Monthly Scraps - July/August/September 2017

Scrappy batch from last few months. Enjoy (or don't... whatever man). 

These sketches are kind of inspired by what I was doing at the time - mostly watching films :D 

That's the one of the advantages of having two screens. 

I've no idea where these come from ^^

That on the other hand is a rip-off of the Yeseo - Million Things album cover. 

An album itself is 28 minutes long, and so was the painting process. 

Some action films and stuff.

That one I did while watching Pumping Iron. 

I don't like it one bit but hey - it's the Monthly Scraps series - that makes it the perfect place for all the trash.

Birdman again...

The last Samurai^^ Film was good. So good that I didn't feel like painting while watching so there's only rough storyboard like sketch.

Tnspired by some fantasy book and maybe a little bit by Lucifer TV show^^

One and only Pulp Fiction. Gosh - I love that film. 

I got kind of carried while painting Vincent and now he resembles Emhyr var Emreis more then Travolta...

Some random trash^^

I did some 3D stuff too, but I don't feel li9ke showing it yet. Maybe next time.

That's it,

So long.

Monthly scraps - February 2017

So yeah...

When it comes to unfinished stuff that month was dry.

I started the 14DC so I have less time for fucking around and even 'tho I've somehow menaged to produce some crap.

I don't know if I'll finish any of them at all.
I mean I've already saved like 10GB of not so big *.png-s. 

I like quite few of them as the ideas but I'll be able to pull them out as I see them in my mind maybe in 1-2 years from now.

 I'll make 14DC summary after graduation or something. 

 If you want to see all the images I made for that challenge my Google+ profile is linked somewhere on the right side. Just scroll until you find it. 

 Also if you're curious what the 14DC is you can check it HERE. << won't hurt you but may help.

 That's it,

 So long

Monthly scraps - January 2017

Another first day of the month - another monthly scraps post.

That I want to finish, but it's hard :(

That I like less and less with every brush stroke I put. I was playing Mass Effect 2 and Illium happened. It's soooo moody place. I was like "imma paint it" but lost interest.

Don't like that piece. My anatomy is not good enough yet. 

And that I did for Jazza's COTM. I was struggling with legs, so I drew them separately.

I started to think more about making my process a bit easier lately.

I made that one sided brush (hard on one side, totally soft on the other) to make hard edges much quicker.

It allows me to focus more on real practice instead of messing up with edges. Of course I still have to refine them but it doesn't take as much time as painting them from scratch.

Now I can just zoom out and paint hints of form in quick and easy way :3 

It's not a biggie, but definitely helps a lot.

So yeah... some brush tests

That creeps me out :D

Some form studies

And an environment thumbnail sketch...

That's all for now,

So long

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

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

Monthly scraps - September 2016

I haven't been posting much this month but it doesn't mean I was totally unproductive. 

This month I put my effort mostly in my rendering skill, and effect of that you'll see in a few days from.

Beside that I was doodling around as always and trying to recover after some kind of flue I caught - and boy, that was hell of a job :D

I still have running nose, but it's much better than week ago and at least I can think straight.

And here you got a bunch of scraps:

^^That one has some potential 

^^here I like colours

^^these are so bad I don't even...

^^that fella you'll see later. He wasn't soppose to be Geralt at the beging be he ended up as such

That's all,

So long