Saturday, January 7, 2012

ARKHIPOV Abram, Ice passed - Masters Study 1




After Arkhipov - The Ice Has Passed Photoshop Study
 This is a Photoshop study I completed of a Arkhipovs Ice passed.

 


Arkhipov -The Ice Has Passed  (1895)
The  reference was downloaded from the site 200 Russian Painters

I wanted to do a study to improve my brushwork and have a painterly look.  I used just 2 brushes in this.  I had originally planned to do it all with one.  All the figures were completed with one and when it came to the landscape I reverted to a hard round brush for some areas.  It took me about 8 hours over 3 sessions. 
 I chose this painting as it has great light. I don't get to see very much of this kind of light where I live and especially this time of year.
I really enjoyed doing this and I will definitely return to do some more. 
 

Thursday, January 5, 2012

Swamp Elder - Final

Following on from the previous post  I went away and reworked the swamp elder piece. 






I addressed the creature by designing a alligator / human.  I probably should have pushed this design further but anyway.  I put in some light to add some focus.  I added some eggs just to give it more narrative.  So that's it.  That's all I am going to do on this one.  Lessons learned, will move on to the next challenge 'Gauntlet'.  No doubht will learn a whole lot of lessons there too...

Wednesday, January 4, 2012

Swamp Elder Submission

alligator in swamp
Swamp Elder


After completing the studies I went ahead and put this image together.  I went for a pool with some ruins and misty background.  As for the elder it was a total cop out.  I did not go further and design a beast of any description but simply rendered out an alligator of sorts. About 6-8 hours work.  
This is what I submitted for the challenge

When I looked at it again in the cold light of day I thought not a great result and I should have pushed further.  Sooooo I took this image and reworked it some more. 

Swamp Elder Studies part 2



To get some more studies in for the swamp elder challenge I did a study of a portion of a painting by Frederic Edwin Church titled Heart of the Andes. 


Heart of the Andes  Photoshop study

It was recently  profiled on Charley Parkers Lines and Colours blog.  I would have liked to have worked more on this but time was moving on.  

I had some photos from a swamp I took a tour in, which was outside New Orleans and I did a quick study from one. This I should have definitely spent more time on.


Swamp study

Anyway time had run out and I need to forge ahead and put the image together.  The final part was a very quick set of alligator studies. 


Alligators Study


Time was up.  Had to get an image together. 

Sunday, January 1, 2012

Alligator texture study- Swamp Elder

Alligator texture study
I decided to go ahead and try the Crimson Daggers Swamp Elder Challenge.  So I did started putting together some studies that should help.  The studies were what I could complete before the Christmas holidays.  This was a texture study in Photoshop. 

3D model of an ebike

  Its been a while.   I have been working and practicing.  The latest personal project was modelling this ebike.  I wanted to do a more comp...