Trying...

That's what I'm doing. As I said, I'm striving to improve my artwork in many ways... Here is my first major attempt:

Now, let me tell you what I did WRONG here. Her posing is terrible (as usual, I just cant get it right) HOWEVER, I did better than usual... Secondly, she's aiming wrong, I tried to make it seem like she's aiming where the dragon is GOING to be, but it just didn't strike people that way... Thirdly, I seriously messed something up when saving my progress on this and the bow, arrow, wheat and ground got accidentally fused into a layer and in trying to edit them all together, I made a lot of mistakes... When I drew the mountains they were very 2-Dimensional and in trying to make them 3D, I made a lot of mistakes... I then tried hiding all of my mistakes with lens blur, bright lighting, overlays, effect layers, and effectively took a hug shit right on top of it, just to polish it off.... So, it started off quite good, I started with the girl and was happy with a lot of my shading and colouring, but it eventually went in the wrong direction... But that's okay! I wanted to learn from this and I have. I'm just going to let it lay as a failure and move on, undeterred (well, slightly deterred) to the next piece... Also, yes, with Iron man 3 having come out, you CAN expect me to do another Iron Man painting... Even though I said I'd stop using references so much, I just have to do another... Wouldn't you agree?

I should also thank Iron Man 3 for my latest influx in views, aside from my best friend's DDoS attacks, most of my views are coming from people trying to find out more about all the cool suits they saw in Iron Man 3, and I know, they're pretty hard to find, but you shouldnt go by my 'Men of Iron' or whatever I called it, as reference because those were all drawn from the awesome Hasbro figures I'm collecting... So, I'll help you out, I can give you the names of a few and then you can google those or whatever... 

Okay, so the new poster armor is no longer Mark VIII (8), but is Mk 42... Then the other armors you see in the film are known as 'Shotgun', 'Hammerhead', 'Iron Patriot', 'Igor', 'Starboost', 'Heart-breaker', 'Red Snapper', 'Striker' (one of my favourites), 'Silver Centurion' and there is a black and gold one which you see in the film, which is very similar to the Stealth Operations armor from the comics so... Maybe it's that? There are more, but that's all I know as of yet, unfortunately...

Also, I've been working on a bit of comission work lately, a bit of stuff for Lovebuzz clothing again and a map for a writer's book, check them out:

A new direction.

I've come to a decision... within the next few days I will remove the bestiary page. These works were repetitive and were getting me nowhere, the story I was building was mediocre and cliché, I want to focus on working above and beyond, doing something new every day, as I have been recently, and working on developing some level of skill as a 3D artist too.
I've been stuck at the same level in my artwork for quite a while now without making any real improvements. That ends now. The bestiary and all related projects are, at most, being put on hiatus for now, I may revisit in the future for a total overhaul of all creatures (and getting rid of some of the crappier ones). Until then, the bestiary WILL be preserved right here: https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.574438495902350.1073741834.566268886719311&type=3
If you choose to follow my journey as a hastily progressing digital artist, I thank you for sticking by and I look forward to my future works.

I don't like to make a post without any pictures, this is an art blog after all, so here, have some little bits and pieces I've been doing lately...

Thats about it, expect a post soon with more interesting things :P 

Design Overhaul

I've completely redesigned the blog to accommodate my new logo. Hope you guys like it. Here's some of the things I've done playing around with my logo:

STAGgering into space

*cough* excuse the pun...
I spent all day and a little bit of last night on this and I'm actually pretty proud of it, there's a few things I'm not sure of, but It's quite good.

I like this so much (and stags) that I'm going to work on FINALLY coming up with a logo including a gold-horned albino stag.
I'd REALLY like it if I could get some feedback on this, on Twitter or here... Or even my facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Thedoubletap

Thanks :)

Another painting

This was supposed to be really good, it was supposed to have the beautiful lighting and colours that my work always lacks but... Yeah...
It's an Anendeus fight an ADU (a.k.a dragon)... I did this, however, whilst pulling an all-nighter... And somewhere between rushing to finish it and being really tired, I lost direction with it... The pose is terrible 'looks like he's ice-skating', apparently the lighting isn't great either... I know I can do better and this is really disappointing...

Some feedback would be appreciated, I'm really going to crack down and work on my painting for the moment, so, with me doing that and the 2 commissions I have to do lately I'm not going to be updting my bestiary or concepts much for a while.

I got a lot to tell you!

First of all, I want to say a huge thank you because I've finally reached 2000 views, and a lot quicker than I received 1000, so keep em coming :D

Secondly, I have no new creatures for the bestiary (I know! hat a lazy bugger I am!) But I do have this:

Another armour design, this time, for the Aggressive Defence Unit ( and I misspelled defence, what a tool). I'd have more to show you, but I've started like 4 designs (including an Engineering and Repair Unit and a huge spaceship) and haven't finished any of them... I have more stuff to show you though, off-topic procrastination stuff though....

I did some fan-art of the lovably quirky Merrill from Dragon Age 2, this turned out great, if I may say so myself!

And uhmm... Oh... I think that's it... I guess I am being rather lazy lately... Well, thanks for checking these out! :)

New creature, painting AND Maggot Hank.

As usual, I have a new creature design, this one is based on a Wasp and a Firefly:

For more creatures and in-depth informations on each of them, please, check out my bestiary: thedbltapbestiary.blogspot.co.uk

Secondly, this new creature has made an appearance, alongside the Field Scientist Unit in the first of what should be many illustrative paintings based around my new, ever-growing world, story thing...
Here it is, I do hope you enjoy it:

That is not all I have in store for you, as it happens, out of boredom and procrastination this week I have created my own horror villain. For obvious reasons, I have named him, Maggot Hank. the idea was to made him as vile and insane as possible, I did practically the opposite as he has failed to come across as vile to the extent of which I had hoped. At any rate, I spent a good long while on this and I, again, do sincerely hope you enjoy it. Here it is, for your viewing pleasure, or displeasure, should you be squeamish:

That would be all. thank you greatly for reading.