Friday 30 April 2010


My Gnomon 2d competition entry for the theme 'esgeroth'

Friday 23 April 2010

orc romance


This image of an orc trying to seduce someone came into my head... I had to get it out of there quick... here is the result!

Wednesday 21 April 2010

portrait


This is a portrait of a boy I saw in someones holiday photos... I think from morocco someplace. I liked his expression :)

monster...


I made this out of a frame of an advert I am working on.... just a bit of silly fun.

Tuesday 20 April 2010

tai chi forest


Where id love to be... :)

Got to work on my composition.... quite lacking. :P

Monday 19 April 2010

jack sparrow study


Another portrait study from a photo... Think im going to start studying from life more... feels like im not thinking in faces/planes enough.

Sunday 18 April 2010

Another forest...

Injured in a forest, sheltering by some rocks...

Friday 16 April 2010

more studies...




I have another few paintings but I havent quite finished them so I will wait till I have.

Friday 9 April 2010

Speedy


A quick speedy trying to bring together some of the value key and texture brush learning iv been doing...

Value Keys


I have been trying to get my head around High/mid/low key value ranges and how a photo/reference can be interpreted and simplified into one of these three ranges... its so powerful as without them its hard to contrll all the incredible range of values in a landscape. Too many values can be messy if they dont live in the right heirarchy and this really helps set that up at the start of a painting!

Thursday 8 April 2010

BW Landscape


I have been wanting to get textures into my painting for a very long time, but I always ended up just painting with a simple brush. That has allowed me to get better at just painting, but now, after being very much inspired by this guy: http://maciejkuciara.blogspot.com/I am starting to get back into textures... I even re-made a large portion of my brushes.

Anyway, here is my first BW painting using this more textural approach... I feel like its a bit of a turning point/breakthrough towards where I want to be.

Thursday 1 April 2010

Anders Zorn Study


Here is a study I did of an Anders Zorn Painting... I love his brushstrokes... so good.