Walking and Talking

Walking and Talking

This was an oil painting commission.  Actual size was 76 cm x 61 cm which is the largest canvas I have painted.
As it was such a large canvas I wanted to plan everything out so started with thumbnails.

With a thumbnail selected I went ahead and did a more detailed study with some pose options.  

With all the elements locked down the last thing was to select a pallet.

After that it was out of the forgiving digital world and into traditional media.  A line drawing was made on a gridded canvas 

After that I did a very rough application of value using acrylic paint.  

After that I moved into oils further defining the values with a dead layer .  It was developed beyond this to a full value render - just forgot to take a photo. 

After that I moved into applying colour.  This was done over 2 layers of paint followed up with washes. 

The weasel was mostly white at this point.  

I had to go in and change it to brown - very carefully - total size of figure was about 1 inch.

Magical Powers

Magical Powers

Yeah managed to finish something at last.  This was completed just before the deadline for Unreal Bjornament.  I spent most of the time doing the value work and then had to drop some colour on really quickly so I used alot of filters and adjustment layers to speed things along.  I don't think it harmed the final outcome.  I streamed some of the work on Twitch . 
I did not spend a lot of time on this as I had a lot of painting to get through.  More on that next week. 

Lots of WIPS

Unreal Bjornament WIP

Unreal Bjornament 2 is underway and I decided to take part again.  First topic Magical Powers.  
This is my WIP.  One of many WIPs in progress. 

House 2 pen and ink

House 2 pen and ink

Busy working on a lot of different projects but struggling to bring things to a finish.   Here is a second pen and ink rendering which I did mange to complete. I have some oil paintings in the works.  One is the largest painting I have attempted and I also have some digital work.  

House - Pen and ink

House - Pen and ink

I am working on a lot of things right now but this was a study I did to practice my pen and ink.  This was done with a dip pen.  The trick with these renders is to design the light and dark regions. It got to heavy in the lighter areas.   Was not so successful with this one but it was good practice.

Book cover

Book Cover - Immortality

This was a commission I did recently for a fantasy  book cover.  You can view the project here.  I have also kept working on the seascapes and lots of other stuff so a bit of juggling is required to keep everything progressing.  

Temple in Sandstorm

Temple 

Temple sandstorm

I have been working on a couple of bigger projects but I managed to play around with this.  I was practicing some basic isomorphic design and then went ahead and played with some more Photoshop animation. 

Seascape 2

Seascape 2

As promised another installment of the seascape project.  Still lot to work on here hopefully I can keep some momentum on these.  Other work going on but will do my best to keep it going.  

Seascape 1

Seascape 1

For as long as I have been painting this is my first seascape in traditional media.  Even this is a bit timid but I plan to do a few more of these.  On the other end of the spectrum I did a gif just to wind down.  I am streaming these warm down sessions on Twitch so you check out the VODs or catch me live.

HM Gif

Variations

H Matisse 1 

H Matisse 2

H Matisse 3

Its been a challenging week - some hard lessons learned.  Most of my time has been spent doing client work and that old classic freelancer experience of working and not been paid- watch out for that one.  Fortunately it is not my typical experience so far. Anyway I did get a little time to try out some simpler rendering - producing the 3 Matisse.  
I also returned to my roots doing pencil work.  It was what I started out doing and I deliberately avoided it for the past number of years.  Forcing myself to work with the unforgiving pen.  It was a bit of jolt to realise how imprecise the mark is compared to the pens.  I ended up having to take the image into Photoshop to clean it up. 

House - pencil