Wednesday, January 30, 2013

Knights Characters 1

Chieftan character concept
Chieftain
Knight character concept
Knight


As I was finishing the characters for the Crimson Daggers mentoring I thought I would play around with some other characters.  These were just trying some different approaches to getting  some starting points down.

Tuesday, January 29, 2013

Sketches 15


Another sketch of a screen capture from Avatar. Some character stuff to follow. 

Sunday, January 27, 2013

After Arkhipov The Washer Women

After Arkhipov The Washer Women study
After Arkhipov The Washer Women

 I started this masters study last November and am finally calling it done.  It was done in oil  on 90 x 45 cm MDF gesso primed. 


 I gridded the panel and the image in photoshop then drew the figures on the panel in pencil. Everything else was done in oils.  I see some folks doing the initial blocking or values in acrylics and I think I will try that next time.  
 I blocked things in pretty quickly then put in some details. Most of the rest of the work was done in a few glazes.  The glazing was not something I had tried before to any great extent but it helped pull it together.  I have not seen the original of this and there are a few copies of this painting on the Internet.  They vary a lot in saturation and hue. In the end I worked from the highest res image I could find.  I have no idea how ArKhipov worked but I really liked the light and colour treatment.   I also liked the subject matter (not many images like this out there).  I think I may have been empathising with the main figure.  I am stuck in a not so great job at the moment and when I am there I feel like this lady looks.  





This is the eighth masters study I have done.  I have a few other Arkhipov studies in Photoshop from last year here and here.

Friday, January 25, 2013

Baby Hippo speedpaint study

baby hippo study
Baby Hippo speedpaint study

Another speedpaint study for the group on DA. A 2 hour effort for this cute little hippo.
The reference used from Drezdany-stocks.

Wednesday, January 23, 2013

Sketches 14






Some more sketches. Definitely getting some practice doing portraits with lots of lighting I would never dream up. 


Monday, January 21, 2013

The End

the end interior destroyed
The End


I used the setup shown in a previous post  here  to create this by destroying that.  I used it to have some fun fooling around with the lighting. 

Sunday, January 20, 2013

sketches 13


Two more sketches from Avatar. Trying to keep these fast 15-30 minutes  but portraits are taking about 1 hour.

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...