Revenge (WIP/process)

Here's some progress on a piece I'm currently working on. It began as a tiny thumbnail. I then enlarged the thumbnail onto a larger canvas and started painting, working from the bigger shapes to the smaller ones. Honestly, I may never finish this piece; but If i so decide to finish it, I'll make sure the final product remains readable when reduced to a thumbnail size. I'm saying this because I feel like the values are starting to get muddy, and I'm losing that strong silhouette I once had in the initial thumbnail sketch.

Late Night Work (Process)

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1. The initial sketch. This began on a recycled old painting which already had the colors I was looking for. In this stage, I was trying to capture the overall essence of the piece.
2. The line drawing. This was done over the initial sketch. You know what they say, behind every great painting, lies a great drawing.
3. The line drawing was then placed on top of the initial sketch.
4. I began to paint under the line drawing, trying to separate values, and distinguish the different items in the painting.
5. I Finally rendered on top of the line drawing to a more finished state.
final piece can be seen here

black and white Thumbs

Here are some black and white thumbs for practice. More black and white studies can be found here.

Mythology themed Sketches

First, I made a spitpaint of medusa's death. 

With a similar color scheme in mind, I later used "Medusa's Death" as a starting point (canvas) for the cyclops who went on a rampage shortly after losing his sheep.

 Later, I had an idea completely with a color scheme completely different from the previous two.

These were all 30 mins. I'm really tempted to push some these sketches further.  

Desert Series (continued)

More Desert themed spitpaints.

Desert Sketch Series

A while ago, I did a few desert themed spitpaints. Here they are. At this time, I discovered the ability to soften edges when using the lasso tool. 

Speedpaints

monkey turtle

theatre

forest

mark of the wolf

Once again, I come with more daily speedpaints. I'd like to think I've generally gotten better at composition, shaping, color, and all that good stuff, but it's much to soon to expect anything. The practicing never stops.
These were all 30 mins. 

speedpaints

piranha tank

pirate lookout 1

pirate lookout 2

purple valley

More 30 min speedpaints from recent days. Still working on shaping, composition, brush economy...

More speedpaints

one man snowman party

purple valley

daemon extraction 1

daemon extraction 2

More 30min speedpaints from the previous week. I need to improve in many areas from composition, to brush economy, and everything in between. more speedpaints can be found on my tumblr page. 

Speedpaint Blues

daemon extraction 3

death of red

red

thanks to the Daily Spitpaint group on fb, I've been drawing a lot of things that are way out of my comfort zone. It's quite challenging I tell ya. On the bright side, If I keep doing this for at least a couple years, who knows what'll happen?

More speedpaints

30 minutes as usual. 

Today's Quicksketches

flying house

flying house 2

Both took 30 mins.

Speedpaints

1 hr

30 mins

higher res images can be found here.

30 minute speedpaints

Top one took 30 mins
bottom 2 took 20.
individual images can be seen here on my tumblr page.

Mind Market Ground Level WIP

This is the same painting with 2 different color schemes. Only one color scheme will make it to the final painting. This piece is a sequel to a piece which can be found here

Cyborgs

Just a couple cyborg designs. 

Isolated Palace WIP

Here are different concepts WIPs for a palace that is meant to be isolated from the city. I'm showing these to my teacher tomorrow. The plan is to get him to act like an art director and choose one for me to continue pushing.

The Legend of Sundiata (color study)

Here is a color study for a piece which i will be finalizing traditionally. Expect the final version sometime next week. In cas you haven't noticed, I still need to add the lion's ears