Another environment study painting. Painted in Hexels 2.5 Refs from Wikimedia Commons
Tag: daily painting
Odd rock formation (Env 12)
An odd rock formation I painted on my iPad using Procreate. I love the charcoal brushes
Foggy Bridge (Env 2)
I’m determined to do a enviroment study every day even if I don’t post every day. Today it is of a foggy bridge.
Painting inspired by a photo on Wikimedia Commons
Jungle Ruins (D40)
I felt better and wanted to work on a painting. I’ve been in an artistic knot for some time now and haven been happy with my work. One of the main reasons is because I stopped doing long periods of sketching and and not putting in the hours needed to improve on a regular basis.
Granted, I have been busy with a new job and working on commissions. Also trying to to learn Javascript and SEO/marking for my new job. Taking time to work on sketching and painting instead of playing games or wasting time on the net in my spare time. But an artist must not just draw what they feel comfortable with and must push further work further.
So here we are. I found a complex CC image of ruins on Flickr and did a painting based on it
Reference image by Clay Gilliand https://www.flickr.com/photos/26781577@N07/12664003153/sizes/o/
I might finish it tomarrow.
For encouragement I’ve been watching tutorial videos on Pluralsight and returned to Oatley Academy’s Magic Box
I got some good advice from a couple youtube video interviews from artists and I would like to share them with you:
The 20/80 rule – doing 20 percent of the foundationial work correctly will effect 80 percent of the outcome. you could also see it as 20 refs, studies, and blocking in, 80 clean up and detail work.
Only be as fast as you can be accurate. Take your time, if you make mistake after mistake, it will start to build into a painting full of errors. Don’t fall into the trap of ‘speed painting’.
I you don enjoy a subject, why paint it, because if you don’t like what you’re drawing, people will get that when looking at the image.
‘Straits against curves’, it’s a cool line technique to avoid a sketch from having sameness
My goals as an artist is to slow down, take note of correct proportions, and search for the ‘character’ in everything I draw and to paint with a story in mind, even if is minuscule.
Alex runs into the Art Monster(D38)
I did this fun little sketch/painting in ArtRage of my character Alex running into a monster.One of Artrage’s greatest strengths is in it’s oil paint brushes and color mixing.
Socially Awkward Dragon (D33)
Not all dragons kidnap princesses and sleep on on a bed of gold. Some dragons are glued to their computers and sleep on a bed of comic books. I was going to post this yesterday but my internet was down last night (a event that is becoming more annoyingly common)
Sarah the Scorceress (D25)
I think I came out decent for a daily painting
I referenced a stock photo by Jaggeded Eye on FA for this sketch
Noodle Sea Monster (D16)
A long noodle like serpentine sea monster. I’m very happy with this sketch as I was able to focus mainly on forms. something that line drawings make difficult at times.
Butterfly Creature (D13)
I wanted to draw a butterfly monster that looked graceful and ‘stringy’; this is the result. %100 percent out of my imagination.
Wendigo (Monster 18)
The monster I painted today is called a wendigo. It is in the myths of the Algonquian people. One version of the myth states this scary monstrosity was once a human but because he tasted the flesh of another man, he was warped and twisted into this creature and now hunts and eats the living. It has described with ‘desiccated skin’ and ‘bones popping out of the flesh’. A terrifying creature for sure. I want to give it a ‘undead’ look but not be gory.