It's the pitts

Robin

In Oxford there's a museum called Pitt Rivers. It's magical. It has dinosaur skeletons and crystals. A piece of a million year old meteor and all sorts of peculiar things collected from across the globe... including a collection of assorted skulls. I was thinking of Pitt Rivers tonight... so here's a skull for face no. 2... and almost within the 1 hour time frame. I shall combat the faff!

Humble beginnings

Tarkin - wip

The first face for the 29 faces. Far from finished... the idea was bigger than my time limit. That's my challenge for this time around. Only allowing myself an hour on a painting at a time. Not that it has to be finished after an hour... but I must have a break from it and work on something else for an hour. I have become terrible at faffing and once I get stuck on fiddling the strokes tighten up and the painting dies. So this is an attempt to counter act this annoying habit by stopping myself before I have time to get fiddly. I did spend over two hours on this, but it's late and I was fiddling ;-) So I got thinking... even Grand Moff Tarkin may have started out as humble storm trooper.

Teething problems

Esgym - wip

So, there is an idea behind this, but I need to go to bed now.

Invincible

So there's a wonderfully talented artist lady from Poland going by the name of Kyoux that I follow on Deviant Art - check her out, she rocks! She has created a whole bunch of really cool characters that she paints and writes about and has invited anyone who's interested to have a go at making their own interpretation of her characters. Looking through her character bios I had an urge to attempt a blue-eyes, white fringed, goatee'd, drug lord of Japanese descent named Sessue.
So who do you turn to for inspiration when it comes to super-awesome Japanese fellas? Well, for me there's only one choice... one of my all time favourite actors - Hiroyuki Sanada. Because... lets's face it... he's probably one of the coolest people to walk the planet.

Or to put it in the words of OKGO

'When they finally come to destroy the earth
They'll have to deal with you first
Now, my money says they won't know about
The thousand Fahrenheit hot metal lights behind your eyes
Invincible
you're invincible
That crushing, crashing, atom-smashing, white hot thing
It's invincible'

Bring out the bronze

Aichel - wip

Aichel again. Work in progress.

Journey of the sorcerer

Aichel

Here is yet another version of Aichel. Sorcerer, demon charmer, banjo player, hater of broccoli and more often than not too darn handsome for his own good.
This attempt was brought on by watching the breathtakingly handsome Rami Malek as King Ahkmenrah in Night at the Museum.
Enjoy :-)

Going green

Eirian - wip

Another wip. This time it's a more casual King Eirian. It's what I like to call his 'road trip' look. I have so many wip's going at the moment. But hey... at least there's plenty to get on with and finish ;-) The trick is to actually choose one... and then get on with it and finish it.