Value Study

Value Study

Paint Study

Study from an online tutorial..
http://muddycolors.blogspot.co.uk/2013/02/how-to-work-with-opacity.html

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Pretty disappointed with this, it took ages I was stupid to think I could handle doing it.

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Quite pleased how this came out & I'm sure I kept it under an hour this time!

Commission

These were done for a mates new website http://punkandlizard.com/

Value Study

Although I got into Imaginism Workshop I sadly can't afford to go & it has been getting me down. All I can do is try to do what they do on my own I guess.  So I asked Thierry if he could send me an image of a box they paint so here's my try at it.

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I'm not as pleased with this as I was with the last but this was more to practice texture which I find pretty hard at the mo.

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I feel better about this one, i added more atmosphere & I'm getting better at texture.

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1hr 10 mins
Looks ok but sill looks muddy & not as crisp as I'm going for.

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2013

Happy new year guys & gals.  I'm trying to get into a routine this year, getting up earlier & trying to paint each day.
Today's result is just 2 quick small paints (they did take me a while tho as i need to practice more!)

Asian Temples

I just finished these that I started a while ago but i never finished them as we were moving house.  They're basically from some very old designs I did for Kid Samurai while working at C.H.A.S.E. animation.

Paint Study Trees

 Ok this all started we me having problems with a few trees in a few concepts so I thought I'd do some practice.  The first BW one is a copy from Feng Zhu's study just to get a feel & practice a working technique.  The other BW ones were from photos of Bonsai Trees to get some interesting shapes.  I liked how most of these turned out!

This colour one was to try to get some colour going but to also study how Neil Ross is so graphical in his work I think the trunk turned out nice but I'm not so happy with the overal shape & the green.

 

Using what I learned above I thought I'd try to get that working in a straight painting from some pictures of normal trees I had.  They came out ok but I still feel they lake form.

 

This last one was probably something I wouldn't normaly paint as it has so much detail o try to get right but by studying all the techniques I felt more confident in trying.  I kind o liked how it turned out but I did have problems with the water, but overal I think it's a win as now I feel more confident about this kind of detail.

Thumbnail Paint Studies

Not too happy with the second one these have more detail in them which is bad i guess but more practice.

Thumbnail Paint Studies

I'm trying to get myself to hopefully do 2 of these a day.  I don't like these ones as much as the others I did but I guess it's a learning curve, at least I hope it is.

Thumbnail Paint Studies

I was going back through some of the course I did earlier this year & saw I'd missed an exercises that corresponds with what I've been doing lately so I gave it a go I think they turned out pretty good.

I painted these extra small, so smaller than they are shown here & it really helped to not get mixed up with detail & just concentrate on value & colour with some atmosphere.

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I've always been a fan of the concept art from the Uncharted series & the guys that do the work have their own sites, sometimes with tuts or tips on the way they work.  So this really helped with this one from Shaddy Safadi hopefully I can use the tips for my future paints!

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Different brush this week & it seemed to get done faster too, maybe I'm improving?