I'm not dead yet.

I wonder what made me post immediately. Could you Xia maybe have something to do with that? Hmmm...

It's time for a small update. Speedpainting Made these from last Monday to today. They suck, I know. None are finished. I'm tying to push the quality further each time, at least from now on. This technique relies on recognizing random shapes. I've tested the versatility and it's pretty good. However all the other stuff needs improving. Hopefully this will turn into something good.

It has been an interesting journey so far.

Rocks

50min practise on painting rocks and water

After feast

Freehand speedpaint

30min^^

Apostel

Crazy ppl worship a captured beast

Manta

it was supposed to be the Manta from Unreal tournament 3 but it looks like Xia's hoovercraft.
Not what I expected,but it's shiny!

Fading away

Another dead soldier

30min

Character Sketch- "Release"

A very quick sketch, nothing of special as you can see. No reference as usual... that's why I don't get in too much detail. Feel free to say what you think.... I like when others say their opinion!

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Peace!

Irena

Hey everyone! This is a sketch I'm work on, I got inspired from this book I'm reading called, "Pretty Birds" (Good read by the way!) Set during the Bosnian Civil War. It's about Irena a teenage girl who is caught in the middle of the war and volunteers to be a sniper- story in a nutshell.

Before I refine the sketch and proceed to digitally paint, does anybody see any technical problems with the drawing. I've come to a point where I see no problems even when I look at it after a couples of hours, it seems alright.

Thanx everyone.

The Awakening

This was really unplanned! I just started putting colors, formed a mountain and then this idea came in mind. I thaught of doing a rocky head of a creature raising from the earth! The birds should symbolize a disturbing environment.... anyways feel free to say your opinion! Keep in mind that I had no reference! :)


Peace!

Waaaah!!!

40min worked with one layer^^

Serious Moooooo

Another Tutorial^^ Tauren warrior is so cool!

Diaries of a DiveMaster V

Hurray and cheers for "Friday's". (a bar in Port Galib with working wireless)

Last week I was left in the dark with no internet because the
wireless in the hotels around the bay didn't work...

Anyway I now I have internet again and with it of course
comes the liberty to post an other few photo's of paradise.

Since I liked the last pictures I made of the place around
the staff house I went out again to make some more, here are a few:




This one I made at one of the pools of the hotels:


And for the wildlife:

A photo of the coral and some fish:


And for those of you who like them, some clownfish:


And my personal favorite:

Process

Process:

1. find some nice images, take them into Photoshop, lay them on top of each other. Change opacity and eventually the layer's blending mode. Flatten and use auto contrast. (scott robertson, andrew jones, craig mullins & more)
   
2. find shapes sampling colors from the image. Sketch it out. Rotated image for a more dynamic composition.
3. Continue.
4. Added foreground element and the sheep.
   
5. Changed sky. Gradient maps, overlay layers, soft light layers, photo filter, color/value adjstments.
   
6. Final touchup. unsharp mask, grain.
   

Productive Day ^^

Today was productive. Got a lot of work done...


These four and the one in my last post are images based off the Moses epic. CA.org's EOW #100.

The first two was started a while back, a week or so.

Temple of Ra:








Pharaoh's Palace:










The Promised Land:











The Burning Bush:

Another one :D

Took me a little more than an hour or something. I started it yesterday night and finished it now. This is fun!

Beauty

Cute or creepy?
20min

Fun

New sketch. Took me about 35 min.

Hit the sheets Tabby!

Again the green goddess graces the blog. This took awhile to finish, about 10 hours total, but in the back of my mind, I feel I haven't finished her yet. Oh by the way, Tabby started out as a sketch on the Nintendo NS (as you can see the example above). What should've done is create values ruffs to speed up development, I jumped the gun. Her tattoos are the pacman symbol. near the small of her back is the "Leo" birth rune, and on her arm is a tat I just made up.

Tiger Head - Watercolors

Here is a drawing I've been doing on paper using watercolors. Below is the first layer of color. It's not finished yet, I have to add some background and as you can see I've already sketched another tiger next to it... I'll have to color it!




Hope you like it!

Peace!

Guild Wars Wintersday 2008 Art Contest

It's time for Guild Wars Wintersday 2008 Art Contest. Who's going to participate?

http://www.guildwars.com/events/contests/wintersday2008/

Female Face - Portrait

Well finally I finished it! It took me more time than expected, but I believe it was worth it!
It wasn't my intention to go in very deep details but I got carried with the flow :)

Hope you'll like it.

P.S. On my blog there is the full process of it step by step! Below is the link:

http://luca-arts.blogspot.com/

Peace!

avl

more attempts at rendering female face

this probably the more better one

took me quite a while couple of hours,

but time flys when your drawing if you enjoy it.

GIRLY GIRL

more face rendering and seeing as it is

idrawgirls

might as well have a go at drawing girls