I must be nuts or ....yes i know I have about a dozen half finished things on my plate.. but everytime I get an Idea I have to do something about it.
Heres the lates. I'm a huge pirate fan so I thought a sexy pirate sitting on a chest defending her booty (pun intended)

anyway heres a rare occasion where you can see the very very beginings. This is the finalized rough sketch

 

Very cool...i wanna see this one done!

and i like the sig...the punchline to the joke.

 

hehehe

 

Very cool!

great idea and concept. Cant wait to see it completed

 

heres the color mock up I just finished.. at this stage I've played with colors and tried to get a general lighting scheme down.

 

Oh yeah, someone has been very busy.
Nice one Doug.

 

ok heres the start of the coloring in ernest
this is pretty close to done (the sword) I'll tune the final shading the highlights one i have the rest of the image done. you can see there is very little in the way of actual details. It gives you the impression that there is actual detail there.

 

Doug, we should get Scott to set up a tutorial sub-forum in gen'l art and pin this thread as a great "how-to-paint" with Photoshop.
You're providing great stuff here.

 

Once I get it done..10 years from now lol We can pin it until we can get the powers tha be to do it.. Not sure if there is enough content for an entire tuts section yet

 

How big of an image are you working with for this layout?


(Pssss--time to use that new title changing skill, I think today is 7/01/06.
Unless you started this a month ago.)

 

the image is at 24x36" at 300 dpi
thanks for the date update..I'm of course behind the times once again

 

a bit more worked on...by no means done. JUst really roughing in the colors now.

 

some facial action

 

love the original color mock up!

cannot wait to see this done...**** i need a tablet so i can make awesome things like that....not that i couldn't do it with the mouse but it would take me like 10 x longer.

 

Thanx Chris,
Yeah tablets rock but they aren't cheap

Heres a bit more of an update. Started the hair today. This is just blocked in not really detailed yet (hair sucks) The face will be prettied up..nothing is final yet.

 

More face action..I think she's coming along nice...Face is starting to look pretty. Now I just need to decide if she needs a scare across her cheak

 

1 vote for a scar!

 

I thought you had to work big to get such great detailing, just didn't know it was that large.

Another one for a scar, maybe even make it an eyebrow to cheek scar going down instead of across.

 

got some more done. Skull and rum and arms now

 

Hey is this Mrs. Capt.Morgan ( spiced Rum ) one she's not bad arrr matee.