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: