Digital Painting - alter ego character created/ Alien Design Sheets

After looking at an online tutorial on how to digitally paint, it seemed less daunting. However in the tutorial the person drew on Photo-shop which to me is very difficult and i don't not have access to a tablet. So, i decided to draw an illustration from looking at a Sugar pill cosmetic image and incorporating the cigarette which features in Brian Viveros work. I scanned it into photoshop and started by working on the lips by painting then and using the dodge tool to add highlights.

After a while i got to this stage where i used a combination of paint, the burn tool to add shadows, the dodge tool to add highlights and the grass effect to get the furry looking bits for the mask and cigarette.

I was not pleased with the hair so i decided to change the effect of the brush to a linear dodge and difference which created easier hair texture.

I then decided to add some dar shadow to the hair to make it look less cartoony.

I asked some of my peers on which looked better the one with cartoony hair or this one and different people liked either one...so i shall print out both version as final pieces.

Alien Design Sheets.

A few days ago I had decided to create an abstract alien based around a lava lamp( rather the floaty things in the lava lamp)....However some of my peers and friends said it looked nothing like an alien... meaning it did not have what we know as an alien something with big eyes and antenas...So i decided to create alien looking things from looking at an animal skull in a Drawing lesson...and i drew parts of it whilst changing its form to look alien like.

My drawing teacher thought it looked squid-like so i looked at some images of some squid and other sea creatures and began creating an alien out of what I looked at.

I first looked at a squid which i altered slightly to look more like an alien head, then looked at a jelly fish because i liked the way it reflected light...i then created an alien face which looks like the squid which has the blue reflective head of the jelly fish and the red colour of the alien i made above.

I still have some annotation to do to this... but i think i will look further into some more alien design sheets...I have not yet decided what i actually want the alien to look like.

The alien with horn looking antennas was made with conte, charcoal and chalk pastel.

The Squids are made from conte, charcoal, chalk pastel and oil pastel.

The jellyfish is made from blue ink and white ink....i really liked the way the white ink created a luminous outline which a jelly fish has.