Merry Christmas

To all a good night

Thanks to all those who have followed along this year.  Wishing all a Merry Christmas.   

Having a ball

Having a ball

Another large piece I have been chipping away at for the past week.  I wanted to do an interior with some female figures so I thought I would hit a few requirements in one go.  I spent a while setting up the perspective and then the multiple figures took some time to design and render.  I was glad to get it to some sort of finish.  It was good to get practice at a more intricate piece.  I have one more to go for this year.  

War dog

War Dog

Finally manged to get this to some sort of finish.  The initial work on this went very quickly but other work took priority and I could only do bits and pieces of it until last week.  It would have been interesting to see how quickly I could have finished it.  The initial sketch did not require much modification.  I am finishing off one last large image you can see the progress over on Twitch. 

initial sketch

Landscape for

Landscape for 

This was a sample landscape I did for a project. It was rejected. For me it was the first time I merged gouache with digital painting.  They did not want a digital look but my gouache skills are not up to knocking this out to high standard so I did half and half.  It was not totally successful but there are passages that had some interesting effects.  I will practice this a bit more to chase those effects.  
I am still working on a larger digital piece and streaming on Twitch .  Hope to finish it this week. 

Cutie

Cutie

I have been doing a few different projects - the big ones for my portfolio and some commission work so I chopping and changing between diverse projects. I have the preliminary work for an oil painting.  I worked in stages including a dead layer.   For a larger portfolio piece which is an interior scene I did some quick value studies.  


I started that work and have started streaming on Twitch.  I am currently streaming between 9 pm and 11 pm  GMT weekdays.  Come by and say hello.

 Cutie was a break from all the serious stuff. 

oil painting lines

oil painting umber

oil painting dead layer

interior study 6

Interior study 7

interior study 8

interior study 9 

interior study 10

Moving on

Moving on 

Been messing around with this image for quite a while.  I am going to accept where it is at and move on to something else.  The good is it was a challenge and I pushed it to learn as much as possible but I am into diminishing returns.  I have another larger piece that is in a similar phase so I am finishing it and moving on to another large image.  All are to update my portfolio.  

Keg carrier

War dog sketch

 Decided to start another portfolio piece.  This is the sketch which I put together quite quickly.  I have kept working on it and am in final phase with this but I have been busy an have not had a chance to complete. 
Still doing the 30 minute sketches though they too have not had they attention they should have of late.  

Keg carrier 

Big gun

Joints