Saturday, February 6, 2010

anatomy study - skull

Spent an hour each morning working on a skull sculpt.
Here is the breakdown...

Friday, February 5, 2010

Lifedrawing Jan

Missed the first half of the last lifedrawing session- apparently good because there was problems with the heat. I prefer the "longer" poses anyway. 10 and 20 min drawings.

Monday, February 1, 2010

GA Post Apoc-Mutants

GameArtisans.org sculpting mini contest.

Sunday, January 24, 2010

Chow 186 part 2


There was a one week extension on this deadline, so I took a couple more hours and cleaned it up to look more like a painting than a colored drawing.

Sunday, January 17, 2010

Chow 186

CHaracter Of the Week at conceptart.org.
An alien archeologist comes to earth after we've wiped ourselves out. These are one week little challanges and I had a lot of fun doing it. Hopefully, I will keep it up throughout the coming year.

I built the guy in max quickly to get the turnarounds and the pose. Helped, but not sure if it helped with the speed.

Thursday, January 7, 2010

Vermeer Video

I recorded the painting of the Vermeer study I did.




Watch it larger on Vimeo

Thursday, December 31, 2009

Done and Done

I promised myself I'd finish this master study before the end of the year.
Guess this counts.
Had a bit of a f-up on the final "save as" so I only have the small version left.

Tuesday, December 22, 2009

Lifedrawing 12-19-09

Blah.
Model had great poses, and I enjoyed drawing - the results just weren't very good.
So much for the last life drawing of the year.

First try with Painter

So I just installed Painter11, and gave it a whirl with the latest SuicideGirls.com image I drew.

Few things I noted as compared to Photoshop.
The redraw sucks - at certain zoom sizes everything gets very crunky. They still haven't fixed the crazy line issues when you move your image around from the border.
I'm going to have to completely re-hotkey everything since their ideas of hotkeys are a joke.
I need to buy a new wacom art pen - one of the chisel tips. Their brushes beg for it and I haven't found my PShop hack way of doing it.

Other than the fact that I'm slow as hell with it because its new I see a lot of potential.

Original Sketch. The model is Diaz from her "Passion" photoshoot.
Process. The sketch took about an hour. No idea how long the painting took - maybe three? I tried going straight to Painter but was getting terrible results, so I quickly laid in the colors with PShop.

Monday, December 14, 2009

quickie - Joan Jett

All I ever see when I look at a picture of her is those eyes. Damn.