Bird King. again.

Thumbnails are fun.  I painted this thumbnail at this size.  I really enjoy thumbnails like this because I feel the most creative in this process.  For some reason my line-work is making little to no progress.  I seem to feel more comfortable with painting shapes.  I will keep working at it tho.  

I seem to be stuck on this "Bird King"  character that I posted earlier.  I would like to flesh this out more.  right now Adam Ford is one of my most favorite artists.  my style isn't like his at all, but he gets me excited about doing art.  I guess sometimes we need that.

Update: 30 March

I wanted his legs to be smaller like in the acrylic painting.  I messed around with this for 2 hours.  doesn't look like 2 hours worth of work, haha.

Logan

Well, I decided to take the time to "finish" this one.  He is being a huge fuss-monster right now so getting anything done is a miracle in and of itself.  He is usually pretty good...tomorrow he goes to the Doc, and I'm sure it will be the worst experience of his life for years to come.

Logan WIP

well, 1.5 weeks ago my wife gave birth to our baby boy, Logan!  He is a bundle of joy.  sometimes he is a Fuss monster, but for the most part he is pretty swell.  I haven't had much time, but I've started a painting of him.

It has been fun.  I usually try not to paint skin because it is pretty dang tough, but Im learning and thats what is important.  I haven't decided if I am just not able to make smooth shiny paintings or if I just really like the impressionistic feel...

The Bird King

I decided to start my "mobile" sketchbook for 2013.  I have one at home that I draw in all the time.  The paper in my "mobile" one is better and can take multiple mediums.

Anyway, I continue to study and learn, and drew this guy today and painted it using acrylic washes.  

I always see lots of issues once I put it down.  I like this a lot, but it isn't polished.  I would have to start over.  It was really fun to not care and just be really loose.  

I started out with a blue-violet ground and carved the figure out in white.  then used a yellow-orange mixture and went back and forth.  I added red at the end in a few places to bring it to life a bit more.

Abominable snowman

I found some "traditional" brushes online that I absolutely love.  I have tried to make my own, but hadn't been truly happy with them.  I decided to try these new ones out.

it is really fun to work with a limited color pallets, and I tried to be hard nosed about not using any layer styles or tweaks, and to paint it as if it were paint.  I was successful for the most part, but I did use some desaturation on the background and some layer opacity changes, but not much at all.  mostly on the background.  I did color pick at times, but it was minimal.

Foot soldier

This was a lot of fun.  I had made a texture brush a long time ago, and I decided to make a painting using only that texture brush.  I wanted to try and paint it only in greyscale and then apply color.

This is what I came up with.  I also used some dodge tools at the end as well as some color balance tricks.  I really like the feeling of this, and may do more.

Krampus demon...person

working on another piece for illustration before the end of the semester which is next wednesday.  eeeegads!

needs serious polish but this is a WIP.

Updated 12/12/12 woooooooooooooo I just noticed the date.  spooooooky.  eh.