Using ArtRage on a Surface Pro to create some digital art!

Inspired by Bob Ross I had an idea to come up with an original fantasy landscape.

Using ArtRage on a Surface Pro to create some digital art!

An amalgamation of several paintings I had previously finished.

Using ArtRage on a Surface Pro to create some digital art!

This painting changed quite a lot during inception as originally it was supposed to be a child of the forest from Game Of Thrones, but I was struggling with the oil brush in ArtRage and things were getting a little muddy.

Using ArtRage on a Surface Pro to create some digital art!

Tried to use the oil brush for as much of the portrait as possible, but I am still struggling a little to blend colours smoothly. Tried to overlay a previous portrait with different blend modes and then push colours and textures towards the end.

Simply a fly on a flower, I wanted to try and channel the success I had with the dragonfly painting I did a couple of years back with the foreground even more prominent with a blurred background.

Using ArtRage on a Surface Pro to create some digital art!

Another superhero!, I really do like getting a theme on and then bingeing on it. Again I gathered up a lot of reference and wanted to produce my own take which would a combination of the 60s Adam West version and the latest Dark Knight.

Using ArtRage on a Surface Pro to create some digital art!

More superheroes, this time on of my favourite, catwoman!, I gathered quite a few references and realised that it should be very much a Batman Returns type catwoman but with my own design of mask.

Using ArtRage on a Surface Pro to create some digital art!

A fun monster, overlaying many of my previous monsters combined with the use of the Warp tool, this turned out to be more of a photo bashing exercise but using my own art. I always find these experiments valuable as it pushes me out of my comfort zone.

I am certainly in the mood for superheroes at the moment. This one I completed on my new Wacom Cintique and wanted to put my own spin on the wonder woman concept. I gathered quite a few references and just figured out along the way what I wanted.

Using ArtRage on a Surface Pro to create some digital art!

Using ArtRage on a Surface Pro to create some digital art!

An experiment to adapt my original Spike piece into something else, a troll. My idea was to give me practice with the newly introduced Warp tool.

This painting was based on my airbrush based Spike portrait as I wanted to experiment with the warp tool and to apply a few more textures.

Using ArtRage on a Surface Pro to create some digital art!

I really pushed the palette knife to blend the oil paint as much as possible and actually ended up blurring at the end for a softening effect, ideally I think I would have liked to have pushed the piece a little more but for the blending experiment, it did what I wanted.

Using ArtRage on a Surface Pro to create some digital art!

A paint over from an old pastel drawing which is probably about 20 years old. From the scanned in picture I simply overlaid some paint and added a few effects, so gauge whether I have made some artistic progress.