Quick Hour and Half Study

Time to start up the dailies again. Here's a quick experimentation painting with some "new" brushes.  I got some brushes from artists on dA (deviantart.com) that I haven't had a chance to test out and now that winter break is here, there's plenty of time to mess with them! I need to start putting in more saturated colors into my paintings.  I think this one is too muted for my liking.  

Itch to Paint

One thing about working at the my apt is that it gets very... depressing and the melancholy feel starts to sink in.  I pretty much dislike windows that face south because of that.  Since I couldn't focus on my animation homework I decided to do a 1 hour portrait.  

In this one project I'm working on with a group of friends - a fantasy/adventure/comedy story, one of the main characters, Ethan, has an uncle who was a king of this well established kingdom.  For the longest time we were trying to figure out how he would look like, still a work in progress, but that gave me the push to do something rather than sit at my desk, staring off into space. So here's a rough start to this character's physical appearance. 

Quick 1 hour study

Finally got a break from animating this semester. Here's a quick 1 hour portrait study. I was messing with a few brushes that I have yet to experiment with and it was fun to test out the different textures and tweak them a bit just to see what happens. Right now it's looking more like a rough reversal project. xD Ah... that was one charcoal related rendering project that I don't miss. haha. I'm happy with the way it turned out especially for an hour study.  Hopefully, I can find more time in the near future to bust out more paintings.

Portraits 18 and 19

Well... All I can say is that it was a very busy, yet fun weekend. xD lol... I have to catch up on all my projects too.

These two paintings were master copies of works from Elisabeth Le Brun and John E. Millais (respectively). For the second one (a portrait of Alice Gray) I attempted to use the same palette from the first piece (Hyacinthe Gabrielle Roland).  Turned out okay, 'cept in the AG portrait, the kid's eyes were huge and the version I painted the eyes are itty bitty things... If anything I'm really happy with how the nose turned out for that one. xD

As for the first portrait, I was trying to not over render like how I've been in some of the other portraits I've done so far. It was so tempting to blend everything together to make it super smooth and what not. I think I did this one in an hour and a half... something like that it was definitely under 2 hours.

Technically I have another portrait due this Tues, but, meh. Going to save that for later today. I wonder if I also have enough time to throw in another landscape... hrm... guess we'll just wait and see.

Portrait 15

Wooo numba 15.  I didn't know who to do a portrait of, so I asked my sister and the first person she says is Chris Colfer. So here's a quick like sketch for today.  This time around I tried to really get the proportions down.  Hopefully it doesn't look (too) off.
Will actually get to painting it tomorrow.  Today was the last day of CUMC summer day camp, so that meant dinner and performance for the parents and the kiddies after a long day of play in GGPark, so yes, I'm wiped.  I didn't think I'd be this tired actually since I didn't have to wake up so early today.  I wasn't needed at the church this morning to pack lunches or to start prepping lunch for leaders, so that meant another half an hour to sleep, yay~  But, yeah, after day camp it was pretty much a mad rush to get everything set up for the dinner plus helping out with serving dinner. So glad I didn't have to cook said dinner.  Hopefully now I can get more practice in now that day camp is over.  :D

Portrait 14

A quick 1 hour sketch practice. Though it was probably less than that because I got distracted a lot... Totally not focused today. @__x

Portrait 10

A quickie portrait. @___x

Days 31-33

So I mixed it up a bit and decided to do the daily 30 mins and a 3 hr portrait study over the span of three days.  Midterms are here and it's a bit harder to keep up with blogging my progress.  Hopefully when midterms and reading are pretty much done I can get back on track with updating daily. Which reminds me. I still need to scan my winter break sketch book for my other blog. . . Greeeeeat.

Day 31 - 30 min - Hydration Cafe

Day 32 - 30 min 

Days 18 - 30

Trying to keep on top of everything is a challenge. Here's about two weeks worth of speed paintings.  Hopefully next time I don't have a giant post with speed paints on them.

Day 18

30 min - N.C.Wyeth  rock study

1 hr - Cezanne Study

Day 19

30 min - Praca Aliados Study

1 hr

Day 20

30 min - rocks

1 hr - Story character exploration (Adv. of 4 Hapless Mortals) 

Day 21

30 min

1 hr - random portrait 

side note: That's super dark...

Day 22

30 min

1 hr - Portrait of Alex C.

side note: sorta better, need to add more contrast.

Day 23

30 min - going back to basics

1 hr - Portrait of Tim J.

Day 24

30 min - working on keeping brightness and saturation in color.

1 hr - Portrait of Steph T. 

Day 25

30 min

1 hr - clouds

Day 26

30 min - working on saturation against a dark background

1 hr - practice with lighting

Day 27

30 min

1 hr

Day 28

30 min - Weee more colorful birds~

1 hr

Day 29

30 min - Uh... It came out much darker than I thought. . . Need to work on saturation. 

1 hr

Day 30

30 min - tone practice. Got to keep going back to the basics~

1 hr - Random Portrait

Day 17

Just for kicks I decided to do today's paintings in Photoshop. . . Bad decision unless I was doing a painting with metal or gems in it. Lesson learned. 

30 min.

1 hr. 

Day 16

... Probably the latest I'll ever submit. 4am in the morning and I'm in the Maya lab on campus. hahaha... ugh I need to sleep.

30 min.

1 hr.

Day 15

30 min.

1 hr. 

Day 13 and 14

Day 13

30 min.

1 hr.

Day 14

30 min.

1 hr.

Day 12

hahaha... posting before midnight is definitely not going to happen again.

30 min.

1 hr. 

Day 11

Getting this stuff up a bit early 'cause I still have Maya homework to finish. Bump mapping is tedious work...

30 min. 

1 hr.