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.

Speeder painter :I

Oh you know some scribbles, Its pretty early and I need to go to class, so off i go!

KNIGHT!

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

Bark bark bark.

plerb

Derp

DMUGASPEEDTACULAR was fun, been doing alot of green/orange this week. Those complementary colours.

 :I Green and orange day today. Also this drawing is lame like the lamest thing ive ever drawn, whats wrong with me.

A speedy self portrait in the morning :V Woo

Some renders of my crocodillian treasurechest. Weewww!

Masters Study, Pierre August Cot

Masters study attempt, Springtime by Pierre August Cot in 1873. Quite possibly my favourite painting, for its beauty, warm lighting and emotion. I wish I could capture the love in the girls eyes, instead, she looks dead and bland. Its just a cropped version, the full is far too stunning for me to attempt yet. If I was Pierre, I would have been happy to die after painting this.

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.

Work in progress, High to Low bake'd from Zbrush using Xnormals. Unfinished bump map and AO map.

Eh.