Finished

Cleaned, tidied up, color corrected.

Spider Scifi Update

Blocking in values. Experimenting with a few texture brushes I've had for a while but never used. I can't remember where I got some of these. All over.

More Work

Clothing Practice

Okay. Its been a little while and I've been updating the pro blog like a mad man while neglecting this thing. I suppose I'll try and give some helpful advice.

If you have a digital camera, take a pic of yourself. Try it out naked, you'll be the only one seeing the pics. Make sure you get a front and back.

Open the pics in photoshop and trace your outline and any relevant musculature you like. Fill it in with grey about 70% for the lighter skinned peoples (look in the color chooser people!).

Once you have that, create a new layer and basically draw whatever style of clothes you feel you need practice in. This way you don't necessarily need to worry about the proportions and angles of the body, you can concentrate on the stuff you need to work on. Make it rough, make it sketchy, give it a painterly feel, make it a great addition to your portfolio to score that elusive job. Just get better.

And that's it. Practice.


PRACTICE.

I felt I needed some practice with modern soldiers.

More Practice

A Sargent. He's particularly nice when you want to stay loose.

Texture Texture

I'm experimenting with texture now, and I've got to say how nice it is. It really cuts down on trying to paint every detail.

More Paintings

The paintings are starting to go faster. I guess this is a good thing? I find I've got my color wheel next to me most of the time now. It helps break down the master paintings into manageable sections. I still want to play around with adjustment layers, but I feel i could be painting on the image rather than dicking around with a shadow. Practice makes perfect.

On the plus side I'm becoming more comfortable with color.

Practice Practice

Slowly but surely making progress in the photoshop department. I've decided to copy old master paintings so I can relearn painting basics in the digital format. Up next, I think I'll tackle a Frederick Leighton.

Goofing off

As I play more and more with photoshop and my little graphics tablet, the more I like building an image from scratch rather than scanning and painstakingly inking it. Here's something I did in about 35 min.