Skeletonpop Speedpaint

Yeah pointy skeleton! Recently Ive been thinking, might be good to try to work out the forms of creatures in different ways. Everytime I try I just go to a painting style.
And thats cool because, damned as hell I love painting.
The pelvis in 2d is a bit of a paint though. What would have been smart would be to model it, render it than paint that from the referance.
But thatd be alot of effort for a speedpaint.

Morning!

30 Minutes

This morning I felt a speed paint was in order after I had showered, so I looked through my photo reference database (now up to 3GB and going for 4!) and decided to pick a nice simple animal. Dont think its too bad, but a painting is what I really need to do more of right now, along with everything else.

1hr

I spent most of today derping about not being the artist I want to be and how I cant seem to make interesting imagery. Than I just doodled whatever.

Characterss

Junk durrr

Maybe I should start doing a charcter a day, could be a good investment. Do a bunch of small drawings than have a day of drawing a more highly polished one. I dont know.

 I should probably be more selective of what i post online. Oh well.

screenshot

Screenshot trying to explain one of my recent drawing methods. Works kind of well when doing large scale things, but you need to work delicately, but loose? If you get what I mean, More controle in a tighter space. Like a, surgen, or a cat.

Doop

40 minutes

Just a quick speedpaint today,practicing etting everything in perspective.I think it's a good idea to try and implement parts of perspective in all darwings, ofcorse nature doesnt have very much perspective, it has distance fade which makes you see distance. Overall yeah, quite a dull picture.

Shack

A nicer render of that shack I did a while back.

 Also this is my first sprite since i was, what, 13-14? Ignore the nakedness, this is just a base, the heads are detachable and so forth. Going to make a full sprite sheet with changeable heads and what not, I just need the correct limitations for this to go ahead. Also these dont take very long to make. Its strange.

Photostudy

Imagination spader speeder

Been studying spiders and stuff today, theyre cool. Didnt know their hearts are in their abdomen. But you would think so from the name...derp.

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!

KNIGHTS!

Photostudy

Quick photo study of a knight, goingto model a charcter later want to get the concepts out pretty quickly, so just soaking up info for the moment

Knight Concepts

 Okay, heres the front veiws of my Male and Fermale Knights. They still need work ofcorse, need to render in the details and finish up on the side and back. Really want to sharpen up those edges soon.
I think what ill do is make the heads seperately, as in, if I chooseto model a male Ill make a seperate male head for it away from the costume. Anywho. I need to go eat, my diets gotten pretty more. And take a walk to morrison. Yey.

Still life - Treasure chest

Photo study- Patryk's mom

Spent abotut 45 on the still life, took a break and lost track of time, but it was serposed to be quick. Argh.
Couldnt be arsed to render out the face of the photostudy. Im 15 minute over my drawing time anyway. Time forsome 3dsMax.

Keeping it loose

Girl with spraypaint

Havnt been doing enough drawing from imaginationg! How dare I?! Also woah 1:30pm, where does the morning go? Anyway, keeping things loose here, not too worried about perspective and things, just getting into the swing of drawing from my brain, so theres probably some big mistakes. Think this was about an hour or so.

Sculpty Press

Decided to quickly paint my girlfriend's sculpty press, I on the other hand, am not fond of that material, looks cool though. In other news, tonsillitis is annoying and having your wisdom teath grow in afterwards is a greater annoyance.

I dont think I've had "Five a day " in months, and whats this turning up to "72 a day? " hmm.
Hour or so still life. Mmm reduced price.

photo studies

A while back I decided not to post any photo studies i do, I do a fair amount of them every now and again. I think it was because some guy kept thinking I was cheating some how by doing it, which was hypocritical as he would trace or copy from photos, getting them very wrong aswell. My point being studying from photos can be good, although in some cases its often bad practice (if your tracing or something like that). It realy seems to be what you're using the photo for, if youre using it directly to draw over, thats kind of crappy however you can use them to study things like values and tones, aswell as shapes and other things.

These are 30-40 minute studies looking at shapes and tone.

How did I go about them? Well I gave my self a few restrictions to stop bad practice.

First, I select my image, making sure theres something interesting about the picture, I quite liked the harsh black and white. I than put the image into photoshop, select a boarder around the image and on a new layer, paint in the slection area, move the now painted box to the side and use that as my canvas. Thats the only help I give myself so that the scale is correct.

Im not alowed to use rulers or eracers. The pippet tool (eye dropper) is not alowed to be used on the photo, only your canvas, so no grabbing swatches or piching tones. And I can only use one layer. Only the brush tool is aloud to be used.

This way, I have to measure and get the tones by eye.

So its basicaly just training the eye.

Drawing in the labs today, decided to draw pokemon, as Ive currently been obsessed with Pokemon White, so I asked a few people to do a a speed paint of some pokemon. This was 50 minutes.

Coins Revisit

As I rarely ever comment on my own blog, I think I've been coming across as some kind of, strange machine, submitting work to a dead blog. So to counter this, I think I should say just a little bit about the pices I submit, or the thigns going on in daily life.

This was a revisit of one of my older pictures, basicaly I collect all my old coins, like a particular stereotype and take them down to Morrisons to exchange them for fine ales. Only problem with this is I have to get the change first. Last time, I saved up to £8.70p or something. Im not close to that yet, and Im -£1 from scavanging all the 10p coins.

Oh well, just been working on character modeling in my spare time! I have a bunch of projects in my desk draws and so many distractions. Work work.

Happy 400th Post Y'all!