Todays Mushrooms

Every 3D artist ever has to end up modeling some mushrooms at some point, so heres mine.
Just a simple set of 3, theyre probably a little expansive for mushrooms when you think about it, but Its not made for anything in particular. Being wasteful on the map, lots of empty space.
Flat diffuse map with marmoset render.
Was a fun little day project non the less.

Photostuday

imagination i cant draw boobs

No refs, her face is seriously derpy

Photostdudy

Its a Thursday at the national institute of time

35mins

Still life work is still enjoyable, playing with shadow and what not, I perfer using human or animal subjects more than glass balls and what not, feel Im learning more about character features than when i was studying the later. Maybe I should do a long still life. Get something highly rendered and what not.

Speed from imagination awaayyy

 Photostudayyy

30 min still life

Another one of those lladro still lifes, thought id do a quick one.

Beep

Got fed up of this pretty quick, porcelain and glazed sculptures reflect like crazy, oh well.

Reading is a pile of, okay I guess.

30 minute speedpaint

Considering Im back in Reading I thought I would do a quick speedpaint. This is a little stuffed bear that sits in my hallway, thought it was kind of fluffy, dont draw many fluffy things.

On other news, I forgot to bring my tablet mouse with me, this isnt a problem for drawing, however using 3DsMax now has a added challenge to it, it would seem.
Oh I also forgot to bring my lamp, so still lifes are going to look kind of dull in the afternoons, stupid light.

 Oh yeah, and this stuff. Dont you love it when youre university gets you to do work for them, but make it part of your university projects? ...what that doesnt happen to you? Well youre obviously missing out. (If that sounds bitter, its not, Im fine with it, but still find it amusing.)

Hand studies

Man, hands are a real bastard, can never get the tones right. Hmm, need to do more studies I think.

Just some more speedy photostudies. I did a good set of life drawing today, might upload them in a bit.

Work In progress shots

Studiess

Photo Studie

A snazzy photostudy I fount on thatslikewoah.com. Just trying to warm up in the morning, but it kind of lasted longer than was intended.

Leicester Final fuck yeaah, grey on grey action, serious grey tones, getting some sweet grey rays from the grey godess here!

Traditional paints

Some traditional paints Ive been messing around with, still needs work :I

Weekends

30 Minute photostudy

Morning Self Portrait

Long time no real words. Ive been kind of pre-occupied with silly little things and been unable to update frequently with a good amount of text.
Not much has been going on.
But ive noticed a trend in my course of blatent photocopying. Makes me want to make a tutorial on why one should do a photostudie. Or copy from a photo in general.
Theres nothing wrong with photo studies, but how you use them can be. Copying from a photo and saying " heres my final illustration, look at me im badass " is pretty lame, theres no real challenge and youre not helping yourself create new imagery, you already have the photo, what the point of painting it? No one will ever ask you to copy a photo to the T. Painting a realisitc scene from like has some promise. Youre changing a 3D scene, into a 2D plane with the illustion of 3D. Which is a great skill you learn and will make you understand the 3D world in depth. Where as the 2D photo study is flat naturaly. Not to mention, the difference between youre two eyes vision and the vision of a one eyed camera.

You should realy only do photostudies for reasons such as: How do I draw that?  Ive never drawn that before. I want to know a bit more about this. I want to test out this new technique/brush/medium.
Some people dont seem to realise that and just go " DUR THIS IS MY AMAZIN FINAL PEICE ", its pretty lame.