Standing easy

A quick painting because I haven't touched photoshop in a while. Could spend a lot more time refining but it was a quick paint over to remove some rustiness. Subject: a soldier taking a break from patrolling while keeping any eye on the tall grasses.

Oldman W.I.P

Super peeps W.I.P

Centurion - a return to form

TEXTURING

Slow going

Another

CLUB JENGA!

Another portrait of a classmate.

Finally something new!

Top image is a w.i.p of a not so practical field medic with what was suppose to be captain markings but I couldn't squeeze all four bands in. The thumbnail is of an old arctic explorer.

Colouring In

Just trying to use gradient masks to add colour. Slowly getting the hang of adding more than one into the gradient to achieve saturation.

Why did I even bother?

Closest thing Ive done to art in a couple of days in between studying for exams. First was a picture of me doing a firefighting course. The second picture, my mate asked me to photoshop a picture of his car so he could get an idea of what it would look like if he did some mods to it.

SAILER BEN

This is a drawing of a classmate done during a lecture and then photo shopped later.

Poster

One More

More Paintovers

More

Paint overs

Because I haven’t touched my wacom in too long, I went back painted over my old pictures just to see where I am at.

QUEEN W.I.P

This is a W.I.P repaint of an old painting. This is the first painting I've done in about 6 months. With that, Im pretty happy as Ive been able to pick up form where I stopped very easily and with better results in half the time. I like the character of the original sketch and will try to incorperate some of the abstract details.

Kevlar Skell

And yes I will learn my lesson one day and stop drawing on lined paper!

Pirate wip

Im not going to bother finishing this one... I started it befor my computer broke. thought I might post it up anyway. And yeah I had a phase recently of doing cleichet subject matter... its fun to do and requires very little imagination ; )

2nd time lucky?

I don't know why it stuffed up in the previous post.

More!

More Doodads

Here are some more sketches from work. I couldn’t be bothered fixing up the proportions on some of the character sketches, besides I’m doing this from my garage because my other computer is broken.

More Faces

Lately I’ve been revisiting old Photoshop files and seeing if I can improve on them. Also with this image in particular, I tried a new technique of adding colour to black and white sketches. Previously I had had limited success by using colour overlays in Photoshop. However the other day a mate at work showed me how to use gradient maps to add multi-tonal colours to images, this allowed me to get colours with nice saturated gradients which I was previous unable to achieve. For a first attempt it's not too bad; however I'm planning to use this technique a lot and hopefully will improve retrospectively. In the image I’ve added the original as a comparison. I eventually gave in and went on the net to look for references to help nut out the shapes of particularly the eyes. I find that if I look at references and other art work the quality of the final results is much greater.

Some more retro posting!

Here are some sketches I’ve done at work (it’s probably safe to say that most of my sketches are done at work). I seem to have a thing for skulls...yep!

Robin (or there abouts)

I’m quiet pleased with how this speed paint turned out. Only took about 30mins during lunch. I decided to try painting something that I wouldn’t usually think about painting. Just to freshen things up which seems to have paid off!

Sas man

Slow and steady... I haven’t had much time recently to do much sketching or painting. I’ve managed to squeeze this one in over a couple of lunches. About 3 hrs...I know, something like this should only take about an hour. Still wrestling with colours and styles,trying to find one that works for me! (an yes, wrong coloured beret).

Skull + Metalnes

More lunchtime/ end of milestone artwork (about 2hrs)

Something New

Its still a wip. Just trying to paint skin tones.

A touch of retro posting

Some sketches from a notepad I keep on my desk at work. I'm slowly improving but I’m still not happy with most of the stuff I've been coming up with. Most of my drawings suffer from proportional problems. This is mainly because I’ll try doing a finished drawing off the bat, rather then loosely sketching the proportions first. Trying to change that though!







A speed paint I did at lunch some months back.

Kerchak update

A friend at work told me about mudbox, so I thought I'd give it a go. Just imported me wip from max and did some simple definition with the pinch and scratch brush. Mudbox is much easier to use than Z-brush and a lot simpler. Going to be trying to do alot more 3d work because of mudbox. P.s. ignore his back leg... something went wrong back in max.

3D - Kerchak WIP

Been working on a 3D version Kerchak from Tarzan to fill the void at lunchtime.

Some old quick face paintings

3rd attempt (went for a loose style, then began smudging the face on the right. Turned out all right, still a few shadows that could be tweaked around the neck and eyes.)2nd attempt (Tried painting but there is something uncanny about her face)1st attempt (gave up)Fisrt Attempt

2nd

2hrs - Needs alot of tweaking!

FIRST POST - The first of many... I hope!

A quick speed painting that I was bugged to do because I was getting lazy. I didn’t plan on the design. Originally I was asked to do a lost and ruined civilization. After wrestling with that idea I just did a few squiggles in CS and ran with the result (Much like Mr. Squiggle).

At this point in time I’m trying to build on my colour schemes and brush work by using custom brushes. Overall there is about 2hrs work in this painting.

This painting is. I hope the first of many paintings and sketches to come in which I hope to improve my skills.