Interior study 2 -mall

Interior study 2

Mall Amman

I knew the Kagan Krall image was going to require an interior so I did this study.  it is pretty miserable but I did figure out that these kinds of images need to be planned.  For me it would have been easier to work from the background forward.  Anyway I definitely need to do more of these to get some sort of work flow.  

If you want to see an example of mastery check out Isras work .  All done in Photoshop. 

13th Warrior - Photoshop Study

Having committed to Kagen Krall for the Bloodsports I knew I would need some woolly warrior vibe.  This is a still from the 13th warrior.  

13th Warrior film still - Photoshop study

Bloodsports 10

Well I will try and ace the perseverance element of the Bloodsports cos its  Bloodsports 10 and yes I am going to participate.  Of the 3 options I am going to go with  --

KAGAN KRALL- IN THE YEAR 1986!

This option is an exercise in CHARACTER JUXTAPOSITION. Popularized by many movies in the 80s, a character from a set time period is transported to a strange future world not his own. Many movies dealt with this by sending characters to the past, but for this challenge wed like you to bring some kind of barbaric warrior into the world of the late 1980s. everything in his surroundings should feel like 1986, offsetting his rugged and ancient look. you can also take any other approach to this you can come up with that works in the set guidelines. Maybe hes trying to fit in, like the trench-coated dude from highlander, or maybe hes just a shitty version of HE-MAN walking around a video game arcade. You decide!

 KEY ELEMENTS - Barbarian look or feel to the character, 1980s looking environment. clear that he DOES NOT BELONG HERE.

After Bierstadt -Awesome Horse

After Bierstadt

Awesome horse  have started another season of fun and info.  To kick it of there was a speedpainting demo by Noah Bradley.  The master study was of an Albert Bierstadt work.  It was just under 2 hours.  Above is my effort as I painted along. Noah is really fast and got a good level of finish insanely quickly.   



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Bloodsports 9 Final Image -Jude Law

'Jude Law He is the Law' Bloodsports 9

Here is the final image submitted for Bloodsports 9. Below are some of the studies it does not include the Remington copy.

I had the basic image down very quickly but then stalled and fussed with the lighting.  

Masters Study no 3 - landscape

After ? Landscape Study

I completed this landscape study following Sam Carr declaring master studies week.  A lot of peoples efforts got posted on Concept Art.   Unfortunately I could not find who the artist was for this one.  Still a master in my books.  Maybe someone could tell me?  I liked the mood set up with the light and colour. 

Bloodsports 8 results!

Dan and Dave finally got a round to judging round 8 of the Bloodsports.  My entry got an honourable mention! No crit but hey its progress of a sort!
Alex Negrea won with a standout Fat Wizard  'fatty potter'.  

The announcement

fuckinartwithmrdelicious on livestream.com. Broadcast Live Free

My entry is here. 

After Remington - Aiding A Comrade

After Remington - Aiding A Comrade

Following Sam Carrs call to do a master study  on the Crimson Daggers Thread on Concept Art .  I had a go at this Fredrick Remington.  This would be a study and I could apply whatever I could to the image I was working on for the bloodsports challenge which was western themed.  The original is found on the Google art project here.  I had the pleasure of vising this museum a few years back.  Had not seen any of Remingtons art before but it did jump out at me then.

Bloodsports 9 comps

Bloodsports 9 comps

Bloodsports 9 comps

Keeping on trucking with bloodsports 9.  I did some thumbnails.  I have to say I have only used these since starting bloodsports challenges.  This is the first time I really got something out of them - played around with the elements to find something that might work.  When I had figured out what might work i did try to put some colour in there.  As you will see the whole thing drifted from this but I had a solid starting point. 

3:10 to Yuma movie still Photoshop study

3:10 to Yuma Movie still Photoshop study

Having decided to do a western theme for the Bloodsports 9 challenge I knew I needed to do some western content study.  I did this one as it had both horses and western characters.  Both part thing I wanted to include.  This took about 4 hours.  I used just 3 different brushes. By the way this movie was a remake and one of the rare occasions when the remake was as least as good or  better than the original. 

Bloodsports 9

I am not going to drop out at this point so On we go to Bloodsports 9.  Of the options offered I am going to keep with the characters primarily to get practice drawing and rendering human form.  So a toss up between Jude Law or Talahassee James.  I went with Jude Law.  As all of the options had a western vibe about them I went with a Western Jude Law. 

Bloodsports 8 - Final Image

Bloodsports 8 Final

This is the image submitted for the Bloodsports 8 challenge. I would have liked to have rendered this out more and I think I will return and finish this to a higher standard.

Compositional studies - Bloodsports 8

Comps for Bloodsports 8

This is a summary of the work done to prepare composition.  I pretty much threw out the first couple straight away (back turned) and went with the Rembrandt composition .  I also tried to keep the same colour pallet. 

Face study-after Rembrandt

After Rembrandt - Photoshop study

I had seen this image recently and I had hit on the idea of having the Maxx Marnsden character as a bit despondent.  This image is all about that - regret and sadness.  I wanted to do the face study to capture that. 

Interior study 1 Airport interior

Airport interior -Photoshop study

This is one of the first interior studies I have done.  The reference was of from an  airport (Dubai I think).  The big challenge with these is perspective.  I don't think you can get away fudging on that.

figure study - Bloodsports 8

Suit - photoshop study

 After settling on the theme of Maxx Marnsden for the Bloodsports 8 challenge I was still mulling approaches.  Even without this I knew I would need some astronaut stuff.  While searching through images I came across some describing the suiting up process.  This is the undergarment worn.  It is interesting as you can still see the flesh colour below the suit. 

BLOODSPORT 8! Choose Your Own Adventure

Yeah Bloodsports is off and running again. 

Of the three challenges I will have a go at the Maxx Marsden- Maxx Marnsten 2099 - 'The ladies love him... But he'd rather be alone'**.   

The theme is scifi and i have not done any is this in a serious way yet so here I go!

KEY ELEMENTS - Futuristic, Scifi

Figure studies -1-watercolour

Full Figure 1

Full Figure 2

This was some figure drawing practice .  I also  wanted to have some watercolour practice.  This was the first time I tried watercolours.  I had previously tried watercolour pencils.  The paints are harder as you have to control edges.  The watercolours will take practice as you have to work light to dark.  What they would undoubtedly do is make me more disciplined as you have to have a plan before you start.   I repeated the same study the next day with a slightly different approach. The reference was from Inspirational Artworks.  There are an unbelievable number of anatomy learning tools available there. 

Portrait Practice 3

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.

Puppy - Photoshop Study

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. 

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

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. 

Zelda Redesign -Image 2

Zelda Redesign -First submission

When it got to submission time this was as far as I had got.  Still lots and lots left to do but this was where I was at and though not thrilled with it I went ahead and submitted. By that time Dan had announced that the final deadline for submissions which would go to Kotaku was the following Wednesday so still time to work some more.   

Zelda Redesign -image1

Errol 'in like' Flynn

I decided to modify the pose, put the character in water and eventually dropped the boat.  For charcters I kept very close to the depiction of charcters in Windwaker just moved them closer to relaistic.  I probably should have done more design after all that was the brief but with the time constraints and my meagre ablilities I did probably about as much as I could. 

Zelda Redesign -Study 3

after ivan_aivazovskii

ivan aivazovskii_1817_1900

To build an environment for this image I went to ivan aivazovskii.  a master of moody atmospheric ocean scenes.  I had previously made a study of one of his paintings.  I went about doing a very quick lunchtime study. This is as far as I got.    

Zelda Redesign -Study 2

Master and Commander Film Still Study

I did this study because the pose was pretty close to the comp and seafaring vibe.  The braiding was useful.  The pose was modified.  I had to keep all these studies short or I would not have time to finish the main image.  So no more than 2 hours.