Portrait progress and some painting

 

2-3hrs on board

Paintings

Heres a selection of paintings from this year.

 

Tree studies at a local park

I don't recommend painting on both sides of a sketchbook page, but I do it when I begin to run out of pages.

Oil portrait, 3hrs

I tried painting this onto a heavily gesso-ed panel. It makes an interesting paint brush effect.

Portraits 2023 - progression from sketch to paint

The portrait sessions I join have small breaks every 30 minutes, this is usually a good chance to take a photo of my process. I wanted to see where and when I may go wrong during a painting. The initial under drawing is the stage I need to record the most, which isn't recorded at all, as I usually finish the drawing at the first 30 minute mark. 

Using different mediums and surfaces is pretty interesting. The linin canvases I've been trying out seem to have a different feel while painting from the canvas boards. The paint seems to sit nicer and smooth out nicely. Considering the paint is just sitting on lots of gesso, the material under it shouldn't matter all that much. The linen isn't as tight as the board though, so maybe that has something to do with it.

Oil on linin

Oil on canvas board

Oil on linin

Oil on linin

Oil on canvas board

Charcoal

Gouache

Oil on canvas board

Gouache 

Karakasa card and Portraits

 

Karakasa card by BrushDip on Sketchfab

The Karakasa card, from Ragnarok Online. It was fun, I may try to remake more cards like this. 

More portraits in oil. One of the issues I seem to have is making the eyes too small, which ends up with a small looking face. But this also comes down to lack of planning and incorrect drawing.
Back to the black and white.

Puzzle, portraits and plein air

Puzzle - Sketchfab Weekly - 9 Jan'23 by BrushDip on Sketchfab

My first portrait of the new year. Used a reduced pallet without any blues. 

 

Plein air Reading town fountain 26/12/22

Plein air of Reading Abby, 24/12/22

Portrait progression of 3 hours. 

Portrait progression of 3 hours

I was hoping a while back that if I record my portrait painting in steps Ill be able to see where I go wrong and I think it helps. I've gotten into the method of background first, than working on the other elements, leaving the eyes and features untill last. I think I need to focus on the begining sketch more than I have been. Perhaps return to black and white painting for a year untill I've really got it down. 

Portraits and life drawing

 I've been attending some portraiture sessions recently. Sittings are about 3 hours, so I've been trying to focus on getting better with oil painting and focusing on tones. So I've been working in greyscale with titanium white and ivory black, which lets me focus more on tone and not get distracted by colour so much. My thought is to get my tones and my manipulation of oil right, before jumping into a full pallet. Ill probably use a limited pallet next portrait session, and see how that goes.   

Oil. 8"x10" panel. Three hours.

Oil. 8"x10" panel. Three hours.

I tape off the sides, mostly so I dont get paint over myself walking home as I dont have one of those panel carriers. But it also looks quite nice to have clean edges.

Charcoal. A3. One hour, thirty minutes.

Gouache. A4. One hour, thirty minutes.

For most of October most of my figure drawing has been one in inks. I've been using 3 water pens with different mixes of ink and water. Starting with the thinnest and finishing with thick ink. 

Ink. A3. Thirty minutes.

Some older gouache life drawing from this year. I have quite a lot of old drawings from the past 3-4 years, but I dont think they'll ever see the light of day. I should keep things current, instead of looking to far in the past.

Gouache. A4. Thirty minutes.

Gouache. A4. Twenty seven? minutes.

"Needs more green."

Quick self portrait after getting out the shower. Man, I need to plan a 3 week course :b

A speedy self portrait in the morning :V Woo

Some renders of my crocodillian treasurechest. Weewww!

More crap

Imaginaton crap

Did something like this with a similar method of painting 9 months ago, this looks better than that, but still not 9 months later good enough, well they are speedy things anyway.
Also hurr, silly 40 minute doodle, would have done more corrections and gernarly made it look good..but i ran out of time. :I Bummer. 3D time!

Working

Photostudy- 30-40 mins

MMO Character - W.I.P

MMO Character- Idea Map

Self Portrait, 30 minutes

George Cohan Statue

Ak! Over slept today, instead of 9 hours drawing, I get 6, lame! I look quite smug in this painting, hu?
And another photo study, I was only interested in the armor and the face, didnt care too much for backgrounds this time.
 Also some more work in progress for my MMO chaeracter project. Just need to render them out and theyll be fine.I also added my current idea map, Ill add comments later on, but keeping a PDF of photos I collected seems like a good way to keep my ideas together. Today is a bit of a shambles, so im going to just out some drawing time and go right into 3D. (edit) Think it was worth it, got most of the Cohan statue down, just need to go in and lower the poly count and fix up areas. Going to have to rig this to get it in the right stance, ah, it will be worth it.

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Still Life, Cactus

Photostudy

Head from imagination

Drape study

Self portrait

Father Duffy

Couple bits done today and a bit from yesterday. Dont feel like comenting much on it all today. :C Sad face.
Think I got some nice shading on that pinup though.