Friday, 29 August 2014

More portrait digital sketches using the andrew loomis method, improving slowly



Hello all, I have quite a lot of work to upload and update my blog with, however it's midnight now and I am shattered, so for now I will leave you with some digital sketching I did of 3 female faces. I used the Andrew Loomis method for the structure of the heads, things such as an equal distance from the chin to the nose, the nose to the eyebrow line and the eyebrow line to the hair line as an example. Then I had reference loaded up which I used for the features, The faces did not turn out exactly like the reference but I am still pretty happy with it over all.

The first face of the 3 did not turn out as good as the others. From memory I spent about 1 hour on the first face, an hour and a half one the second and just over 2 hours on the third one. I also recorded the full process for you guys to watch with me babbling on in the background :)
See the image and video below.


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Tuesday, 29 July 2014

Darth maul time lapse painting

So i decided to paint Darth Maul from Star Wars episode 1, it could have turned out better... but it could have gone worse so I wont complain.. I didn't have the highest resolution image which made things difficult, but here it is below anyway, done in photoshop with photo reference ( a print screen from the film )
Also the Youtube video of me painting it is below too :)

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Thursday, 10 July 2014

How to design and draw a dragon head from the side profile!

Hey guys, sorry it's been a really long time since I updated my blog, I have been working hard with more videos and studies which I will post up soon. For now though I wanted to pose my latest video, uploaded just now!

How to draw an awesome dragon head from the side view using animal reference. The video is of me drawing some animals used for reference and then putting those studies together to come up with a cool dragon design. Below is a link to the video and below that is the image showing the animals and dragon.
I am really excited about this one so I hope you guys like it! :)

Tuesday, 6 May 2014

Realistic Pokemon Bulbasaur video and image

I have just finished uploading my latest YouTube video ' drawing a realistic bulbasaur Pokemon'. This is my first creature type painting but here is the video and the image, be sure to subscribe if you like it guys :)

Thursday, 24 April 2014

The hobbit - Gollum study

Just finished painting a still from the Hobbit movie, as you can tell (hopefully!) it's of Gollum. The background was not working at all and I was very close to giving up but then I painted Gollum and he actually came out really well for me. I think this is one of the best things I have done so far :P. Because I am pleased with it I decided to post it here. first one is with the background, the second just Gollum.

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Tuesday, 22 April 2014

Robo bean drawing from Proko's videos along with 60 second gesture drawings

Hello everyone, haven't posted anything in too long so just something I have been practising over the last few days to improve my figure drawing and anatomy skills. Not the most interesting of images ever but it has to be done, about 6-7 hours of work. Also a quick colour study from photo reference taken from http://stefangrosjean.deviantart.com/ with permission.
I didn't spend too long on it hence why it looks pretty bad, but I am posting it anyway, we will call it a 'colour sketch' lol. see images below.

Wednesday, 26 March 2014

Value portrait of model

I decided to do another black and white/ value portrait study from photo reference, I am not sure who the lady is to give credit to her, I just found the image on google and decided to give it a go, I changed it a little and to be honest my values were quite far off and it didn't look exactly like her. That being said it took me around 3 hours, maybe just over, which for me is super quick. Don't get me wrong it could do with a bit more work but I am still happy with it, especially the hair :)