(alenah´s) sketchbook

[alenah]

hi, I am new here,
been a fan of CA for a long time,
but only now I´ve decided to start my sketchbook here, too;

although I´ve been doing illustration & concept work for some time already,
looking at all those amazing and inspirative other member´s sketchbooks or galleries makes me sometimes feel like my own "art journey" has only begun
(and makes me want to learn more each time; this learning process never ends, I know ..)
so I thought I´d start a sb thread, where I´d share some sketches, concepts, ideas, brush experiments or techniques-tests (or maybe just some primitive idea-capturing doodles or scriblings that I often produce as a side-effect when trying to do some "more serious" work; or maybe whatever else .. )

I do not know where this may go, as I do not have much time
(a freelance illustrator/2D-image-post-processing & visual/concept artist; self-taught),
but I´ll try to share what I´ll do or learn as I go, from time to time, either traditional or digital ..
hopefully it might perhaps be of some interest for someone here ..
Pls feel free to post any kind of feedback, welcome,
a.

Before I post something new,
here´s a series of some older work,
that I - pretty randomly - picked from my site-portfolio or other forums´ sketchbooks or galleries of mine, and so ..










+ process ..



+ the process




(I am learning ZBrush, lately)
and this is what I got while experimenting with brushes;
trying to add the 3rd dimension to my 2D-flat PS brushes








there´s a little bit more info about how these were created
(+ a few *gif animated "making-of" demos of my older images)
in a separate "Demos & Step-by-step" thread of mine >>

thanks for visiting,
a.