Thursday, March 29, 2012

Portrait Practice 3


man face portrait

With some time available I completed another portrait.  The aim of this was to push to the piece to finish it as much as possible.  I started fooling around with textures and brushes. 


The reference was from Tim Remick photography.     A study of climbers immediately after their decent.


Tuesday, March 27, 2012

Puppy - Photoshop Study



 Photoshop study puppy digital painting animal
Poppy -Photoshop Study



My sister got another puppy.  This is Poppy a King Charles/ Shitzu cross.  I had to puppy sit.  She was only about 7 weeks old when I snapped the photo.  The study was about 8 hours.  I wanted to work on putting in hues particularly in the white areas.  after the cahllenge work it was good to return to a straight forward long study.
 Process below.  If anyone wants I can go into more detail on this. 










Monday, March 26, 2012

Bloodsports Hiatus

Following the Zelda work Dan announced there would be a postponement of Bloodsports 8.  The reason was the drop off in numbers completing.   I was not to surprised this whole study group exploded in the space of 2-3 months it expanded from what was a small steady core group to a mass of participants.  Along with that was an increase in the numbers of activities. All requiring a massive time commitment from Dan who himself was on a mission to cut it as a pro and amazingly  and Dave who's own career seems to be growing.  All done with no monitory compensation. Thanks Dan and Dave. 

Though understandable it is nonetheless a blow. For myself the Deathline Challenge has been a great way of focusing on achieving things and keeping the momentum up.  The challenges were great for me.  I had not put together any imaginative work.  At a minimum it was practice at getting a work flow sorted. At its best it pushed me to finish pieces that if I were working alone would most likely have stalled and languished.  
 I am sure that the group will go on.  for now I am taking a little breather.  Doing some gentler paced personal work.


Swamp ancient
Hunter and Pet


Gauntlet

Crimson Guardians

Miazaki Re-marketed
Hunter and

Creature


Windwaker Reworked

Sunday, March 25, 2012

Bloodsports 7 - Windwaker Reworked! Zelda Final Image

Bloodsports 7 - Windwaker Reworked! Zelda Final Image
Bloodsports 7 - Windwaker Reworked! Zelda Final Image
With the extra time I went on refining the image as much as possible.  The images that made it on to Kotaku are here. 

Saturday, March 24, 2012

Zelda Redesign -Image 2

Zelda Redesign -First submission
When it got to submission time this was as far as I had got.  Still lots and lots left to do but this was where I was at and though not thrilled with it I went ahead and submitted. By that time Dan had announced that the final deadline for submissions which would go to Kotaku was the following Wednesday so still time to work some more.   

Still Here

  A year since my last post here but that does not mean I have forgotten.  I stop by from time to time and this still remains the most compr...