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

Cell-shaded 01 (not the most original title - but it's quite an accurate one)

After painting Geralt I wanted to paint something quickly. 

To make a speedpainting. To force all the knowledge I acquired during painting him out of my head. 

Basically I wanted to put my skill to the test - not to hard, but still a test.

I'm not the fastest man alive when it comes to rendering, so I limited myself to 3 hours. 

Technically it's not a real speedpainting (real one goes on for like 30 to 120 minutes), but it's fast enough for me.

Of course it wouldn't be challenging enough, so I decided to make it in a way I've never tried before. 

Cell-shading or Cel-shading it is.

I'm no quite sure which name is proper, 'cause both has some kind of logic behind them...

Cell - because shadow and lights are formed in some kind of cells;

Cel - because that kind of colouring is frequently used in animation, and cel itself is a semi-transparent sheet of paper used by animators (not exclusively), for redrawing frames in traditional animation (at least from what I know).

Any ways here's the end result:

And here you got entire process:

Entire process is like: 

-sketch, 

-flat colours, 

-shadows, 

-main light, 

-skylight, 

-speculars, 

-some smearing and soft round brush edge work,

-blur on the edges of the paining (to keep the focus just on her/his (didn't decide yet) face).

Things I like:

-shininess of her (already decided) jacket,

-colours,

-composition (simple shapes),

-process (relatively fast and simple).

Things I don't like:

-bottom part of her face,

-hair (too much noise, to low amount of actual details),

-sketchiness (for a given time it could be better),

I ended up roughly after 3,5 hours so I cheated a bit, and even 'tho the effect is not that good.

Speed is not my thing. Yet.

I mean most of the time I spent walking circles in my room and thinking what I want to eat for a dinner :D

Hope it helped (somewhat, I'm not sure how it possibly could :D),

So long