Portrait Study 11

Portrait Study 11

Practicing portraits.  Still just working in value.

Portrait Study 10

Portrait Study 10

Kept this one to just values to get into the swing of things.  The reference is here.

Back to basics- Human Head 2

Back to basics- Human Head 2

Keeping the studies going. Started here.

Portrait Study 13

Portrait Study 13

Back to basics- Human Head 1

This is the start of a period of study for now focusing on faces.  I am using Burne Hogarth - Drawing the Human head as study aid and I will complete some portrait studies- moving on to traditional media.  So here is the first installment. 

Shipyard at the Edge

Shipyard at the Edge

 Worked on this one for a while.  Started off with a figure and then dropped in the environment.  Had some fun with the textures which I think is a first for me. Dropped some photo textures but these got painted out as the work progressed. 

Clouds Study Speedpaint

Clouds Study Speedpaint

A speedpaint cloud study.  The reference is from here.
Took about 1 hour.  The process is on livestream. 

Landscape White mountains

Landscape White mountains

Having recently done a series of landscape studies this was painted to apply some of the knowledge.  Tried to limit the pallet.  some of the progress steps are below. 

Prehistoric superhero spitpaint

Prehistoric superhero

Spitpaint of a prehistoric superhero.  I just want to make clear that this image did not use photo textures and was completed in less than 30 minutes - hard to believe I know.

Lightning Speedpaint Study

Lightning Study

A lightening speedpaint study.  This one took under 1 hour.  The whole thing captured on Livestream.
Brushes should not matter but in this case I made full use of a cloud brush which did a lot of the heavy lifting on this piece.  Lightening was fiddly.  Reference was from here.

Room to be

Room to be

I spent a ridiculously long time messing around with this considering how rough it still looks.  In truth it is still some where in sketch limbo but I have ran out of steam on this one.  Will try again. 

Interior Study 4 -Abandoned Factory

Interior Study 4- Abandoned Factory

Another interior study of an abandoned cement factory .  The reference was from here. 

Interior Study 3 - Villa HEIL

Interior Study 3  - Villa HEIL

Another round of interior studies.  This one is of a photo is by CyrnicUrbex.  
 

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.