Sketchbook_Creatura Pages 1 - 10

These are the first ten pages from a new sketchbook, Creatura (I've been naming my sketchbooks for the past couple years and organize their files this way). Seeing as I have not posted any sketchbook pages in some time, I wanted to update with some loose, warm-up type drawings.

All sketches are based off of older drawings ranging from 2004 to 2006. I don't use reference when I redraw selected sketches; I like to see how I've improved by using only the older sketches as a starting point.

Pages 7 and 8 show rework concepts for Katlin's Beast, a creature my friend Katlin and I created in high school.

Oaxacan Horse, Stage 5 COMPLETE!

^ First order of business: obligatory shiny shot. 

^ Rib and belly markings colored. 

^ Right hind leg primed with Non-Photo Blue. 

^ Primed with Ultramarine and True Blue. 

^ Fully painted with a finishing layer of Non-Photo Blue. 

^ I color the stripes above the fetlock. 

^ Rib cage primed. 

^ Spiral motif detailed / impressed into paper. 

^ I gradate the colors for the rest of the motif. 

^ Hip motif colored! 

^ You will be missed, Non-Photo Blue nubbin. 

^ Outer edge of haunch painted. 

^ Inner haunch primed. 

^ Haunch fully primed! 

^ Ultramarine priming / painting. 

^ Impressed lines colored Orange. 

^ Haunch painted! Spiral motif drops are all that's left here. 

^ Right-rear fetlock is primed and painted similarly to the forelock and mane. 

^ Dahlia Purple is followed by Violet. 

^ Fetlock painted! 

^ ALMOST FINISHED! 

^ Tail primed with Aquamarine. 

^ More shadows primed. 

^ Violet added. 

^ Dahlia Purple added.

^ The Oaxacan Horse is COMPLETE!

I may try to adjust the colors in PS again; it's difficult to try to match super-saturated colors on a computer.

Enjoy! Thank you for following my progress or stopping by.

Oaxacan Horse, Stage 4!

^ Priming continued on the forelegs. 

^ I scraped some blue off the hoof and added white for better contrast. 

^ Painting almost finished! The far area is still comprised of priming layers. 

^ Full-body progress shot. On to the shoulder! 

^ Shoulder primed within spiral motif. 

^ Shoulder painted! 

^ Spiral motif painted! I gave the left rear hoof the same treatment as the fore with a white highlight.

Oaxacan Horse, Stage 3!

^ I bring more True Green onto the throat; body markings penciled in.

 ^ Foreleg / shoulder marking defined and impressed into paper with True Green Verithin.

^ Spine motif defined with Violet Col-Erase and Verithin. 

 ^ The rest of the throat and the chest are colored.

^ I begin priming and painting the neck with Non-Photo Blue. I've painted the hind legs' stockings and hooves.

^ More of the neck is painted; I use True Blue and Ultramarine for gradating. 

^ I was going to leave the impressed lines white, but on a whim I decided to make them Orange; I'm happy with the result. Due to complementary reaction, the Chartreuse appears yellow.

^ I begin detailing the mane with Aquamarine, marking shadows. 

^ Mane primed with Aquamarine. 

 ^ Mane primed with Magenta.

 ^ Shadows polished off with Dahlia Purple and Violet.

^ The rest of the mane is painted following the same method I used for the forelock.

^ Macro on my Orange pencil, reduced to a nub. Time to use the new Orange! 

^ Forelegs primed with True Green and Non-Photo Blue; belly spots painted with Orange.

^ Forelegs (wrist down) painted!