Akbar

April 20, 2019 00:00

In the end this was a pretty faithful reproduction of the reference but I really wanted to push the texture, I think in hindsight I may have overdone it a little, especially with pushing the high pass sharpness filter.

Eagle3

April 13, 2019 00:00

Another eagle!, this time face on, copious use of the bear fur sticker spray for this one and the key for this one I think was probably getting the crop right.

Ollofalong

March 8, 2019 00:00

A lot of this painting was spent in Krita and following a simple reference of a squirrel, I went quite a way with it until I couldn't quite get the composition right and in the end brought the warp tool out to create a slightly different creature.

PennyWise

February 23, 2019 00:00

I haven't seen IT, but a portrait of the main protagonist seems to be right up my alley! It gave me the opportunity to try again a little lighting from below which I thinks works very well for a portrait and is not something you often see. At times I was struggling with the composition as the hair never seemed to give me a satisfactory shape.

Robocop2

February 16, 2019 00:00

Another go at Robocop, this time in simple profile, I wanted to try and make this as original as possible in my style and found that making it a warmer tone rather than the traditional blue metallic hue worked better in this case.

Cat

February 2, 2019 00:00

Started the painting in Krita working my way up from a thumbnail. I wanted to tweak the colours a little here as the original reference had blue eyes, so I exported at one stage to GIMP to have a tweak and then blurred with the palette knife towards the end which is something I have learnt to do with an animal portrait.