Thursday, January 31, 2019

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 

Thursday, January 24, 2019

Two Landscapes

Cottage Study

Forest Scene 1
Last week was a week of studies and trying out stuff some of it was more comfort zone like the cottage study and some of it was new like the forest scene.  The forest scene was an attempt to do a more stylised landscape.  I followed a Youtube tutorial   by  Andrea Gerstmann and learned a lot. I even used some features on Photoshop for the first time.   I have committed to doing a whole set of these to get some practice and get quicker.

Thursday, January 17, 2019

War Kitty

War Kitty
War kitty

Pick me
Pick me

Into 2019 - 
and what better way to kick it off than the internets faourite - kittys. 
They were done for an emote challenge run by Lirik a streamer on Twitch.  I get to experience all the new game releases vicariously from his channel and dodge the risk of spending hours playing them myself when I should be getting better at art. Anyway didn't win but it was good practice for creating emotes which I will hopefully have to do for my own channel at some point.

Tuesday, December 25, 2018

Merry Christmas

To all a good night


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

Thursday, December 20, 2018

Having a ball

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.  




Thursday, December 13, 2018

War dog

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

Wednesday, December 5, 2018

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. 


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...