Fellow readers, 

this post is dedicated to the latest tool I’ll be adding to my personal tool arsenal:

Escape Motion Rebelle

This marvelous little program is just brilliant and it has the potential to quickly become a must-have tool for any digital painter with a traditional backround. Why? Rebelle is simply unrivaled when it comes to watercolor simulation. Over the last 5 years I’ve been beta testing many tools like moxi, expressii and others, and none of them matches Rebelle’s quality and ease of use. Furthermore its’ stabilty and price make buying this piece of software a no-brainer. Without hesitation I’d love to recommend getting Rebelle, which really takes traditional painting simulation to a whole new level. Make sure you check out their demo and support the authors of this incredible application.

Just flirting with colors and brushes… I like the vibrancy but yet it feels like a very common and almost cliche palette. Still when working with color I tend to oversaturate things.

Not sure what happened, but I call it a study… Considering I had no reference for this I like the mood. The composition unfortunately sucks. The lower half/third works better on its own…?!

All refs taken from Alien (1979)… more studies to come. This is fun!

Edit: I added a couple of last minute fixes: usually I dont fix my mistakes even when I see them. Thats a bad habit and I’ll try to polish all studies more from now on or at least dont be so sloppy about it.

20 minutes, 20 gesture scribbles

…aproximately 6 minutes each…

I was about to start with 30 second gestures but from my experience I’m too slow for that so I started with 20 x 60sec poses. After that I started three 6 minute gestures. I wish the three last ones were 60 second sketches. Seems possible to me…

By the way, the reference images come from quickposes.com. Make sure you check it out! I even contributed a donation to their upcoming app which I’m really looking forward to.

Sometimes I want to share silly stuff like photos or doodles… or photodoodles, so I’m now ready to post on the go via my mobile! You gotta love the digital age… 

… sad moments are everywhere… Fortunately the mana machine is just around the corner! 

You know how it is: Whenever you think it cannot get any worse you prove yourself wrong with the next thing you draw… well, I really need to warm up with 60sec sketches first. Otherwise what’s supposed to be simple, quick studies takes ages. It’s also interesting for me to notice how much I’m attracted to:
a) women (please note I picked a MALE this time), and
b) shading instead of linework. I’m constantly thinking of adjusting the brush diameter and GET ReAL mEsSy!!!… luv’ it!