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Some quick gestures
I really need to stay on these to keep loose.
Two more speedies
I’m not so sure about that zombie fighter’s lame background :/ I’m still a noob at buildings…for now.
Screen Shots
Very simply enough, i start with a gradient background. After that I grab a dark color that is close to that color range, but just darker enough to show up in the gradients darkest areas. I sketch in a real loose sketch that gets her down just good enough to start painting on. I do this much like how I take real sketches to finish, eraser and pencil. I don’t use any other color. I render it out as much as I can on another layer and then start adding a background. Then it is time to throw some temperature colors in. Sometimes adding lights and darks here and there. I work on all 3 layers at once during this stage. Once things look good enough, I flatten the skin layer and the shadow layer and start fixing the painting up, tightening things here and there. Finally it starts to look good enough to finish. Add in details here and there, closer tightening and refined contrast. Done! Sorta :/
By using this method where you have a black and white render, you can then paint under neath that with all the colors you need, as messy as you want. Then move to the sketch layer and adjust the colors with preserve transparency on. That will keep the sketch intact while you change the colors on it. It can sometimes have pretty neat effects if you add blobs of color under it and change the layer settings. Like the picture above. I think it looks more real that way then the actual painting :/
C9 Weekly: Girls Kissing
I usually never have time for weekly, and really, this week…I don’t! But I made time by staying up late to finish this for the weekly.
BW Photo Study
Just another speedy study
Sargent Study
I’ve always wanted to do a master study. I started today with a speed paint of a John Singer Sargent painting. I just love this one, and while studying it, I fell in love with it even more.
Picking up old sketches
Here is an old sketch I had laying around that I never finished.
I might add more detail later, if people are interested in it.
Cowboys!
These are from the movie 3:10 to Yuma, which is a great movie and you should all check it out. They are reference studies for another project I’m taking on. I should have more original content soon.
Without Ref
After sketching lots of sketches from reference, I thought it was time to test myself and see what i’ve learned. I’m proud with what i’ve come up with. I still have a lot to learn. Lighting is one tuff aspect to master. The first two are sketches of zepherzeil. The last one is a phone sketch.
New paints
Here is an experiment that was revealed to me in a dream. I tried it out and it seems to work nicely. I was very lazy with it actually, but I understand how to do it. I think it would be better understood in another painting.
Here is another approach. Almost like the one above but different in it’s methods of finishing. This is also going to be finished fully. You can see some parts already cleaned up. The background is not even the focus.