Few pictures before, during, after Christmas

Few recent pictures I was not able to put here earlier...

BW digital portrait study

Just playing with brushes and trying to achieve smooth look.

Digital sketch "Winter landscape"

Digital sketch created during Digital painting hangout session yesterday... kind of winter challenge, trying to focus on snow and how it interact with other colors ...
It was fun actually  :)

EDIT:  check my instagram :)
https://www.instagram.com/artofjaroslav/

Created with Huion tablet and CS4

Digital portrait sketch "Estas"

Digital portrait sketch of Estas Tonne based on some photo reference from internet. Just training purposes...

"Estas"

El Camaleon video

Here comes the promised video with recording of previous painting process...
No commentary this time, only speed up video with some music in background...

El camaleon

Here comes new traditional painting after quite long time, something more "serious"...:)
Created with acrylic paint on 30x40cm canvas, signed and varnished.
I was also experimenting with fluorescent paint, so the chameleon´s body is slightly shining in the dark. Unfortunately I was not able to make a picture of it, not sure how to setup the camera and the scene to make the glow visible... maybe later...

I was also recording the process of the work, so I would like to publish the new video with commentary soon.

"El Camaleon"

Used pigments

Quick sketch with acrylics "Bryle"

There was still remaining some acrylic paint on my palette so I've decided to use it for one quick and small portrait picture. Nothing fancy, just a sketch. I'm not sure why but I quite like the result... :)

"Bryle"

Digital sketch "Kufr"

Digital painting/sketch called "Kufr" which means Suitcase... :) created during digital painting hangout this week...

CS4 and Huion

"Kufr"

Game cover for "Draci hlidka"

HELLO after summer ! :)

I took a looong pause as I'm not able to paint and draw during summer time, mainly because of the heat...

But here comes something fresh new... Cover illustration for fantasy game called "Draci hlidka"... you can check the page here - www.dracihlidka.cz.

Created with CS4 and Huion tablet

Digital painting before holiday - Dream island

Digital painting created during hangout related to upcoming summer holidays - Dream island.
It was fun... you can see me fishing and drinking a rum in the background ... :)

"Dream island"

Digital portrait "Yana"

Just quick photo study before going to bed... took me less than 1 hour.
I would say that it is great reference picture...

CS4 and Huion tablet

"Yana"

Digital painting "Nadi" from hangout

Here comes something after a looong time again. Digital photo study created during recent digital painting hangout. it was fun and guys were giving me some tips for improvements...
Not perfect but I like the result...

This picture from DA used as an inspiration reference...

CS4 and Huion tablet

"Nadi"

Digital portrait "Greenee" from hangout

Digital portrait created during digital painting hangout. Quite decent result after quite a long time... :)
Maybe I was not so tired and it was fun...

You can check also the recording...

"Greenee"

Digital portrait sketch BaW

Grayscale digital portrait sketch created during the recent hangout...
Some photoreference from pinterest used...

Acrylic painting "Andelicek" + video

My try to reproduce my previous digital painting with traditional way - acrylic colors...
I§m not very satisfied with the result, I was really trying to replicate the digital painting, but the light was quite issue. I know where the problem is but I don´t want to paint it again from scratch...

32 x 24 cm hardboard + acrylics

Process recorded and commentary in Czech language added...

"Andelicek"

"Gabriel" digital portrait

Hello, no update for quite a long time... to busy... so here comes digital portrait of Gabriel from The Walking dead.
Took me around 1,5 hour and there will be also time lapse video soon.... so stay tuned :)

Huion tablet + CS4

"Gabriel"

Digital painting "Brno"

I have new digital brushes imitating oil brushes ..:) so I just wanted to experiment with them and check how they will suite me... I choose photo reference of city where I live - Brno.  In the picture is quite famous modern big clock in the middle of square - some people hate it...:)

Anyway, I was playing with the new brushes and it was really cool...

Maybe, there will be some speedpaint video in the future as I was streaming the session and the recording is available...so maybe...:)

And one last thought - the perspective is right, obviously, but for my defense - the perspective in the original reference picture was also somehow weird... :)

  

"Mango" digital portrait from hangout

Digital portrait created during hangout session...I was trying the clean and smooth style...I call it "Chinese" style... :)
Maybe I´ll cut my peaces from the hangout record and will try to create a speed process video...

I was loosely using a photo reference from HERE

"Mango"