Masterstudies of Leyendecker

I did a studies of one of the Arrow Collar Man illustrations made by Joseph Christian Leyendecker. 

Not entire illustration 'tho. The full illustration shows 2 man sitting in a room. One of them is holding a golf club and the other one have smoking pipe in his hand - and that's how you'll find it.

I painted just a small piece of that.

I painted this small because I didn't want to focus on details.

All I was using is hard round and soft round brush.

When it comes to colours I have that problem they look fake so the goal was to learn how to make something look alive.

Another things I got hint of was how to outline things, how to do rim-lights, and how to make work with as few strokes as you can.

I mean I still know shit about all of that ^^, but now, at least, I know the direction.

That's it for now,

So long

Herbie, speedpainting | December 2016

Do you know that Herbie from those movies? like with that old Volkswagen Beetle? 

So I went into DrawCrawd and I saw that the challenge of the day is "cars".

My brain instantly popped out that transformer-Herbie kind of stuff... 

Like no thinking at all.

I sat my myself over the tablet and made use out of that.

And here's the process.

If you find yourself looking at a picture and thinking "that doesn't work, but it took me some time and I don't know if I can do that again so I won't scrap it" -

STOP

C'mon! You did that once, you'll be able to pull that out again and this time it'll take you even less time, because you know what mistakes to not make.

It's a speed paint made in one sitting. 

That's it.

So long

Shooting Target Knight

#HeroPetChallenge

Piece made for #HeroPetChallenge

Albert and his penguin Arthur... or something.

Oh boy, that was fun to draw :D

Here's full pic

and...

So yeah... I'm uploading process here now, and I'll update the text as soon as it's possible :D

So long

Self-portrait 2.0

Year ago I did  portrait studies. Everything was off. 

Now it's off, but slightly better.

I started by blocking out basic shapes like beard, eye sockets, beard, hair and beard.

Then on top of that I sketched indication of facial features, and then I looked into the mirror...

When you draw with pencil you don't have that luxury of moving and twisting, erasing and redrawing all these mistakes...

In digital drawing in the other hand it's not a problem, tho you may not have all the control over the line quality and precision that you have got with pencil.

Trade-offs...

Any way I figured out that I've fucked up the placement of facial features, so I just cut them of, moved where I needed them and then I started painting with colours.

The rest of the process is just softening edges that need to be soft, placing hard edges where you need them sharp, and continuous battle with dull, muddy colours.

During that process I was constantly checking my values in B&W mode. I know that at this point my values may be off but I don't want to push myself too hard. 

Just hard enough to progress. 

I don't want to put more effort into that than I've put a year ago either. 

I'm just using that entire self-portrait thing to evaluate my current level of painting skill. 

I'll try to make that an annual thing.

That's self-portrait potato from last year for a comparison

And here you can find entire process... If you want.

So long

Monthly Scraps - November 2016

This fella you know already. I spent too much time painting him and I'm not feeling this at all. 

Must have repainted him like 5-6 times and still It seems he'll be just another forever-on-hold project. 

That's my attempt on painting landscapes. I mean I wasn't really painting. These are just sketches with some colours underneath. Some really poorly chosen colours :D

I'll make that work eventually. Or I won't. Those are scraps so don't expect much.

And some skulls. I sketched them while watching short film made by Platige Image called "Operation Basilisk" so it took less then 17 minutes :D

Stuff is entirely in Polish but there are English subtitles (really well done subtitles). 

For these of you who don't know what the Platige is - where you've been all that time? 

I mean those guys made literally every good cinematic out there. 

Have you seen Ambition - short film with Littlefinger (don't remember his real name) related to Rosetta space mission?

Or maybe any cinematic trailer for Witcher.

Or perhaps Kingsglaive Final Fantasy XV that they made as a result of cooperation with Square Enix?

Or cinematic trailers for For Honor, WatchDogs 2, Total War: Warhammer, Prey, Cyberpunk 2077?

Or those short films that are so aesthetically cool I don't even...

Those are guys who are making Witcher related film that is supposed to come out in 2017. Not a shitty one like that pile of bullcrapp from early 2000... (<< that I linked for you to know what to not watch)

You want to know more - I linked everything. You're welcome. No need to thank me :D

Enough of fan-boying,

So long