Female form - Starting rough

Firstly I've fixed my upload problem, had to repair my disk. So I can now upload images full size, with out jumping through imageshack hoops, etc. 

Any way here is the starting rough form, I'm trying to break away from Daarkens starting/final painting. It still is kinder his pose but been  try and change it to my liking.

Feeling going have problem with hands + wrist at moment and then fitting "Dem legs thighs!" on to the page, so may rescale it later.

Daarken - Egg Study

Daarken's still life egg tutorial

Source image:

My study:

NightCrawler - Final

Not really happy with my final out come, something feels missing also its a bit too blue for me. The background that suppose to be a room corner just gets lost eventually... Meh? I also tried doing a sort of freshly just teleport in thing, with the purple smoke, but it just looked terrible I'll probably end up showing you Steve.

Final

Progression .Gif

NightCrawler - Awful sketches

Tried to do some sketches but could get the pose and suff positioned the way I wanted it so gave up in the end, was going do a couple more but just can't be asked at moment with everything else. I have a rough more simple idea in my head now, so I'm going do a Daarken and just go for it. I know you like development steve but... I just can't at moment. So I'm just going go for it, I'll make sure to make a progress of it though.

NightCrawler - Setup and Technique

Ok I'm going try an do a Bobby Chiu's set up style with the large canvas, border, ruler lines and reference images. But still use Daarken's general technique, since I enjoyed that more. 

Also before I get started hopefully steve will be able to help me again. 

While I was doing bobby's artist study, while I was drawing/paint and I want to pass a rule line my brush would but the line would follow up the ruler, I think it's a setting I had on when we were doing perspective drawing in the first year, not sure how to disable it now.

Setup:

Example of my issue:

NightCrawler - Moodboard

I have an idea already of an close up of night crawler high up on a city skyscraper, with the viewer looking down on him and the streets below. Yes, he is looking up at the view and most probably going be grinning. I have a feeling though Steves most likely not going to like this pose though, considering my halloween brief, I can hear it now "what is he looking at?". 

So going try out some silhouette poses to start with. 

Think it will be good to have the colour palette as Blue > Purple > Orange (NC skin > Teleportation smoke/dark tones in skin and clothing > orange glow of street lights below.) 

Also blue and orange and complementary colours, but its going to be a bit odd since orange is a warm colour and always want to be drawn to the front and usually the viewer is drawn to the warm colours first, so going make sure to either dim it down or make it bit more saturated than the blue. 

But then again the glowing eyes (like in my Moodboard below) may draw the viewers attention to the eyes and face first anyway. 

Artist Study (ii) - Final and Progress

I really enjoyed doing this piece these brushes and process was really fun for me, also the whole not zooming in and not concentrating on the details really help managed to work pretty fast on this. Sorry I didn't do the whole thing, just felt only going up to this stage was adequate enough. May come back to this and do the finishing touches at a later date.

Artist's Original.