Speed Painting II

Thanks guys. I've noticed that people really prefer my more detailed works, but I still like to keep things loose enough to capture the mood/light/basic ideas. In a sense, it feels like tidying up / adding details to the piece is solely the result of wanting people to find amazement in your technical expertise. "Ooh, the skin is so slick that it looks like a photograph!" Spending 5 hours smudging color blobs together doesn't teach me anything, it feels. Or am I just stupid for not aiming for what "most people really like"?

Anyway, some new studies and stuff, mostly water colors this time:

Well, I'd rail those chicks.

More stuff coming soon, I just need to photograph some paintings that are too large to be scanned.

New batch! (Oldest in the top)







Life, two Bridgman copies:


Master (?) copy:


Rendering practice from ref:


Doodles, ignore the giant, skewed head:



I took the liberty to photograph some recent oil paintings too:





Inspired by Craig Mullins, my choice of colors:


Finally, a sucky mouse doodle from imagination. Bleeh! I guess too much Wacom reliance for digital work isn't good though; I just can't seem to control the strokes well enough with the mouse.


Gonna study some Loomis now, hum de dum.

Very nice Chrusuer. I'm jelous you're so good.

Dar_Win: Thanks. Don't be jealous, drawing and painting are really all about practice. The more time you invest in it, the better you will get. Of course, "there are better ways to invest time than to spend two hours filling out a background", to quote Craig Mullins.

Just check this thread out if you don't believe me, I'm amazed the images are still around. Geez:

http://www.zelaron.com/forum/showthread.php?t=25383


Aaanyway, draw to post. Some Loomis copies and stuff:




Employing the ball drawing method on references:


Some drawings from imagination:


Hum de dum. Perspective got a bit funky. I should really do more of these, and practice harder on capturing larger shapes and forms quickly:


More stuff:

Wow. Some of these must take ages to do.

I know that this thread is a "Speed Painting" thread, but online the first it seems to be only you contributing. You ought to start up a third thread, again with a certain theme, and a time limit of an hour per picture, and see what people come up with. Just one page of this thread is enough inspiration for most people, let alone 4 pages you never know what might come out.

Wow! Very nice stuff.

Lenny, thanks. That's not a bad idea at all, some other art forums have things alike that in the form of daily sketchgroups with certain themes (e.g. "The aliens attack", "Walking trees" et cetera). If anyone reading this would consider to contribute on a regular basis, let me know.

Jamesadin, thanks.

My computer decided to die on me. I had the chance to try Windows XP 64, but it refused to let me install a majority of the drivers. I had to revert back to an older OS, and now I'm without scanner drivers again.

Anyway, some quick studies from ref, about 30 minutes (25-35) each, trying to get better at getting the large shapes and the important things down quickly. Gotta do a bunch of these from life as well. Oldest at the top, newest at the bottom: