COTM :F

^^So yeah... another Jazza's COTM :D

Do you know the legend of King Arthur? 

That one with the Arthur taking his legendary human, Excalibur, out of the stone?

Here's final pic:

And here's the full process: 

I'll update text part of a post in a few hours (or days)

So long

PS: I'll update the other COTM post as well :D simply forgot about that.

Post-study portrait practice

^^As simple as that

Last time I did some studies of the Joseph Christian Leyendecker.

That's what I've learned. I mean, that's some of what I've learned.

And, as always, here's the process:

quick sketch

Background colours. Also rearranged his eyes' 'tho it wasn't a good idea.

Broad paint strokes of a basic skin colours. Everything is close to red. His forehead and chin are slightly more yellow. Chin is also less saturated, which gives that greenish look.

Some further refinement. 

Leyendecker was designing his brush strokes on purpose with purpose. I'm just putting weird marks, roughly indicating where a skin stretches, makes wrinkles or the value changes. Like I don't know jack about how to managed that, but I don't think that's bad start...

Rimlights (everything is 100% better with rimlights :D, rimlights and sunbeams - that's what I've learned so far) and darkening background to make this young man pop out from the background a little bit more.

I decided that young man looks too young and my conception of "piece" changed over time, so I made his eyes smaller and a face longer. 

My friend told me I have no enough bloodies on my blog, so I changed his hair colour.

Then I refined it a bit more, put an American flag behind our hero, and called it done. 

The purpose of that was to check what I've learned from those studies. It's not an illustration. 

Keep that in mind when you're looking at it.

That's it.

So long

Monthly scraps - December 2016

Scraps - part... whatever

At the beginning of the month I was into perspective and all.

I grabbed a pencil and started constructing buildings and stuff. I was doing this for a week or so, and then I jumped into the Krita, and it didn't work out.

I mean I lost fate in my own brain activity after I shifted the bell tower in the wrong direction. Twice.

she's so hot she ain't need no worm clothes to fight a gang of penguins in snow blizzard... or something. 

embracing anime-ish vibe

I had no idea how to draw snakes, so I needed some "studies". More like visual notes really.

It wasn't suppose to look good. 

smoking -self-explanatory really

after Leyendecker studies I wanted to recap knowledge I acquired so I started this.

That's all for now,

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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.

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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.

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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