idea for a while, and I want that idea to be the project I can process everything I read this year. I want it to be the project that anything new and exciting that I’m learning in art can go towards.

I'm nearly done drawing 100 portraits from photo reference, and I wanted to see how that practice has changed my ability to draw from imagination. So here's some goblins. They're all good guys! #goblins #painting #sketch #procreate

I spent the last few months of '24 trying to clarify a new way of working that suits me. '25's going to be a big experimental year for me. *gulp* lee-mendez.squarespace.com/blog/2024/12... #creativity #productivity #writing

Homework for an environment design Shoolism course: Timed studies of scenes from film and animation. The goal is to edit out the detail and leave only the main elements. I'm hoping this helps develop an intuition for designing my own compositions, which I feel particularly weak on. #procreate #art

I'm almost to 100 portraits from photo reference this year. This is ~85ish. I'm excited about making forms seem rounder and deflecting attention with softer edges (like in her hair). #TheGreat #art #painting #procreate

Spent a part of today doing studies of birds in preparation to prepare to one day maybe if I remember complete a Schoolism homework assignment. #birds #sketch #art #procreate

Like clockwork, the Six Traditional Post-Christmas Pooches have arrived to help me workshop my New Year's Resolutions. #dogs #art #sketches #procreate

@jakob-haq.bsky.social @brambosofficial.bsky.social I just wanted to say that Solderbox has been my go to music tool for chilling out in the mornings! I'm working my way through the manual, but it's so much fun so far! Ya'll did amazing work! Thank you!!

Hi! My name is Lee. I'm a CG artist whose been learning to paint in earnest this year. I'm not planning on posting a lot, but I thought I'd leave these here so future generations will know I'm not a bot. #art #procreate #blender