Ognjen Sporin

Character Paintings - Process GIFs, High Res Files and Sketches

Feel free to ask any questions or share your thoughts! 

Pausing Billing for January + Some Sketches!

Hey guys! I've been kinda slacking with posting here over the last month, so I'll be pausing billing for January. I'll still most likely post a couple process GIFS/early images. Here are some WIPS and sketches in the meanwhile!

DTIYS Characters and Process

Here are some character illustrations for Draw this in your Style challenges, along with process! 

Character Illustration Process and Sketches

Here's more behind the scenes stuff :D 

Promo Illustrations Full Process

Here are a couple process GIFs for the 2 latest client illustrations I've finished for LootTavern! 

Is there anything in these paintings that you would like to see me break down in another post? Feel free to comment any thoughts or suggestions :D 

Painting Smoke Effects

Here's another little tip video, feel free to share any thoughts or questions! 

Fitting Your Character Into the Scene with Painting

Here's another little tip video, hope you guys are enjoying these - feel free to ask any questions or recommend any other vid topics based on things that you struggle with!

Saturated Silhouette Edges Tip

Another little video tip - feel free to share your thoughts or questions in the comments! 

God bless,

Ognjen 

Painting out Lines Tips

Here are a couple tips regarding painting out lines once you merge them down and start rendering the character - feel free to share your questions or thoughts in the comments! 

Color Schemes - Complementary Colors and 80/20 Rule

Hey guys, here's a little video talking about choosing and distributing colors on your characters! Feel free to let me know if you have any questions, comments or thoughts!

God bless,

Ognjen

Full Process and High Res Images for a Couple Characters + Splash Art Block-Ins

Here are some process GIFs for a few characters I finished recently, along with some block-in sketches for splash illustrations, hopefully these are somewhat interesting or insightful! 

I've had someone ask me about choosing colors and I think these characters would be a great example to explain how I think about l...

A Bunch of Study Process GIFs

Hey all, here's a bunch of process GIFs of some of the daily studies I've been doing lately! 

Character Commission Full Process

Hey all, here's more process shots of client work! 

Character Commissions - Sketches, Layered PSD Files and WIPs

Hey everyone! Here's some yet unpublished stuff I've done over the last couple weeks along with the layered PSD files! 

God bless,

Ognjen 

Helheim Inhabitant Process

Here's some process stuff! Have a bunch of work going on right now, but hopefully I'll have some more juicy content soon (if nothing then a bunch of process)

Thanks for sticking around guys,

God bless,

Ognjen 

A Buncha Sketchbook Pages

Super exclusive stuff! 

Gesture and Structure Process

A little step by step breakdown - let me know if you have any questions or thoughts in the comments! 

God bless,

Ognjen 

Finishing a Rendering

Wanted to do a little breakdown showing how I got about adding light effects and the final rendering touches to a painting - hopefully you find it useful and feel free to ask if anything needs more clarifying!

God bless,

Ognjen 

Achieving Depth in Drawing

Here's a breakdown of a couple elements that go into showing depth with just lines, as well  a practical example of that. I touched up the demon dude and attached a PSD file for that as well. Feel free to drop a comment if you have any questions or thoughts!

God bless,

Ognjen 

Commissions Work in Progress and Sketches!

Here are some process shot for two recent, yet unpublished commissions, and some unpublished sketches as well! 

Let me know if there's something you'd like me to talk about/make a tutorial on!

God Bless,

Ognjen

Hand Form and Gesture

Hi everyone! Here's another little breakdown tutorial.

You'll notice that it mainly concerns drawing the palm and the fingers, but there's really nothing on the thumb, and that's because the thumb is almost like a separate structure added to the hand, whereas the fingers are kind of a continuation of the palm. I may tac...

Sketchbook Pages!

Here are some pages straight from the super secret confidential never before seen magic sketchbook, figured it might be interesting to take a look at those! 

Tips on Drawing Animals from Reference!

Hey everyone, here are a couple tips when drawing animals (or anything else, really) that you might find useful! 

Please share whatever thoughts or questions you have in the comments,

God bless!

Ognjen

Azrael Character Design Breakdown

Hey everyone, here's a process breakdown of a character I recently painted! 

I started with an initial sketch that's in a more neutral pose to get the design down, so I don't have to pose and design at the same time:

Doing Lineart: Cross-contour and Texture

Hey everyone,

I decided to tackle a pretty broad topic - Lineart as it relates to shading/texturing! 

Also attached a couple of line drawings that I think are good examples of this principle.

Pretty happy with how I approached this and broke it down, but if anything's unclear or if you have any other re...

Tips on Rimlight

Hey everyone! I wanted to share a couple tips about painting rimlights! 

Brightness

Here's a lit sphere. 

Here's what that sphere would look like if you looked at it from below:

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Design Fundamentals - Echoing

Hey everyone!

I want to talk about a design fundamental that's relevant to any kind of design - this applies to designing creatures, characters, or whole compositions for paintings - but for the sake of explanation I'll be focusing on creatures and characters as examples.

Echoing is the repeated u...

Creature Design Styles and Inking Process

Hey everyone! I wanted to start (perhaps) a series of posts with some thoughts and tips about character design. 

I want to start off with talking generally about different kinds or types of creature design, and give some of my fave artists in those categories. K

Natural History

Wikipedi...

Mole Dragon Process, Sketches and PSD

Hey everyone, I wanted to share a lineart/drawing process, since I don't think I've done that yet. 

Here are also some the thumbnail sketches:

As you can see, they're pretty crappy and look nothing like the final, b...

Harpy Dragon Process, Sketches, Comp Breakdown and PSD

Hey everyone! Here's a bit of behind the scenes stuff about the third day of Smaugust, the prompt for it being Harpy! 

I attached some sketches, process and ref board, as well as a layered PSD file. I think I might do a post where I just share my general thoughts on creature design. As always, let me know if that's...