September Theme: Speedpainting
I’ve got Photoshop CS5 now, and it’s sort of reinvigorated my love of digital painting. This used to be my primary medium, but through art school, I was encouraged to use it less, and it sort of fell by the wayside. Now I’m back to it and loving it, so September’s my excuse [...]
September 1: Viewer
I don’t like this one and I don’t know what’s going on and that’s a hell of a blobby arm. But this was my first speedpainting in a good long time, so whatever, takes me a while to get back into it, I guess.
You may also notice that I’m posting ten days’ worth of [...]
September 2: Concentrate
Suddenly, the artist realizes with horror that she’s never learned to draw rocks.
Or trees.
Or water.
I think it’s time to do some studies.
September 3: Monitoring
This one was a big lesson, in that I did all the screens sort of roughly, then realized at the end I had quite a bit of time to spare and probably could have got the proportions down a bit better from the start. You live, you learn. An hour is a surprisingly [...]
September 5: Daughter
God, this is so awful. She looks like an evil doll. In fact, I’m going to go with that. It’s an evil doll at a rock concert.
September 6: Modeling
Composition’s a bit wonky, but I actually like this. It captures the atmosphere I was trying to get down.
September 8: Storey
This sort of straight-lined perspective stuff is absolutely Not My Forte, and this one had quite a few false starts, but I’m actually pretty pleased with the result.
September 9: Error
This title makes absolutely no sense until you realize that Error is the name of this old elf character of mine from back in high school, born of the fact that I deeply dislike elves but love drawing elf ears. When the random generator threw out this title, I couldn’t resist. Playing with [...]
September 10: Soul
File this one under “yeah, I don’t know either”. It was the first thing that came to mind, so I did it. And here it is.
September 11: Shelter
Will seriously do studies of forests at some point. Because like… trees, man. A lot of stuff I’d normally reference if I were doing a full-on finished piece just sort of gets faked for these speedies. Maybe I should factor reference time into the hour? What’s the standard? Who knows.
September 12: Temperature
Conceptart.org had a big sale on their streaming classes this weekend, so I picked up Jason Manley’s colour theory lecture for cheap. And man, even if I’d paid full price, it would’ve been worth it – I’m not even halfway through yet, and I’ve already learned a ridiculous amount of useful things. This [...]
September 13: Firework
You would think that, what with it basically being just a big blob of lines, a firework would be easy to paint. You would be wrong. The vast majority of the hour was spent painting and repainting and tweaking and retweaking the stupid thing, and it STILL looks sorta off.
September 14: Victory
Another one that can probably be directly blamed on Malazan.
This composition has issues.
September 15: Literate
I got half an hour into another painting with another word entirely, but it was awful and so I started again with a new word, because why not, you’re not the boss of me.
Lighting is fun!
September 16: Exhibit
A little behind, obviously, considering this is actually the 19th as I post this… got busy and social the past couple of days, but I’m determined to catch up! It’s SUNDAY!
September 17: Cassette
I had to make a very real effort not to do this in shades of orange and brown like, uh, 80% of this month so far. I can’t help it! I have a preference!
September 18: Skeleton
So many questions. Why a skeleton? Why in a house of some sort? Why the gold and stuff? Why the (piles and piles of) sand on the floor? I DON’T HAVE ALL THE ANSWERS.
That’s 3 in one day; two tomorrow and I’ll be caught up. Happy Talk Like A [...]
September 19: Supernatural
Need to look up how other people do ghosts. Weird glowy transparent things are… not something you study in art school, for one.
September 20: Desire
Yep, it’s Sandman fanart again. The generator spit this topic out, and, well, it’s one of the Endless I DIDN’T draw in fanart month!
September 21: Car
1915 Ford Touring Car. God, this thing is gorgeous. This is my third time trying to draw it (the first two attempts are both in old illustrations) and probably the most accurate, although I’ve still yet to do it justice. Not sure why I always put it against a sunset, either. [...]
September 22: Darkness
Used Daz3D to work out the lighting on the face. If I’d paid for it, I’d be tempted to call it a truly atrocious program – certainly one of the worst UIs I’ve ever encountered – but it was free, and for a free program, it’s useful for quickly figuring out how light hits [...]
September 24: Reign
I’ve doodled this particular character, some sort of elven queen, on and off over the years. I’ve never really been quite sure of who she is – there’s certainly a sort of priestess vibe about her, but I’m quite certain she’s a queen. I don’t think she always was, though, and I don’t [...]
September 25: Expression
I’ve been doing head studies all evening. This still isn’t very good – for some reason I find it way easier to actually draw in pencil than in Photoshop, even after a decade with a tablet. I wonder why?
September 27: Blood
The first thing to come to mind for this topic was the iconic image from Let The Right One In, a fabulous horror movie. So this is Eli, in theory, although the likeness is… not great.
The movie’s being remade for American audiences, as Let Me In. The trailer looks surprisingly decent! Let’s [...]
September 28: Chapel
This is so boring. Just trying to get a good sense of structure to the building.
September 29: Wing
It’s been grey and gross this week. But it makes an interesting atmosphere for a picture!
September 30: Hat
And so ends another month. Although it got off to a shaky start and had a couple of stumbles, this one was relatively painless, probably because of the strictly enforced time limit, which kept these from getting out of hand – an hour’s a good amount of time to spend on this sort of [...]
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