Amelia and Pup Portrait

It's been a long time since I have updated my blog
so I thought I would share a recent commission.

A few years ago I did a digital painting of

my client's granddaughter.  

They wanted a portrait of their other granddaughter
and the family's new pup!

Here's a quick look at my process...

Steps 1 through 6 is sketching to figure out
what I am thinking and composition.

I like to sketch in blue and then turn it into black
to move onto the next steps.

Steps 7 through 9 I was going to start painting
in color and so I fill it all in for an underpainting
and created a palette to work in values.

I changed my mind and decided to work in
grayscale and then do color overlays. 

I added more detail throughout my process
but didn't want to get too detailed.
I wanted it to look more traditional and
match the quality of the painting I did
for them previously. 

With a few revisions to step twelve, here's the final art.

I don't consider myself an expert in painting

portrait and know I have a lot to learn!

Thanks for visiting the Robb Blog!

Coloring For Comic Conventions - James Bui

Here are some illustrations I colored for fellow Art Samurai student, James Bui.

James and I both attend Art Samurai workshops taught by comic book pro Tom Nguyen.

James attends various comic book conventions in Texas and commissioned me to color his pencils for prints he sells at the various conventions!

     

 

 

 

For more information on James and his work visit his Facebook page.
https://www.facebook.com/ArtofJDB

For more information on Tom Nguyen visit his website.
http://tomnguyenstudio.com

If you are interested in commissioning me as a colorist, contact me at:
robb@robbmiller.com

Albert Einstein and Maya Angelo Sketches

Albert Einstein by Robb Miller

Maya Angelo by Robb Miller

Here are some sketches I did for a project here at work.

Check out more of my work at: robbmiller.com

SpringCon this weekend!!!

I will be at SpringCon this weekend — May 17th and 18th.

I am selling the above prints, doing some sketches and telling people about Art Samurai!

Come by and check it out! It's a great local comic book convention!

For more information on SprinCon click HERE!!!

Art Samurai Homework for April 16th, 2014

This is my homework for tonight's Art Samurai workshop.

Here is the workshop description:

THEME: Anatomy: Veins!

ASSIGNMENT:  Design and draw a very muscular alien monster, but with these caveats:

•  very little to no costume to show muscularity
•  base the muscularity after human anatomy
•  make this character show extreme vascularity (tons of VEINS).  This assignment  will help you identify and draw the major veins on the human body that will aid in your anatomy drawing.
•  make sure this character is in an ACTION pose
•  feel free to use reference!

 Be creative and have fun!

Can I consider flexing an action pose?

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Conceptual illustrations

Here is some recent art I did. I can't share the whole image yet. I am under contract to not share.

Image it has something to do with MineCraft.

ArtSamurai Assignment for March 5th, 2014

Revised version 

Head turns

Tom Nguyen's critique notes

Here's what I turned in to Art Samurai for last night's workshop. I learned a lot and had some laughs.
Tom Nguyen gave a lot of explanation to how and why things look the way they do and how to think about things when drawing. It was good to see other attendee's work too. If I were to draw this again it would not be the same.

I found that I need to look at women's butts more. I need to study them. It's for art sake so my wife shouldn't get upset. I made my panties all wrong! More butt, more butt! I did put more 'junk in her trunk.'

It was a great learning experience and a good reason to have an assignment and practice!


For more info on Art Samurai visit the website: http://artsamurai.net

Leg practice

Experimenting posting to my blog from iPad and this blogger app. These are some sketches of legs for practice.

DR. OZ caricature

Giraffe and Monkey

Here's a 'warm-up' sketch. I worked on here and there just for fun and practice.

I did a cartoon giraffe and monkey before for my nephew's room.
Giraffe and Monkey <---Link

Maybe this is them grown up. I guess the monkey got his tail clipped off. 

That's maybe why he became a bad-ass!

Metal Bear

Just a sketch of a bear listening to some metal.

Gift Caricatures

Here are some gift caricatures I did for a few corporate clients!

Quick iPad sketches

Here are a few really quick sketches done in Sketchbook Pro on my iPad while waiting for my flight at the airport.. The crazy thing about these two is that they both got up and walked away before I was totally finished with them. Out of 50 or so people I was able to choose to draw, these two were the only to get up and walk away. I was sneaky too! Meh...

Commission caricature

This was done for a nice business woman at General Mills.

Quick sketch

Here's a quick sketch of an interesting guy I saw leaving the gym.

Stylist/Teacher Caricature

Here's a recent caricature of a stylist/teacher who deserved a 'thank you.'

NE Dance Logo

Final logo

Options based on feedback

First concepts done without any direction from client. A starting place.

Here's a logo I design for Ritz Theater/Ballet of the Dolls in Minneapolis.

I was told to make it look like it belonged with other materials they use and that was basically all the direction I got in the beginning. From feedback on the initial concepts I develop a few more variations. After getting some more feedback from the client I finished it up in Illustrator and gave two options.

http://www.ritzdolls.com/

Gift Caricature

Here's a gift caricature for a wonderful lady that works for a wonderful company.