Mushroom Spores Part 1

This all starts with a magic the gathering deck - Xavier Sal the Infested Captain. Back in the day I had a different Saproling commander deck that I really enjoyed. For those who don't know what a Saproling is, it is a sort of fungus plant creature in the magic the gathering card game universe. Usually depicted like the image below.

Your typical Saproling creature.

Now, with Xavier Sal I have breathed new life into a Saproling deck once again! Where is this all going? Well, fungus creatures, which make Saprolings, need spore counters. Counters which are usually tracked with a simple dice. However, I want to step it up a notch so I'm going to make my own spore counters with mushrooms and spores on them! It's inspired me to make some small 4x4 images. Here they are!

I'm continuing my journey into the world of colouring with markers - I like how they are turning out. They're made with Copic, Ohuhu markers, and Copic multiliners for the outlines. My plan is to put a portion of the image onto a small chit token. I'll print on circle stickers then I can apply them to the chits.

Here's the rough sketch work for each of the images.

I'm planning to do another set of 4 mushroom spore images so that I'll have a large variety of tokens, but I'm also just having a lot of fun making these. Thanks for stopping by!

Opus February Daily Challenge 2024 - Part 5

 

On to the final prompts!

It's always amazing to me how at the end of a whole month you can look back and just hold a whole swack of real, physical art pieces in your hands that otherwise never would have existed. The final push brought out more colour inclusion - it increases the overall time, but I've learned I need to do it more often. Here they are!

That's it! That's all the art for this challenge. Hopefully it doesn't take until the next monthly challenge for me to make more art. Thanks for taking a look! Lastly, here's the thumbnails and sketches again.

Opus February Daily Challenge 2024 - Part 4

 

Prompts!

Another set of pieces. I've really enjoyed doing the pictures of my family. It gives me a break from trying to brainstorm some creative idea and just focus on rendering a nice picture.

Here are the thumbnails sketches and rough full size sketches I did for the above pieces. I feel like I'm starting to get into the flow of making each piece - like I've got a pipeline from start to finish now.

Opus February Daily Challenge 2024 - Part 3

 

The prompts again!

It was going well, but I definitely started to feel the commitment of a month long daily challenge again!

I started taking to doing some of these in bed! Often, I wasn't able to get to these until late in the day. So I would take my supplies and my light board and sit in bed and make these while my wife watched a show on the tv. It works, and I really like this batch of pieces.

Opus February Daily Challenge 2024 - Part 2

 Here's a look at another set of pieces I did for the next part of the Opus daily challenge in February.

Here are the prompts!

Now the colours are really starting to come out. I got a set of grey markers with red greys, green greys, blue greys etc. It's a lot of fun using them. There's also some small splashes of pencil crayon colour. Colour has always been a bit intimidating, but there's no denying the different it can make in a piece.

Opus February Daily Challenge 2024 - Part 1

When I learned about this challenge my local art store was putting on I was excited to do another daily challenge like Inktober. My first Inktober was a lot of fun, a lot of work, but a lot of fun. I've been pretty sick for a while, but luckily was feeling well when February came around. I almost didn't do this challenge though because life is busy! However, the success of Inktober pushed me over the edge to just do it. I'm happy I did!

Here are the prompts.

I've done the same thing I did in Inktober which was limit the size of my daily challenge pieces to the size of an index card. It limits my time spend on these to 1.5 to 2 hours. This time, I've also started adding a bit of colour - there is a lot more by the end of the challenge. Colour increases the time for sure, but the results make me happy.

Finally, here are the sketches I did for each piece. There are thumbnails for different ideas and the full size sketch used to make each piece. I use my light board to trace over my sketch and create the final piece.