For hire

For hire

 

Did this to practice some portraits.  Had not done any human figures in a while.  I have thought about switching over  to do some anatomy study.  Used to do it during work lunch times but since that time has disappeared I will have to make some time to get better. 

Landscape cave speedpaint

Landscape cave speedpaint

 A speedpaint study from the DA group, about 2 hours.    Reference is from Charfade who also is one of the founders of the DA speedpaint group.

Restaurant

Restaurant

Yip its a restaurant and I definitely knew that was what I was going for from the start. 

Spaceship 1

Spaceship1

The Mig study was in response to this effort.  Started out as the value study below but I started carving into it and ended up with the image above.  

MiG-31 study

Mikoyan MiG-31

Practice, practice, practice.  Did this one at the weekend the reference is here.  It is a Mikoyan MiG-31.  I am afraid my time available for doing this king of stuff is going to be in short supply in the next few months.  Big project in the offing at work and I don't think I am going to avoid massive overtime. I really would prefer to spend the time getting better but I will take the hit and keep doing as much as I can and make up for lost time afterwards. 

Urban Study 2

Urban  Study 2

Jasper in Canada on what I remember was a very wet day.  We were reliably informed that the surrounding mountains were spectacular bit we saw ne'er a one that day. 

Landscape mountains 2

Landscape mountains 2

As promised here is the companion landscape to the previous post. Based on a mountain I see from my house but change up some. 

Landscape mountains 1

Landscape mountains

Tried out applying the earlier  landscape study.  I did two of these at the same time (other to follow).  Spent  about 2 hours or so.

Urban study 1

Urban study 1

Trying out some building studies. The building is in Bucharest.  I took some shots when I was there this time last year.  Having changed job this year I wont get a chance to get away this year.  I will have to content myself with  this. 

Dream

Dream

Playing around with a brush I made to put windows in buildings.  Decided to work on the image and resolve it a little bit .

Canada landscape study 5

Canada landscape study 5

A landscape study just to try out getting useful marks down quickly.  This took about 75 minutes.  I livestreamed the work .  Last Canada landscape is here (2011!) .

Outrun

Outrun

 Another doodle that I kept on working on.  don't think I would have been brave enough to go for this out right.  really tough getting horses to approach recognisable. Will do a study next to recover. 

Sketches and studies

Sketches and studies

When I am doing the longer pieces I break it up doing some sketches and doodles and short studies .  I know I should be doing more of this but day work makes it really difficult to just do some loose stuff and I have wanted to do more finished work.  May try and flip those priorities  for a while. 

Sketches 28

Sketches 28

Got a chance to do a few more screen caps.

Hunting the cave bear

Hunting the cave bear

For a change I started this image out with a line drawing working out most of the details. Then value.  The image below is where I was at before I went in with colour.    I changed some of the poses a bit later on.

Expressions study

Expressions study

This was the next lesson of Suzanne Helmighs  following on from the skulls. To be honest I would need a lot more practice at this but I can see how this would be really useful.  

Goldfish speedpaint

Goldfish speedpaint

A second glass study.  The reference is from LemnosExplorer  on DA.
Just have to say these bowls are waaay too small for these fish.   Hope they went to a better home. 

By the ruin

By the ruin

Tried something different for this one by setting down the value and then going in with colour.

Glass Speedpaint 1

Glass Speedpaint 1

Glass the topic for the speedpaint group this month.  Here is the first offering.  Stock courtesy of Tanyuuu  on DA. 

Stream Painting

Stream Painting

Have not done an oil painting in a long while.  This was in response to a deep pang of guilt.  I bought a pochade last year.  It was the worst Summer in years with no chance of getting out and trying it out.  This year the best Summer in years and the weather coincided with me moving house and starting new job. This was a photo I took just before I moved. 

Powering On

Powering On

This guy was a triumph of patience.  Doodled a bit, got about half way and just struggled to figure out how to continue.  Really tempted to stop and move on to something else, but as ever, if I feel I am struggling there is something to be learned so I kept with it. 

Skull Study 4

Skull Study 4

Continuing the skull studies. 

Sketches 27

Sketches 27.  Hmm change in colour palette. 

An Offering

An Offering

This one  started out as a quick doodle and looked interesting enough to develop further.  Still like that initial sketch.

Skull Study 3

Skull Study 3

The last of the series of skull studies.  Did this one at the weekend so I took some more time rendering it.  Spending time doing these studies also means you have time to think on the subject matter.  This also reminded me of a video I saw recently of  sculpting the aging process.

Skull Study 2

Skull Study 2

Following on from the first study this is a 3/4 view.  This one was a lot quicker than the first. 

Skull Study 1

Skull Study 1

There were a few mentoring classes run on crimson Daggers a while back.  I did not try any of them at the time.  The resources are all still available.  I thought I would try and follow the mentoring class run by Suzanne Helmigh.  I did watch some of the classes live and it seemed like a well structure program so why not.  The first class required some skull studies.  Here is the first. 

Green Door Study

Green Door

 A study of a shed door to practice textures. 

Pursuit

Pursuit

Started this trying out some different brushes and the custom shape tool and it went from there.

Dogs Sketch 3

Dogs Sketch 3

Haven't done a sketch of these guys in a while.  Being dog sitting for the past few weeks.  Should really try sketching them in motion next.

Casting Room

Casting Room

Started out as a doodle and I kept going with it to get some practice with the rendering.  Composition could have been better. 

Soldiers Study

Soldiers Study

Trying out some different approaches. About 3 hours.  The reference was from Wikimedia.