Speed Painting II

Very cool find Lenny, I like that view of the castle. My inspiration for the things I don't draw from life or reference? It depends, sometimes I just want to try to get a certain idea down, so I blob color randomly onto a canvas until something I like appears. Imagining what you want to draw and projecting the image in your mind onto the paper before drawing it seems to help a lot too. Usually I start off by looking at an object of some kind, and then I work from that shape and build on new things from there. It's kind of hard to explain.








Wonkiest feet of 2006:



Stuff from today, I really like how the first one came out for some reason:



Buncha' blind contours:












Scary:


Some more studies:

Hehehehe...you've moved on from hands to feet.

This 'blind contours' thing looks interesting. I'm probably wrong in saying this, but is it when you don't look at what you're drawing at all? Instead you feel the contours of the person's face (in this case) and draw what you feel?

whoa that's some nice improvement chruser. I've been getting into drawing again lately aswell. I'll post some stuff later.

Some quick poses sketches with ref




so far the only "painting" I've done, altough it isnt exactly done, there's still alot of rough edges on it. with ref.


stuff i did today, no ref


I've got some more on my pc but alot was lost due to me being stupid. Also have some more classic studies on paper, but I dont have a scanner.

I havent really started painting yet, as I want to get the basics of the body in first. But the skull exercise has given me at least the confidence to start painting more stuff real soon.

I've also started with maya 3d so it's kind of switching between different stuff all the time but it's alot fun learning it all, especially when you start seeing improvement.

I've been playing with Maya...well when I say playing, I mean it's been bullying me into submission. After a few months I've finally worked out how one draws the curves...but that's it.

It looks like everyone likes to draw hands and arms...the skull's very good too.

See Chruser, you've already got one person willing to post in a new Speed Painting thread.

Cool, more participation.
undeadzombieguy: Thanks, I like the arms, and the gestures look promising. Be careful with using too soft brushes for paintings, they're easy to take into habit. Harder brushes require you to understand the planes (and therefore, form) a little better. Keep it up!


Some recent stuff, mostly studies from ref/life. Paintdrawdoodle to post:



Hogarth planes:












Some Bridgman studies:






Marker experiments (mostly from life):
















Experiments gone horribly awry:






Quick sketches from Spooge ref:



Yup, that's all for now. Feel free to crit.

Your eyes are getting better.

Thanks Bob.

I've been busy lately, but here's a doodle. More spams coming up soon:

How you color good.

Done with traditional media or digitally? If digital with what package and what kind of brush configuration for the mountains?

New page!

Thanks Randuin. The landscape was painted in Photoshop, with the "Airbrush Pen Opacity Flow" (19 px brush by default), and a few finishing touches added with the "Mesh - Large" brush in the Faux Finish Brushes package, both come with PSCS2, although I remember the Airbrush Pen dating back to PS7 at the very least.

Some spams:



(Yeah, this is what happens to my handwriting when I'm more concerned with other things, glaring into the wall (at objects) in this case.)










(All-day pose, if you're wondering):




A couple of poses from imagination:





I found a couple of older scans, a bit over a week ago or so, some master copies.

Rembrandt copy:



Original (after someone scanned it, anyway):



Proud-Hon Study:



Edit: Weird, the satsuma looks like a bright-red apple with my Flatron L1715S screen set to "Movie" mode, while it looks more naturally orange in the default mode. I guess I should be comparing colors on more monitors to see what most people will experiencing my color choices as. (As if I really care )