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So after a lot of noodling and the result, that you can see below, I decided to do some studies.  The first is a portrait - sketch, following Chris Legaspi's youtube video, the second and third are something I haven't tried before. Instead of doing a seperate painting of a photo, I simply enlarged the composition and added elements to fill the empty spaces again. I did it to a level, where I was happy with the result, at the moment. I then used what I learned and applied it back into the painting. So this is where I am at currently. I will work on it more and do some studies for the clothing and anatomy, that I am not understanding. My take-away is this: doing themed studies to solve certain problems is way more helpful, than just copying some random image, because there is a schedule suggesting it, or someone else said you should do it. I hope this helps you to solve your visual problems. :) 
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After doing some client work, I wanted to get back to my study-habit. I worked on this for a couple of hours, felt like it takes way too long. And it didn't happen 'til the end, that I found out it makes sense to paint from dark to light, when adding those patches of forest on the mountain. I like how the waves turned out and doing the drawing was quite fun as well. I still need to find a good way, to portray the closer trees. Maybe using a foliage brush might help, but I am not to fond of those. They look very stiff and mechanic to me.    Today's study is to practice color and brushwork. It was a lot of fun, to carve out those shapes :)   After doing a ton of work for Ulisses that I can't show, I wanted to do something for myself again. So I joined the art-challange from the "Swatches" - facebook group. We are to paint a planeswalker - like illustration. The AD is Clint Cearley, who is a Magic The Gathering artist himself. I couldn't let this opportunity go by unused. To have him look at my work is invaluable. So here it goes. Moodboard - Design and Pose Sketches - Value Sketches - Drawing Next would be color - sketches and then rendering. Deadline is 10 of July. Onwards!     I did another spit-paint, which is a painting that is supposed to be done under 30min. It took me longer so I can't post it in the facebook-group or else I will be banned. So I just post it here. The topic was "goat bodyguard". I used 3 differente reference images for this. I tried to stay lose and just suggest at the realism. Hope you like it.  A digital figure painting, to get better at workflow and values. Sorry, but I forgot where I found the ref.  These were done to help me on commission, that I hope to be able to share soon. photostudy  Study of Ruan Jia's work Study of Jamie Jones' work  Figure practice Painting trees is hard, but I feel like I am getting better. Using hard edges seems to give a better result, than keeping things soft. Some of the studies suffer from lack of focal area though. It is an interesting balance, I have yet to understand and use better. |
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