Wednesday, April 30, 2014

Portrait Study 12

Portrait Study 12

 Another portrait study.  Trying to get some practice applying the lessons. Alfred Palmer photo as reference here.


Monday, April 28, 2014

Back to basics- Human Head 3

Back to basics- Human Head 3



Still studying.  Besides the technical details to get right  but trying to emulate Hogarths rendering is sobering.   

Saturday, April 26, 2014

Portrait Study 11

Portrait Study 11
Practicing portraits.  Still just working in value.

Thursday, April 24, 2014

Portrait Study 10

Portrait Study 10
Kept this one to just values to get into the swing of things.  The reference is here.

Tuesday, April 22, 2014

Sunday, April 20, 2014

Portrait Study 13

Portrait Study 13

Back to basics- Human Head 1





This is the start of a period of study for now focusing on faces.  I am using Burne Hogarth - Drawing the Human head as study aid and I will complete some portrait studies- moving on to traditional media.  So here is the first installment. 

Wednesday, April 16, 2014

Shipyard at the Edge

Shipyard at the Edge
 Worked on this one for a while.  Started off with a figure and then dropped in the environment.  Had some fun with the textures which I think is a first for me. Dropped some photo textures but these got painted out as the work progressed. 




Monday, April 14, 2014

Clouds Study Speedpaint





Clouds Study Speedpaint

A speedpaint cloud study.  The reference is from here.
Took about 1 hour.  The process is on livestream




Saturday, April 12, 2014

Landscape White mountains

Landscape White mountains
Having recently done a series of landscape studies this was painted to apply some of the knowledge.  Tried to limit the pallet.  some of the progress steps are below. 







Tuesday, April 8, 2014

Prehistoric superhero spitpaint

Prehistoric superhero
Spitpaint of a prehistoric superhero.  I just want to make clear that this image did not use photo textures and was completed in less than 30 minutes - hard to believe I know.

Sunday, April 6, 2014

Lightning Speedpaint Study

Lightning Study
A lightening speedpaint study.  This one took under 1 hour.  The whole thing captured on Livestream.
Brushes should not matter but in this case I made full use of a cloud brush which did a lot of the heavy lifting on this piece.  Lightening was fiddly.  Reference was from here.

Thursday, April 3, 2014

Room to be

Room to be
I spent a ridiculously long time messing around with this considering how rough it still looks.  In truth it is still some where in sketch limbo but I have ran out of steam on this one.  Will try again. 

Big Bear Game Art

  I started creating a series of promotional art for a ficticious game.  This was to practice going through the design process.  I have foun...