New work!

Here's some stuff I've done since the last post. Most were assignments done for class.

Kingdom of Heaven Study

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Hey all. Here's a study I did from a screencap of the film Kingdom of Heaven. It started more as a copy at the beginning but I eventually wound up using it to try to experiment with painting process stuff. Regardless, it matches the photo decently well I suppose. Some things are still incomplete or inaccurate but I kind of got tired of it after a long while and I feel like my time would be better spent doing more, quicker screencap and photo studies that focus on painting efficiently in addition to studying lighting/value matching.

Anyway, here's a brief look at the process:

Took a little over 8 hours total I think. No color sampling/cut&paste from the original photo. Most of the patterns on the wall were made in another file and then tiled onto the painting.

Here's the original shot:

Fanime Stuff

This last May my friend Lancing Chen and I got a table at Fanime Con in San Jose. I forgot to post some of the new fan art I did for it here (Garrus from Mass Effect and Prince Zuko from Avatar: The Last Airbender). It was kind of a rush to get it all done in time after finals and I wasn't able to do as many pieces as I'd hoped, but it wound up working out pretty well in the end regardless.

Still Life Study

Done for class.

Dwaginz

A book cover I did for my friend back in December. I should really start paying attention to this blog.

New Thing!

This is for a project I'm doing with some of my friends. I'll post more on it soon.

Spitpainting

So there's this thing called "Spitpainting" that's been getting big lately. It's a group on Facebook in which members can choose from around three or four given topics and then do a 30 minute painting on it. You cannot use any photos at all, and you can't go overtime.

Here's one I did a few days ago. The topic was "Shogun". I added a small lighting tweak to it here that wasn't in the 30 minute version I turned in.

Small post I know, but I'll be doing more of these in the future.