Trekking 2

Trekking 2

Could not resist adding a little bit of motion to this.  It was my first time working with the animation part of Photoshop.  Its a bit clumsy but was just checking out what was possible.  The final still image is here.

Trekking

Trekking

I took some time with this. It started off as a quick painting then developed. The mule/goat I completed very quickly then struggled with the guy for a while. This was fun to do and I did spend some time fooling around with stuff. My favorite bit is still that goat with attitude. 

Foot speedpaint

Foot speedpaint

 
A speedpaint of a foot of  2 hours effort.  Most of that was tickling those toes.  I don't think i nailed it but it was a sole effort.  The stock was from hannah-boaden  here

Sketches 19

Still doing them. Some more Avatar sketches.

Study of The Gramaphone

Study of The Gramaphone

I did this photograph study to help with an image I am working on.  Did not labour to make an exact copy. The photo is from the library of congress collection which has some amazing and sometimes unexpected collections of images. Do you think this guy had heard recorded music before?

Giant Fight

Giant Fight

This started out as a doodle and went further than planned.  It took a while as the elements got juggled around.  It definitely drifted from that initial sketch and took quite a long time to finish. 

Sketches 18

Some more Avatar screenshots. Its not like I don't have any other movies I just figure that the shots would have been more heavily planned than some other movies so its worth doing this exercise with this one.  See how long I last -only 15 minutes in .  Some of these were quicker to do than varying between maybe 30 minutes  to 1 hour.  Faces are still hard for me.  

One of 6 Mechs

One of 6 mechs

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This started out as a round in the conceptworld sketchathon. Highly recommend them but I can usually only join for part of it and even then only every second Sunday.  
The challenge was 6 mech designs in 30 minutes.  I pooped the 6 designs out. They were definitely not battle mechs. Looked more like maintenance bots.    I decided to push one of them a little further as he looked like he had a bit of character about him. 

Garden Painting

Garden painting Final

I posted some work on this earlier.  I revisited it over the holidays and finished it.  The main change was to try and add other colours in to kill the vast green expanse.  In defence this is Ireland and during the Summer it is really green. 

Garden Oil Painting

Hand speedpaint Hand

Hand Speedpaint

Another  2 hour speedpaint for the DA speedpaint group.  I pushed the colours beyond those in the reference.  The reference was from from Jay-B-Rich.