I recently made a few different variations of a painting that I created in Corel Painter last year. The variations are more conceptual rather than finished product. Primarily they were created using the channel mixer tool in combination with adjusting the HSB of various selections. 

Here is the original

Here are the variations

...started out with the idea for something along the lines of a jellyfish, and evolved into something a bit more squid like...so although the execution of the idea wasn't so successful, it was still fun engineering the design.

the 2 other sketches based off the same silhouette as the Mustache whale. Obviously these are a little rougher

Something I've been painting on and off over the past week. Just another silhouette + color study. Have a couple other rejects based on this same silhouette that maybe I'll post later...maybe.

All the other fish laughed at her mustache, but she'd show them. "Just wait till they see my sweet helmet." she mused.

most recent work based on a simple silhouette.

Sketcharoo

haven't been painting as much and been posting even less. worked on this on/off over the past week or two. Didn't have any real direction...was using this more for fun and to get back into the swing of things.

more stabby stabs. still having fun with these, and learning to be more liberal with my colors. Still, i couldn't make a proper decision with the skull like thing on the right most sword, which definitely shows...something about the colors just doesn't work... :/ 

more blades. not so much to scale

...the good and the bad. I've been working, but not posting. Rendering, and in some cases redesigning the swords. There's a lot more to show than this, but this is all I want to show for now.

Refined and painted one of the swords. Initial sketch --> Refined Sketch --> Flats --> Paints --> Final. I plan to do more of these. Keeping the designs somewhat straightforward and placing more emphasis on the painting/rendering in order to produce a more finished product. 

Been working, but not posting, so this is a bit of a dump.

Fish+Ships 3/4 concept. Took this one further than the last, which I still hope to revisit.

After painting and repainting, I finally ended up with a result I'm fairly pleased with. Doesn't match the thumbnail exactly, but I think the translation is still passable.

On a side note, I couldn't attach an image as usual, and had to copy/paste a url of the artwork as it exist on another site (artstation). weird

Colored the trees from previous concepts. 

Still not entirely satisfied, but I'm tired of looking at it. Learned a thing or two about color more than anything. May or may not return to it. Still, I think it's a pretty good representation of where I currently stand as a digital artist, and that I'm able to take a quick sketch to full color concept...even if the concept did change a little in the process.

some environment sketches between last night and tonight.

random steampunk portraits...although could use more steampunk emphasis as it's not quite clear that's what it's supposed to be. Still, it was fun and didn't take too long

more sci-fi...this time a piece of an environment. nothing special

some sci-fi console sketches. trying to make my presentation more clean and professional