June 24, 2019 00:00
Feathers and more feathers! Started in InfinitePainter on a black background initially as I really wanted the parrot to be bold although in the end I decided against it, but it took me a while to get a background that would fit. I got a little lazy with the feathers too where I really should have spent more time on them.
June 21, 2019 00:00
Using InfinitePainter on an iPad and ArtRage on a Surface Pro to create some digital art!
June 17, 2019 00:00
A simple rendering of a spaceman reference, it is not often that I attempt something that is more mechanical. Started in InfinitePainter to get the basic shapes and composition quickly constructed. Added an extra thick oil brush so the paints topology could reflect the creases of the suit. If you look very closely you can see that in fact I have overlaid a photo of my garden as a reflection in the visor. This piece of art was picked for the inclusion in a book called Teeny Tiny stories.
June 12, 2019 00:00
This is pretty typically of the style of portrait I usually produce, chunky colours, plenty of texture, saturation, simple background and a little twist.
June 12, 2019 00:00
This painting caused me quite a few problems, the main one being the yawn, it took me a very long time to define the correct shape and I was struggling to figure out how to apply a tweak to the reference, in the end I just added some extra texture.
June 11, 2019 00:00
Something very different, I started in InfinitePainter and spent quite a while drawing lines, I wanted almost a Blade Runner type vibe but with my own design and it is not often that I involve a sense of perspective in any of my paintings.
June 11, 2019 00:00
Another superhero, this time I wanted to be very original, my initial reference was a creepy clown doll which I tweaked to look like the joker. It was interesting to do a profile portrait for a change and the background was rendered separately and then brought in with the batman sneakily in the background. So this painting turned out to be more of a story to it and I had to focus more on the composition.
June 10, 2019 00:00
I thought of a simple concept, to draw a cute cat!. This turned out to be very close to the reference and actually I ended up completing most of it in Infinite Painter.
May 29, 2019 00:00
I really liked how this one turned out in the end it has quite a nice old fashioned painterly vibe. This was from a simple reference, but tree frogs tend to have some very interesting colours to them. This one I started in Infinite Painter and managed to get quite a realistic look quite quickly.
May 23, 2019 00:00
I had the same idea for this as I did for my previous yoda painting to focus mainly on the light sabre and have the lighting set up springing from mainly this single source of light. I had to work very hard to make the portrait as bright as possible without actually making it too bold.
May 14, 2019 00:00
I twist on Darth Vader I almost wanted to try out my own design and have his face emerging from the gloom, maybe a future Darth with some upgrades.
May 11, 2019 00:00
Taking some old pieces of Alien art and combining them into something new. Trying to stay faithful to my original pen drawing that I did a very long time ago by layering my previous alien paintings over the top. In the end I was quite happy that I achieved the correct texture balance and gave the alien I slightly different hue.
May 11, 2019 00:00
Using ArtRage on a Surface Pro to create some digital art!
May 8, 2019 00:00
Finally a Sansa portrait that I was at least reasonably happy with, I still don't think I quite got the likeness of Sophie Turner but it is close enough and the texture and the warm almost sepia tone gave an almost old master look.
May 2, 2019 00:00
Taking some old pieces of Alien art and combining them into something new
April 30, 2019 00:00
Putting my own spin on a superhero character, I really wanted to do more than a portrait here and challenge myself to a more of a full body pose.
April 29, 2019 00:00
Of course I started with an Ewok reference with the initial aim of adding this to my Star Wars gallery, but half way through I wasn't really feeling it, so had a little fun to create something else that possibly might reside on Endor!
