"Gobleen"

Been working on this on and off for the last 2 weeks or so, happy with how it came out. The basic model was based on a 3D model (here) which is copyright to Filipe Lopes.

I deviated a little from the original design, and I actually feel like these are the best parts of the image.

I plan to do a few more things like this...hopefully a little faster next time.

"Gobleen" WIP

Been working on this on and off for the past week or so. It's a value study based a on a 3d model. (C) Filipe Lopes

Goblin speed paint thing

A quick 30 minute type sketch thing just playing around with colour and value. I actually learned a lot in these 30 minutes.

Reddit Sketch "Organification"

Theme: "Lets see what various vehicles would look like if they were organic."

Day 26 - Something you don't like:

Tile shops.

This may seem like a particularly random thing not to like...but it feels like a lot of my childhood was spent being dragged round tile shops. In reality it was probably just two hours one weekend, but there is a strange dilation of time that occurs in the forsaken grounds of a tile shop, stretching a minute to an eternity.

Go Figure

Been trying to do a lot of anatomy based stuff. These are a few examples of some of the basic sketches I've done. Goal is to be able to realistically draw the human body / head in as many poses / angles as possible.

30 Day Drawing Challenge - Day 25 - Scenery

Day 25 - Scenery:

Tried to come up with some alien landscape...didn't turn out great.

30 Day "Drawing" Challenge - Day 24 - A couple

Day 24 - A couple:

I got a bit lazy with today's challenge, but it's mostly because I'm too busy working on other stuff that holds higher priority. Plus I wanted to try a bit of simple graffiti style writing. So today is ... a writing challenge?

In case you can't read it... it's Salt and Pepper.

WIP "Gobleen"

This is based on a fantastic 3d model I found via google image search...the original author is Filipe Lopes.

30 Day Drawing Challenge - Day 23 - Something You Need

Day 23 - Something You Need:

Could really do with a new briefcase.

Still life

Trying to develop my ability to recognise light through tonal study.

Work In Progress - Still Life

Speed Paint - 14-9-2012

20 mins. No improvement yet...

30 Day Drawing Challenge - Day 22 - Something You Miss

Day 22 - Something You Miss:

Lifting.
(It's supposed to be a rusted plate)

Speed Paint - 13-9-2012

This ended up really frustrating me at first, I think I restarted it three or four times. The purple/blue triangle shapes in the sky are supposed to be Aurora Borealis.This end result is 22 minutes long...you can see a capture here.

"If you can't do it well - do it abstract" - me.

Also I completely forgot about the 30 day drawing challenge today...I shall catch up tomorrow.

Speed Paint - 12-9-2012

20 mins...not great. Screen capture here.

Speed Paint - 11-9-2012

30 mins -
Video of me doing it here.

30 Day Drawing Challenge - Day 21 - Something you want

Day 21 - Something you want:

A cat or kitten.

Colours sourced from photograph - 40 minutes-ish.

30 Day Drawing Challenge - Day 20 - Something Orange

 

Day 20 - Something Orange:

Admittedly I drew this without thinking about the challenge...but it's orange, so hey, why not.

Got inspired by a random photograph. I think it's a character from Assasin's Creed.

Speed Paints - 8-10th September

Above is a collection of some of the studies I have done over the past few days.
All images are based on source photography.

From top to bottom:

[1] Dark Forest - 40 minutes
[2] Green Hill - 20 minutes
[3] Autumn - 20 minutes
[4] Snow Hill - 20 minutes
[5] Mountains - 20 minutes
[6] Jungle Valley - 40 minutes

For the most I am staying within 20 minutes, but I'm still hovering around 30-40 minutes to 'complete' a picture. 20 minutes still feels a little too fast at the moment.

Below are the later 3 in a bit more detail:

I also recorded the last one, which you can see ... here.

30 Day Drawing Challenge - Day 19 - Something New

Day 19 - Something New:

Pretty unusual style for me. Colour scheme is not very together.

Speed Paint

#1:

20 minutes.

pretty baddd today.

I also recorded this one, it's pretty useful to see where stuff went wrong / how it can be improved upon...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmOEDgS4aSc&feature=g-upl

Speed Paints - 8-9-2012

#1 - 54 mins:

#2 - 40 mins:

Trying to keep these within 20 minutes but it is hard! Like how #1 turned out, I think #2 could have been better if I worked on it longer but decided to draw the line at 40 mins.

...more tomorrow

Speed Paints

#1 - 20 mins

#2 - 20 mins

 #2  I used colours sourced from photo.

I'm trying to like 3 or 4 of these a day...they can be quite fun when they're going well.

30 Day Drawing Challenge - Day 18 - Just a Doodle

Day 18 - Just a doodle:

Doodled, coloured. Didn't like the colours so put a gradient map over it.

30 Day Drawing Challenge - Day 17 - Favourite Plant

Day 17 - Favourite Plant:

I don't really have a favourite plant but water lilies are pretty cool.
Quite glad with how this turned out, about 20-30 mins, very hard to motivate myself to do this at first but I'm glad I did.

Speed painting - Ocean

"Hopefully when I do one tomorrow it will look a little better." - Me, yesterday.

Oh well. Maybe tomorrow then.

I actually spent 30 minutes of my life on this monstrosity. Where did it go wrong? I'm not even sure. The boat (that thing in the picture that doesn't look like a boat) needs to be completely redone. The ocean, the sky, aragagagh. Looks like a child's felt tip drawing that has been left out in the rain.

Did I learn anything?

If you try and do something and don't really put any effort in because you don't really want to do it - it's going to look bad.

Reddit sketch - "Living in space"

A very basic drawing. It's supposed to be a long corridor with monks sort of meditating - floating around in anti-gravity. I really liked the idea of a space station / temple. I think I will be coming back to this idea.

Reddit sketch - "Ridiculous Deity"

Suddha - the god of surfing. Buddha's second cousin.

Speed painting - Desert

40 mins, half made up / half source.

I also did another speed paint of a mountain / lake scene, but accidentally lost the file. So just this one today.
It's pretty frustrating doing these at the moment, because it's really hard to make something look good in a short amount of time.

Hopefully when I do one tomorrow it will look a little better. And so forth.