Mr. Wings!

Just finished this one up! Onto a new project, maybe I'll spend the next few days doing some intensive studies!

Forgot about this one.

I forgot to ass this one, so I'll just throw it into a new post. Did it a few days ago, just another study.

Studies...wing dude

Look at that girl, with her titt'ays all out saying...hey...look at those titt'ays.

Angel doods, colors coming soon.

Screamy Elf Dude

I finished this one up pretty fast for how long it used to take me to do work. Only about 5 - 6 days, about 20 hours. I could have had it done faster if i didn't have to work every other day and keep up with my studies. But I can tell I've been getting faster since i started doing them in February.

I also managed to save out a half decent progress shot, hope blogger will let me keep the file big, it always seems to make my pictures smaller than I save them as.

Well, onto the next one! Hopefully something a tad more involved with a background and a monster or two! I'll post a working sketch when I get one worked up!

Super happy fun time art!

Whew, been awhile since I posted!

Took forever but I finished up that elf girl painting a bit ago and just hadn't gotten around to posting it on here. Still not much for making progress files so none for her, but I should have something for the next illo I almost have done!

 That's just about the best Illo I've done to date, paint wise anyway. The pose and comp are pretty static but I was trying to focus more on getting a polished paint. I think I painted the thing about 3 different times! lol

In my last post I put up the drawing and b/w sketch if you're interested.

I haven't been updating even with studies because I've been trying to draw more on paper and work more on my fundamentals, and with out a scanner I can't really post those. But I did feel like getting back to the computer and painting studies was important so I did a still life last night/this morning. I need to do way more of these!   I think this took me maybe 5 hours, all in photoshop, done mostly on a single layer.

- Chris

Been Awhile!

Almost 2 weeks since my last post! Where does the time go.

I've been trying to keep up with my studies, but still feel like I'm slacking a little.  I suppose no matter how hard I work I'll always feel like that since progress is not immediate, but I could still stand to kick it up a few notches.

Here's another face study I did a few hours here before I go to bed. I had planned on doing a second one here tonight, but I really got into this one and it was already 1 in the morning by the time I finished! 

Here's a personal peice I've been laboring over for awhile. I plan on having this totally done within the next 2 days so I can get back to working on my fake magic card illos which seem to be slightly more informative than working on random personal stuff like this.What I like more is having to solve more complex compositional problems and all the stuff that goes along with and comes out of that.  One thing I did get out of this piece is the importance of having a finished line drawing.  If I've figured anything out in the past few months it's that I am not very painterly, I have a very hard time working on a painting when I don't have a road map of whats going on, which is one reason it was taking me so long to get paintings done in the past. Whoops!

 

Even more Stuffz

Yeaow! I wish I was faster at doing work so I had more to post!  I've been working on a personal piece, putting the other stuff I was doing (magic cards, also personal work) on hold to focus on painting a face from imagination.

I can defiantly see the improvement from doing the photo studies this past month and it gets me super pumped up to do more work and learn all the other things I need to brush up on.  I really need to work on getting a thin, clean and finished line drawing before I go to paint.  I think that's my next big goal.  That will really speed up the painting process for me and get away from the bad habit I have of doing endless revisions of my personal work as I'm working on it, constantly coming up with new costume pieces or noodling with the shape of things.

Below is just the original b/w under painting I did, (before adding color) I've since changed up the horns ridges, the metal armor thingies on them, added a bit more detail to the armor and some thorn bushes behind her to break up the background a little.  

The rest of these images are some of the studies I've done over the past week/week and half.  Alittle light on studies this week!  I really need to start paitning some more still-life's and backgrounds and try not to get caught up in personal work!