holy shit
when did you get so good?? These are fucking amazing. I absolutely love the colors you use and your brush strokes and the life in these!!
also, had no idea you were in belgium!! hello from holland
I agree with @Iruka on the lack of clarity in the last one...but I also agree that the colors are gorgeous! You've got some fantastic pieces in this thread.
Decided to go in another direction, wasn't happy with that last one. Felt too much like her head was pasted on her body for some reason. And a bit flat.
Thanks lyrium, more digital mimicry indeed. For some reason, I feel like figure drawing should be done traditionally. You can't beat that oldschool struggle.
Anyway, I'm screwing around with this one here:
Was hoping to make this a portfolio piece that I could show magazine editors, but it's not really coming along as smooth as I hoped.
I'm starting to see a bit of a sam spratt influence, I think? I imagine you do a bunch of studying between your posts, I would be curious as to who your influences are now, and if you have any rougher doodles to show?
That's a sharp observation, Iruka. Sam Spratt has indeed become a huge influence recently. He and Jason Seiler are probably the biggest ones right now.
I've got some rough and crummy life studies that I do inbetween these things. I'll post some in a bit.
Okay, so I've taken some of the doodles and studies that I did over the last 6 months. They're all flawed in one way or another though.
Pretty much all of it is related to faces I now notice. I've got some figure drawings and paintings as well, but they're on my phone. Once I get them transferred to my hard drive I'll throw those in too.
Its nice to see the loose stuff, it seems playful, which is excellent. You are really picking up a handle on form when it comes to just building it with chunks of light. The portraits are starting to look confident. The paintings with shifted layers are totally freaking me out. do you work like that, or is it just messing around?
Thanks, Iruka. Still have a long way to go though. There's just so much to learn sometimes you don't even know where to start.
The shifted thing happened on accident at first. I would be drawing and accidentally somehow hit a button on my pen in combination with keyboard-shortcuts and poof... Copied a part of my layer and shifted it. But then I liked it and just painted over it a bit. It happens from time to time. I might work some more on that last one, think it has some potential to turn into something new and unexpected.
Another portrait, was a tribute I did last week for a recently-deceased singer.
Really like that street, its nice to see your painting skills applied to more than just portraits. Portraits that have a good likeness are plenty to built a portfolio on, so its not really a crit, but I like seeing the flexibility, personally.
I know Jason Seiler! My teacher is really good friends with him, was one of his groomsman. Cool fella!
Really cool colors in that last piece. Building that kind of depth in a scene is a nice skill that doesn't really get shown in portraits.
So cool that you know Jason Seiler, lyrium. Jealous of all the awesome artists living Stateside.
Going to do more of these city painting things, here's an experiment. Focussing mostly on value and color for describing objects and creating depth. Trying to come up with colors that aren't there but still hopefully fit in.
Glad you like em, Iruka. What you said about switching things up really stuck with me, so making an effort to step out of that comfort zone.
A while ago I said I'd post some life drawings. Well, I've finally gotten around to taking some (cell phone) pictures.
First one is a 4-hour study:
An older one from 2013 that I stumbled upon:
And this is from last night, after the first 45 minutes:
After 3 hours. I like the beginning better.
I'll say this, if you ever feel like you're getting good at painting because you got some photoshop skills, try painting from a live model. That shit will burst your bubble real quick.
Thanks, Iruka! Nowadays it's pretty much always oil. I tried acrylics a while ago, but the paint just dried too fast for my liking. Maybe because it was summer, but I had to replace the paints on my palette every hour or so 'cause they were dried up already. It is a lot easier not having to worry about solvents and toxicity though.
I had a lot of doubts about including him in the picture myself. Should have done some small studies before jumping right in with the big one. I'll see about painting over the figure.
Here's the other big one I'm painting right now. Still need to go over the figures for a second detail pass.
This one is fairly experimental for me, pretty much winging it. Any thoughts?
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These are all just wonderful. i LOVE the textures you have going through everything. I keep going back to the city one that you described as "Probably the last painted thingy I'll have done in 2014." I love the focus of the people around the light, waiting to cross and the car...so much crammed into that area, the the rest sort of breathes, and directs you back to that area. Love it.
I went back to the blue city one and more or less got rid of the figure, also threw in some color because I wasn't feeling the monochrome thing anymore.
Just following my gut and we'll see what happens, might have to use it as underpainting for something else in the future.
Also thanks for the feedback, Iruka, it helps a lot!
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This one literally made me gasp. Holy shit, it's got so much life and expression! Artgasm.
I might hate it tomorrow, but right now I'm pretty happy with how this one turned out:
when did you get so good?? These are fucking amazing. I absolutely love the colors you use and your brush strokes and the life in these!!
also, had no idea you were in belgium!! hello from holland
Struggling and stumbling through this thing. What do you guys think? Suggestions, flaws, comments or Harsh/Honest criticism welcome!
You're absolutely right about the lack of clarity. I used a cell phone picture that I took as a reference, but it was pretty blurry.
I decided to just get rid of the mass of people that it was supposed to be, and make it a nearly empty street. Hopefully it reads a bit better now!
Might go for color someday.
So this is something else.
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Aaand I went crazy, might have ruined it or not..
Saturday-afternoon-sketching
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Anyway, I'm screwing around with this one here:
Was hoping to make this a portfolio piece that I could show magazine editors, but it's not really coming along as smooth as I hoped.
Calling it quits for now..
I've got some rough and crummy life studies that I do inbetween these things. I'll post some in a bit.
Pretty much all of it is related to faces I now notice. I've got some figure drawings and paintings as well, but they're on my phone. Once I get them transferred to my hard drive I'll throw those in too.
The shifted thing happened on accident at first. I would be drawing and accidentally somehow hit a button on my pen in combination with keyboard-shortcuts and poof... Copied a part of my layer and shifted it. But then I liked it and just painted over it a bit. It happens from time to time. I might work some more on that last one, think it has some potential to turn into something new and unexpected.
Another portrait, was a tribute I did last week for a recently-deceased singer.
Along with a lunchbreak prep sketch:
Really cool colors in that last piece. Building that kind of depth in a scene is a nice skill that doesn't really get shown in portraits.
facebook.com/LauraCatherwoodArt
So cool that you know Jason Seiler, lyrium. Jealous of all the awesome artists living Stateside.
Going to do more of these city painting things, here's an experiment. Focussing mostly on value and color for describing objects and creating depth. Trying to come up with colors that aren't there but still hopefully fit in.
A while ago I said I'd post some life drawings. Well, I've finally gotten around to taking some (cell phone) pictures.
First one is a 4-hour study:
An older one from 2013 that I stumbled upon:
And this is from last night, after the first 45 minutes:
After 3 hours. I like the beginning better.
I'll say this, if you ever feel like you're getting good at painting because you got some photoshop skills, try painting from a live model. That shit will burst your bubble real quick.
Here's the other big one I'm painting right now. Still need to go over the figures for a second detail pass.
This one is fairly experimental for me, pretty much winging it. Any thoughts?
I went back to the blue city one and more or less got rid of the figure, also threw in some color because I wasn't feeling the monochrome thing anymore.
Just following my gut and we'll see what happens, might have to use it as underpainting for something else in the future.
Also thanks for the feedback, Iruka, it helps a lot!