Fruitstudy 1,5 h :)

foto by Flowerstock
http://flowerpowerstock.deviantart.com/gallery/1819201?offset=0

A quick sketch to warm up ca 30 min.

Rotkärtchen: the big bad wolf

Lineart by Lena Kuschke
Colors by me

These are the studies I did for the card art. 2 color- and fur-studies and a lighting study of a side-lighting from James Gurneys book "Color and Light"

This will be the next card: Orza Reckenhauer.

To be honest I had some trouble with the lighting in the Rotkärtchen - piece, so this time wanted to use a different approach. First I put in all the colors I wanted in the piece on seperate layers.

Then I used the Gradient tool with a single color in the circular mode (example of the effect).

With that I dropped in 2 colored lightsources from the sides and another one from the middle like in this image:

This is how I arranged my layers:

This is the result, after masking out planes where the different lights don't fall on.

The next steps will be adding textures and rendering out the forms more. 

I hope this made sense and maybe even helped somebody. :)

Hey everybody,

I think I found a new way to do studies more efficiently. Where I before put the reference image next to mine so that I could see it while doing the study, I tried this time to hide it and only take a look at it to know what to draw next. In effect I zoomed close to my picture and when I didn't know what or how to paint something, I panned the camera to the reference, took a look, tried to remember the thing and went back to my painting. That way I was forced to mentally say stuff like: "the wrinkles on the frogs shoulders are bigger than on his stomach".

Also it helped me to make it my version. I looked at a special spot, had an idea how to paint that and tried it. After a while I went back and compared. The whole time in between I didn't have the reference image telling me that I am doing good or bad. I just did what I thought was working and compared the result.

Maybe it is something worth trying for you too?

If you do I would love to hear if it did something new for you.

roughly 2 h for the toad.

2 30 min Rembrandt Color Studies. Left the original --- middel from reference, with the above mentioned technique --- right from imagination. I am not too happy with the result, it is too saturated, but I learned a lot from it.

And a very stylized portrait of Brönsted, a famous chemist.

It is Michelangelo's 450th day of death, so I thought it only right to do a quick study of his David.

The new character card.

Leo Kahn is also a goaly with the ability to enhance the moral by roaring.
As usual: Lines by Lena Kuschke, painting by me.

Painting so much long fur is very meditative.

Cheers,
Flo

Left: Study from photo and some stuff... Right: from memory

Cheers,
Flo

a lion study for the next character card

Finish of the study with a copy from memory

Hey everybody,

I did a armor study and then redid it after a day from memory. this is what came out. I thought the design was a bit boring plus I couldn't remember a lot of it, so I decided to add some interest.

the study from ref is saved on another pc, so I can't show it.

Here's the original: http://www.holidaycheck.de/data/urlaubsb...057265.jpg

Cheers,
Flo