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.

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.

quickie - Joan Jett

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

Master Study - the milkmaid

I've been wanting to do a master study for a while and the topic came up in a discussion at work. I saw this Vermeer while I was on vacation and was amazed at how vibrant the colors were. No reproduction can match the original oils (as with any painting). The detail on the bread alone held my attention for quite some time.
I'm trying to do this painting like digitally like a real painting, no transforms no undo's just paint. I'm also recording this one, so I'll probably post a process vid at some point.

Lifedrawing 11-14-09

So it's been a few months since I've been to a lifedrawing session. Work's been taking up my weekends lately, so I was happy when I went to this one. I only got to attend half of it though.
The first one was about 10 mins the others were 20. The last one I had a rather unfortunate seat, but thought it would be a bit obvious if I moved.

Muffins?

Over a week with no posts? Ah well. been doing a lot of 3d, think I might start something like the daily sketches but w/ zbrush. Have to see what my time is like.


I saw this on Tam's blog and felt like painting it. So I did.

Daily Sketch - 31

Was supposed to be a cute zombie dressed up for Halloween. The cuteness got lost from the original sketch. oh well... im just glad its over.

Daily Sketch -30

Once more unto the.... nevermind.
Color study from a SG photo.

Daily Sketch -29

A quick color rough from one of my photos of my trip to Amsterdam.