HTTYD Costumes

Wow, it been awhile since the last time I posted. Okay, so halloween is around the corner, not one of my favorite holiday, but it's growing on me. A couple of days ago I rewatched HTTYD and decided to draw this thought I had during the movie. A toothless baby wearing a Toothless costume and I thought of halloween and..trick or treating...candy...pumpkin...okay so my mind wonder for a bit, but I still finish the drawing I was thinking of. Enjoy!!!

A project I will revisit to make it better

Over the summer I got to work with a student from AAU to help her redesign some of her character design for her thesis. This is some of the clean-up work:

I CHALLENGE YOU, ALIEN TOY!!!

I'm a big kid at heart, so I like to draw illustration of little kids playing, so when I got a weekly challenge of to draw a Cowboy vs Alien theme drawing, I can't help myself, but draw this.

I spy with my eyes a....

For the past few weeks I been working on character design project for a student at AAU and now that it's over, I  celebrated with a drawing of a mermaid (that is going to kill you because according to one of my dear friend...she has a scary look hahahah. I really didn't mean to, it just end up like that I'll try to draw a nicer one next time).

I didn't think this drawing was going to be too much time, but it took longer than I thought to finish it because I really wanted to have the mermaid to have different hair colors and different color for the shading. I was inspired with Kei Phillips vector drawing/coloring of her characters so I was giving that a try. This drawing was really fun because I learn how to mask layers on photoshop, it really make coloring alot easier.

So enjoy for now, more to come later ^^

-Thanh

Warm-up: Fanboy Captain America

So I watched Captain America a couple days ago and I will admit, it's not a bad film. So today warm-up is a drawing of a kid looking around his house using a trash can cover as the shield, cut out holes on his beanie and wear it like a mask, wears a t-shirt with a sew in star, uses his dad working boots as his shoe, and places his mom dish washing gloves for gloves.

The drawing was inspired by this: drawing

Making of the Cowgirl Illustration

I got inspired to draw cowgirl after this post by a former classmate.

I was looking around for inspiration pose for the drawing and I came across a small pin-up thumbnail painting in the book "The Great American Pin-Up" by Harry Ekman.

It was an interesting pose gesture so I design my cowgirl character around that pose, but add some of my own idea into it. I started with a rough doodle and from there I redraw the drawing using the pen tool to create the lineart:   

 

With the lineart done, I color the character using just simple one tone color to see what suit this character best for me.  

 I'm not really good with tone coloring yet so I'm just testing this style out.

Then I added some highlight and change the background and there you do, my cowgirl pin-up.

-Thanh Ma

Pin-Up Girl

Two years ago I got a book call "The Great American Pin-Up" and I felt in love with all the different styles and gestures in the book. Now I finally got the time try some of the style out and make it my own.