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. 

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...