Painting Backlog part 2: The Reckoning

Bonus, my first three figure paintings ever!

Painting Backlog part 1

With these daily paintings/sketches, I had the best of intentions. Tragically the beginning of the semester and an unexpected course load destroyed my effort and it was pretty much abandoned. However, I will say these helped me out a lot and I plan on picking it up again at the end of the semester and hopefully actually carrying through with it. Until then, here's the first half that never got posted.

This one is a bad head study of Analucia (Michelle Rodriguez) from Lost. I like the character and the actress, but I'm pretty ashamed of this painting. No where to go but up at this point I suppose.

I was becoming happy with my progress in Sai, but I felt like I should really be working in Photoshop since it's industry standard. Sai was abandoned and no one really uses it professionally, and Photoshop is alive and thriving. There's a lot of resources for it, and I felt I would be able to adapt my Sai skill set successfully to Photoshop. 

And then I did this. Without my favorite Sai brush, I was lost and in pain. I got a bunch of new brushes before this painting and it shows. So much shame. I resist the urge to flee back to the comfort of Sai.

The next day I happened to be looking at Bill Cone's blog. I loved his work and found it to be very inspiring. I loved the look of his pastels, so I tried painting in a way that resembled pastels. I actually kind of like this one, but I was sure it would be a style that wouldn't be particularly useful for creating pretty paintings.

I knew I just needed to find a go-to brush that I liked. This one sadly was it, but it wasn't too bad.

I tried making my Sai brush in Photoshop. Photoshop just can't replicate the awesomeness that was my brush, but this was kind of cool. To be continued.

Daily 26

Ref used

I was trying to paint brown in the background without using the color but it wasn't very successful. Probably should've started the painting with that in mind instead of deciding half way through. Oh well.

Dailies Backlog

It's been awhile since my last update. I started trying to be more experimental with my daily sketches. 

Daily #8
12/24/12
Candlelight

Daily #9
12/25/12
Dancer

I drew this for an art collaboration with Johnathan Apilado, but his identity was a secret because it was a Secret Santa thing. I decided to add value myself for fun and it turned into this.

Daily #10
12/26/12

I bored quit this one, then came back later and added some textures to try them out. I still don't particularly like it.

 Daily #11

12/27/12

Juliet

A portrait of Juliet from Lost. She was one of my favorite characters.

 Daily #12

12/28/12

Sun

 Portrait of Sun from Lost. Another favorite of mine. It was originally in color but I was struggling so much I decided to just focus on value.

 Daily #13

12/29/12

Moar Sugar!

For each lemon added to lemonade, you need at least one bag of sugar.

Daily #14

12/30/12

Character design for my character Kayah. I mostly went on memories of tribal clothing (generalization) and didn't really look anything up. She's from a tropical environment. She's usually nude, but I thought I'd design some "family friendly" clothes. Her clothes are more masculine than feminine because she's a hunter, so wearing a skirt would be impractical. The goal for her top was something functional that would support and restrain her breasts rather than arbitrary modesty. 

 Daily #15

12/31/12

Character design for my character Aesane. I was trying to incorporate elements from ancient Greece and Persia in her design. She's Kayah's foil. I was trying to use a similar silhouette to what she wore when I designed her as a teenager. Not sure if I want her shorts to fit better or be poofy. 

Daily #16
1/1/13

Started feeling a little insecure about my painting skills so I started painting environments from photos. I thought about posting my reference but I wasn't trying to copy them, so comparing them wouldn't be very productive.

Daily #17
1/2/13

Daily #18
1/3/13

Cool light/warm shadows is hard to pull off. 

Daily #19
1/4/13

A portrait from a photo. I don't know the model's name.

Daily #20
1/5/13
Ashley Spinelli

Little bit of fan art of an aged up Spinelli from Recess. Not sure where it came from.

Daily #21
1/6/13
Juliet

Another portrait of Lost's Juliet. I anted to try drawing her instead of painting.

Daily #22
1/7/13

Daily #23
1/8/13

Your Move

Your move, kitty cat!

Daily #24
1/9/13

I wanted to think more about lighting than local color, so I painted a forest lit by violet light.

Daily #25
1/10/13

I'd like to have an emotion/story in mind for these environments in the future. It's hard not to get bogged down in the technical aspects of painting and to remember story.

Daily #7

Daily #7

12/23/12

Fishbowl

Fishbowls don't work underwater.

Daily #6

Daily #6
12/22/12

Downpour

Get under my umbrella-ella-ella 'ey 'ey 'ey

Daily Sketches #1-5

At long last! An update! No school work yet, but I've started doing a "quick" sketch painting every day. Ideally I'd post them daily, and hopefully will for now on. But first, a still life of a fork and a spoon!

This is a fork and a spoon. Obviously, my crowning achievement in metallic rendering. 

 Daily #1
12/15/12

A child being attacked by a rainbow tentacle monster. Can't think of a better way to kick off this daily habit.

Daily #2 

12/18/12

Moonlit

My sister's character. I think her name is Epona. I think she has blue hair. Excellent work me!

Daily #3

12/19/12
Goaticorn

I can't draw horses. :(

Bonus conversation during this one:
Me: What color should the goat be?
BF: I think a whitish-brown tint...
Me: GREEN!
BF: Green? That's just silly!
Me:  You tell me to draw a goat with a horn and bird wings... and you draw the line at it being green?
BF: Yes! A green goat is ridiculous!

Daily #4
12/20/12

Fitcher's Feathered Bird

Inspired from a scene in "Fitcher's Bird", a Grimm fairytale.

Daily #5

12/21/12

Luminance

Epona again. This time I remembered her hair color. But I forgot I meant to give her something glowy.  This character is clearly cursed and should be avoided in the future.

Yeah, you may have noticed that there's a little bit of a gap between when I did the first daily and the second. And to that, I say shut up.