Home Sweet Home

Staying with the landscape work went for another applied piece.  Had some time to spent on this one.  Started off rough but I kept working on it to push it a bit further.

 

After Ivan Shishkin - Brook in Birch Forest

After Ivan Shishkin - Brook in Birch Forest

Another landscape study After Ivan Shishkin - Brook in Birch Forest.  Spent about 2 hours on this.

Idols

Idols

Tried application of some of the themes from the previous set of landscape studies.  Started out as a doodle. Easter must have been on my mind.

Landscape Study 8 mountains

Landscape Study 8 mountains

The last in this series of studies. About half an hour- following the big brush philosophy. The reference for this is here. After these studies time to apply.  To be continued...

Landscape Study 7 mountains

Landscape Study 7 mountains

Second in a series of landscape sketches. As before Trying to work with large brushes.  About 30 minutes.  The reference is here.

Landscape Study 6 mountains

Landscape Study 6 mountains

 Embarked on a series of landscape studies.  The main aim of these was to practice getting down as much information with the biggest brushes possible.  The photo source is here.

Summer dance-Speedpaint

Did a speedpaint from the DA group.  Did it over 3 sessions but don't think I spent more than the 2 hour allowance.  The stock was from Random-Acts-Stock.  
Spent a while getting the pose down.  Offline I have started working on anatomy so I will probably focus on that for a while using Loomis and Bridgeman. 

robo enhanced antihero -Spitpaint

robo enhanced antihero

It is a spitpaint.

Spearman

Spearman

Trying to get some more practice rendering and refining.  Being somewhat short on available time is not helping progress with this.  I was working in one to two  hour bursts so being looking at this dude for about 2 weeks.

Skirmish

Skirmish

Skirmish

Some more sketching  I did last week.  Might develop this further.

Ships sketches

Ships sketches

Was ill early last week and in my fevered state did some doodles.

Two riders

Two riders

As promised after the last study I went ahead and tried to apply some of what I learned.  Changed up the lighting big time.  Anyway pushed everything as far as I could.  Sketched it out in grey scale then dropped in the colour.  You can see it drifted somewhat from the early sketch.

Sketches 32

Sketches 32

Time flies. Last installment was back in November, last year. 

Skull Still Life Study

Skull Still Life Study

A study from life.  About 2 hours.  The skull is not an anatomically correct model.  It was a cheap prop I picked up at Halloween but good enough for the major forms.  Light was courtesy of my monitor.

After Cesare Auguste Detti-To the joust

After Cesare Auguste Detti- To the joust

This is a detail of the larger image To the joust  by Cesare Auguste Detti. I wanted to do this to force myself to work on the details.  Done a lot of smaller shorter works so a good change of pace. Now I am committed to doing a piece to apply some of what I picked up by doing this. Most of the action is captured on Livestream. 

Pink hair and cool goggles - Spitpaint

Pink hair and cool goggles - Spitpaint

Another spitpaint.  Probably finish a masters study tomorrow.  Check out livestream for progress on it. 

Black Pegasus -Pirate Kings vessel-Spitpaints

Black Pegasus

Pirate Kings vessel

Some more spitpaints.

Scouting

Scouting

Being working on this for a while. Seems like months but probably feels that way as I was chipping away at it for about 2 hours a day. Some things were more successful than others but will take what I have learned and move on.

The progress shots show how much this evolved.  

Robots in Mist - Spitpaint

Robots in Mist Spitpaint

Still working on a more substantial piece.  In the meantime another Spitpaint.  Hanging on in there. 

Black Skull Spitpaint

Black Skull Spitpaint

Not much time for fun this week hence the spitpaints.  This one is a buffalo skull - 30 minutes.  Great set of references from skullsunlimited.com.  Haven't bought any yet!

Jumping Frog-Spitpaint

Jumping Frog

Hmm love that environment.

Trash by the road- Spitpaint

Trash by the road- Spitpaint

30 minute  sketch.

One That Got Away

One That Got Away

Worked on this the past few days. It sprung from the previous piece of work where I took a detail from it. 

The next  thing was the pose then the rest followed.  The bird took a ridiculous amount of time- a couple of redesigns.

Winter girl Speedpaint

Winter girl

 A 2 hour speedpaint.  Reference from zeldyn-stock on DA.  Lots going on in this reference. 

Bad Day for Tony

Bad Day for Tony

This image came from a portion of my last character study. 

Worked on this for a while and it went through a few revisions. Seemed to have gained some things and lost some in the revisions.

Hungry Monster- spitpaint

Hungry Monster- spitpaint

Another spitpaint.

Landscape after Konstantin Kryzhitsky- pt2

Landscape after Konstantin Kryzhitsky- pt2

Started this masters copy a while back during Christmas break - earlier post .  This is the progress.  I layed on all the background detail and painted in all  the foreground major details.  This was after about 4-5 hours work.  At this point the difficulties of painting the textures particularly the grass is becoming apparent- built using lots of layers it seems.  There is a lot of subtlety in the colour shifts in the original. The progress to this point was captured on livestream.

Russian Soldier Spitpaint

Russian Soldier Spitpaint

Working on stuff but in the meantime I give you - Russian soldier, a spitpaint.

City in the Stars

City in the Stars

Time to do something a bit more detailed and involved.  This was definitely something to  practice some rendering.  It started out quite rough so it took a lot of discipline for me to stick with it.  Could have refined further perhaps but I will take what I have learned and apply to something else.

Snowy Landscape Speedpaint

Snowy Landscape Speedpaint

A 2 hour study for the speedpaint group on DA.  The reference was by Ravenslane.

Mechanical Medic Spitpaint

Mechanical Medic Spitpaint