Link!

He's got squiffy eyes.

Armadillo character design I'm working on with a friend. 

Armadillos are surprisingly difficult to anthropomorphise. I like his hair a lot.

 More Vegeta. Sorry.

I was going for a post battle image, with tattered gloves and spandex that now needs throwing away and wounds that should probably get treated. I imagined this was, like every battle of Vegeta's, one he lost, or rather one he couldn't win without Goku. So he's pissed off that despite his best efforts, he's still come home to Capsule Corp in this state. He's pulling his gloves off. Why he's looking at you whilst he does it I don't know - in fact he'd probably look better if he was looking at what he was doing. It kinda implies something very different, then. Maybe I'll change it before I post this elsewhere.

This was the sketch. Originally his hair was huge, in the finished picture it's probably too small. Can't win.

Also I had so much trouble with his butt. Hid it in the darkness in the end.

A returning customer ordered their third t-shirt from me. I made a similar one to this last year. It's the skeleton of a Giganotosaurus, painted using bleach.

I actually tried to film this one with my new Go Pro but it was kinda too dark to really see. I need to get a daylight lamp - I've wanted one for a while both for art and health, and it would be good for my pet birds also. :)

If you're interested in commissioning a similar shirt, get in touch at joeyfells at gmail dot com :)

More Vegeta.

Really should draw something important.

I liked this guy until I couldn't work out where his feet would end up.

Found this nice dragon drawing in a sketchbook and assumed I'd scanned it ages ago and thought it would be cool to try colouring it. 

But all I did was ruin a nice drawing.

In seriousness, I might work on this some more I dunno. It's just a dragon. I draw millions of them. I've got to stop being scared of ruining art and just get on with it.

But it was stupid to think I could just pick up watercolours and make them work without trying when I ain't touched them in months.

I had a super lazy day today in bed but now my bed is covered in pencil shavings and eraser rubbings. Lmao. It's like the good old days.

These are some of the better drawings. The rest were embarrassingly bad. It's rare I'm embarrassed enough to not post something on here, I'm usually pretty objective about this blog being a personal documentation of progress and the like. That's why I'm trying to write a little more when I post art too, so I can look back in embarrassment at the stuff I tell you guys.

I've never drawn Bulma or Gohan before and yet they look better than the Veggie sketches. I think I need to go back to looking at references when I draw Vegeta cuz something is amiss.

Today has been insainly stressful. My router died. It was like 10 years old. I can't even remember the last time I had internet issues, so I guess I was due one. It's funny, realising how much I rely on the internet. Either way, sorted now, phew.

I did these headshots of Vegeta and Goku yesterday. I don't know how I feel about them. I think Goku looks pretty damn good, especially given how infrequently I've draw him. But Vegeta's face is just wrong and I can't place why. Looking at it now, his eyes are squiffy, but I don't think that's all. I think his skin tone is just wrong too. Maybe I over worked it I don't know anymore. Is his jaw too low too? 

I remember as a kid my dad being like "all the characters look the same" and yeah he had a point. So this was an exercising in finding their minor differences and exaggerating them stylistically.

Some sketches of Goku. They're not great but art is a process yada yada.

I haven't worked on this in ages, but I thought I should show where I left off in hopes it'll encourage me to work on it some more.

As if lol.

Some time in early December I think it was, someone got in touch with me via email with a really interesting t-shirt commission request. 

At the time I was super busy, but said that in the new year I could work on it. Their idea was a tunnel - which not only works great with the bleached colour you get from a black shirt, this grungy rusty orange, but a few years ago I painted a tonnes of similar tunnels in various media. Okay more than a few. I'm old. I get it.

It turned out pretty cool. I used freezer paper to block off some areas at first, later removing it to work on those. Hadn't done anything like that before.

Arrow the Porcupine!

He'll be 10 this year. Seriously cannot believe that ten years ago I first drew this guy and posted him on deviantArt. Like, seriously, ten years ago. A decade ago. I'm old.

Sorry for the crappy photo but here are some stickers I made this evening!

Super Sonic from Fleetway Sonic the Comic, Buu from Dragon Ball Z and Squad from the Walibi parks. :)

EDIT: Now on Etsy! https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/JosephFells?section_id=10738207

Wanted to do something wintery and play with brush marks. Scrawled this digitally yesterday.

Squad!

http://www.theworldofwalibi.com/

His eye scar and chip out of his ear is on the wrong side. Whoops. Don't like it flipped the other way though.

Tried to think about the shading on this, using tones found elsewhere for shadows and highlights. Some areas turned out really nice.

Life was hectic on the run up to Christmas working two jobs along with the usual Christmas crap! So this is kind of old now... Was drawn for a friend's birthday.

Progress on the dragon. :) Coming along quite nice. I need to stop working into it though and figure out how it's sat in the environment, because currently it's a bit ambiguously flat down there.

Friend asked me to draw Fox from Starfox Adventures.

His clothing is surprisingly complicated. But it came out pretty good. :)

Except for the staff  has a kink in it conveniently hidden by his hand. That part really sucks. His eyes are a bit squiffy too actually.

Was sketching a dragon and I had this neat lightning idea.

Whether I'll actually take this anywhere though is another matter... I still have that dragon painting I started back in October to finish. Looking at it now though it's so full of horrid mistakes.

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