Struggling with Color Comps and more doodles

Apparently I forgot how in ChristOatley Academy's Centrifuge message boards, you can only upload pictures that are in the internet, so that means I have to upload stuff here or somewhere else (I guess that's one thing I can give deviantart kudos for. You can do that in journal entries).
But for now, here's a more recent revision of my first color comp.

 I'm still frustrated, so I decided that doing a new comp would help. Except that brought up a question, about the steps taken in the tutorial video. After putting in the atmospheric ground color, Chris selected the overall figure and blocked it in with this gradient color. Here was the first few steps of the first comp.

 And the new one, but with a more bright, pinkish atmospheric lighting. Except, I don't know if I'm supposed to put in the darkest value and then the light source. spills on the left side. Should I go darker for the darkest areas? Or should I add some more darkness to the atmospheric ground color?

Anyway, some sketches that I've forgotten to show.
This was the interior of an Arby's that I walked in. It was really nice, too bad I didn't get a picture with it.

 These sketches and doodles are thumbnails for a drawing I want to do before New Year's starts.

 And as well as a quick comic for "Beeswax", which sums up this year.

 I am considering a plan to make a story portfolio and a character design portfolio. I decided to work out some basic character designs, to explore some possibilities.

Anyway, since not many people bother checking this blog, and are only glued to my tumblr and my deviantart, I don't think I'll be too concerned with theft. I check my blog, and I see no comments whatsoever. Heck, I wonder if putting spoiler content for my stories would even matter ...nevermind, that's a horrible idea.

Merry Christmas and stuff I'm working on for next year

First off, a little something for Christmas and the holidays. Plus, I was long overdue for a little piece for Eruti. Sadly, most of the stuff I make is in sketches.

 As for the lack of activity, well it was the Christmas Rush, and it was insane these 2 weeks before Christmas at the UPS.
But yes, I have been thinking of what I plan on doing for next year, and now. I'll probably start working on strips for "Beeswax", a comic about my life after college and my first year of school. Except everyone in that world is a bee.
I've been working on some sketches for Creon and Hinder as well.

 And yes, I have a pretty generaldirection of where I want to go with Eruti, though I'm still writing bits out (again). These are thumbnails for the first chapter.

 I couldn't focus on finishing thumbnails and ended up making doodles about Creon in general (hint: She likes to play secret Santa).

Well I hope everyone is having a Merry Christmas and happy holidays. Peace everyone.

First Comp Homework and more doodles

At long last, I have finished 1 comp for the "Fancy Animals" project.
But I do intend to make 1 or more comps, because I'm not happy with this one, and hopefully I'll get good feedback on doing better.

 And for some doodles that I did during my free time at work. When it's super slow, I just get a piece of paper and doodle, or read. In this case, I did some stuff for Creon. Mainly outfits that she wears, especially during different parts of the story, which I still have to flesh out.

 The next two below are ideas for business cards for myself. I want to have a card ready so I can give people something, which gives a more professional look. I don't like to say "eh, I just do things as a hobby, here's my email, that's it." My deviantart is definitely not professional.

 Some more doodles for Creon and Hinder. I wanted a feel for these two practicing their powers. I didn't want Hinder to come off as a heartless, emo wanderer. I had to simply tone down and just get the ideas out, rather than getting a perfect drawing.

And now, a watercolor tribute to the nutcracker and "Cats Don't Dance."

I'm going to tone down the amount of fanart here, and put that stuff on my tumblr instead,