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A new warm-up painting and process vid for the giggle

 

 

Process Vid

I started messing about with recording my morning warm up sessions, so here is one of them for your viewing pleasure!

Messing about with video

A quick painting of a house in a field in watercolour for the themed week over at Islander Art. I thought I would mess about with the camera while I was at it.

Yoda

I finished Jedi (Grand Master of the Force and not a midichlorian in sight) Yoda

The original is for sale here : ebay

Painted with black acrylic and white gouache over black and white prismacolor pencil on stone grey stock

A portrait of Mistress Beena

I draw Beena a lot, usually she is reading and fidgets a lot which makes it very difficult, but every now and then she does something that requires her to sit still, like sewing!

She still wouldn't keep that one arm still

But even easier is to just use a photo, which I did, this one

Or these three to be more accurate

So I sketched it onto a piece of canvas (a step I forgot to record) and painted over it with some burnt umber acrylic, the burnt umber went a lovely grey when it mixed with the graphite from the sketch, but what harm

Insert paint here

I then set about the joyful task of getting the oils out and in the space of about 2... maybe 3... possibly 4 hours, I dunno, I was totally in the zone, this was the result

Its similar to make-up, but more paint is involved

This was one of those paintings that just worked for me, there are a couple small things I will alter later on, but they don't even bother me that much to be honest which is a rarity in and of itself... maybe I should do this for a living.

Zombies

A couple of groovy zombies painted in oils for funsies.
I sketched them in with a pencil that put a quick wash of acrylic burnt umber before using the oils.

House

A painting I was asked to do, the colour didnt come out great in the scan but there ya go

Practice

Been doing some practicing lately with random images and trying to paint things out of them, I just google "picture" and grab the first one I see. Today it was this pic

And painted this out of it

Tis good fun

Journal recovered

While I had the oils out and once I was finished the pretend portrait in practice of doing a proper one I decided to use what was left on the palette to paint over the writing on the cover of a new journal/sketchbook thing I got with a voucher I was given for my birthday. Its a lovely book, all bendy and lovely quality paper, it just had the manufacturers title emblazoned on the front, which I hate.

Foolishly I didnt even think about what I was going to paint, but I think it turned out ok

I think I was channeling Bob Ross on those branches

An update on the lovely ladies

I'm really trying to fully render the pirate captain tonally before I add colour, Iv never done that before, I usually lay down the basic tones and start with the colour straight away, example, the following image, some quick and light blacks and whites to balance the image and set the light source and straight into colour.

The Pirate Captain

I spent a good 9 hours on this today, my eyes may be bleeding, but I like how its going. Her face kinda blends into her hair a bit to much, but Ill sort it tomorrow.

Night night.

Colin Creevey's Last Stand

For a competition over on Deviant Art

A quick post

In Shane's house so I can post a post, more work has been done on this pic, so enjoy :) Internet should be sorted soon though.

Colins last stand

An illustration Im doing in my spare time for a competition on deviant art

Woods

Got my new imagine FX today, watched a vid on the disc that comes with it of a guy painting a big old background, so I was inspired to do this, which is good cos I really need to get much better at backgrounds. Also, the woods are my favourite place to be, I'd live in them full time if I didnt have 17 kids to support

Bane

A sketch of Bane from Batman, not based on any design, I just made it up as I went along

A Dragon's Intent

A gift

All done : )

Dragon backgrounded

Almost there

I really am

More Dragon than you even want

Just another update, almost finished the front half of the draggy dragon, I like how his top gums came out