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Yep just did some indoor black and white studies. Realized I haven't really done any indoor paintings in about 2 years haha so I thought I would stretch my indoor painting legs and did these...Mostly just stick to perspective and everything else just falls into place :-) Basically made a two point perspective grid and roughed in the shape of the room..blocked in all the walls as pretty much solid values until the room started to work as a room in 3d space and then added some detail...As of recently I have been painting much more zoomed out and actually have been giving my navigator window in PS a lot of attention. It really helps you focus where the overall objects actually sit in 3d space in your painting. And the last one is a robot sketch. I was really focusing on the overall shape and colors and really tried to disregard the details.

Just finished this one up...Started with a bunch of thumbs...Love painting these..just quick and dirty...just stretching out your ideas. I then took the last thumb and started blocking it out...super rough with lots of underlying texture. I then started detailing and getting the general color right, making sure that it steps back in space.I really wanted to get a heavy atmosphere so I did trees and structures in the back with a really soft brushes and ended up washing back over them to compress the values and try and squeeze as much depth out of the haze as possible. In the final I painted in the lights and added more details and texture.








And I cropped it...Cause I like it better like this.

Sir Lion-O

Did this for a character challenge over at CGHUB. It's a Thundercat's meet dark adult themes...so I know it's a pretty loose interpretation, but mostly I wanted to paint metal armor. So I started with a quick black and white sketch...then I did a line drawing and tried to solve any design or layout problems...then a color study and then to final. I have always had trouble with making metal look like metal, so this was a big personal challenge with myself as well. In the future I need to finalize the pose closer to the beginning. I ended up modifying the pose halfway thru, which just is a pain and wastes too much time.

Here are some quick sketches...I just got a new phone, so I took a photo of a sketch book page and sent them to photoshop to see what would happen...definitely liked the process. The photos were pretty crappy but added a really nice, very chunky grain, that was enjoyable to work with. For me this is way better than scanning...for some reason I have quite the aversion to scanning, I think its because my scanner used to crash my computer after every scan, and turn what should be a simple task into a endless endeavor.


I actually did these quite a while ago for practice. I painted several landscapes from an Ansel Adams book I have. I feel that he did a really great job of keeping his values close and delicate. Also I was really interested in his compositions and how he made them work...Overall it was a really informative process.





And here is me trying to put those studies to work. My fantasy landscape with crazy waterfalls and all. It still has a long ways to go if I want to finish it, But Just wanted to show what I'm working on.

Here are some quick sketches from tonight....