Walking dead tribute - digital sketch comics

Here comes my comics experiment. I´ve created few digital sketches from the Walking dead series. Few really badass words placed in sketchy pictures... :)
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Digital sketch "Old hat"

Usually I have a rule - don´t draw/paint kids. It´s not because I have something against them, but mostly because it´s really hard work to catch the likeness and parents are always not satisfied :)

Anyway this is just another quick digital sketch with reference picture from our family album. 

I was experimenting with some brush settings and soft/hard edges, also a smudge tool, etc...

And, I have to say I like the result. Maybe it´s quite rough but that´s probably why I like it... :)

Took me less than 1 hour, used CS4 and Huion tablet... 

"Old hat"

Few traditional sketches from my sketchbook

I would like to share these three traditional sketches from my sketchbook, just to have some update.
Nothing fancy, just studies. Format usually smaller than A5.

Pencil study of some painting, checking for values and edges.

Quick portrait study from some photo reference, tempera colors used (just black/white)

Pencil study of some painting again.

Digital painting - "Rough beauty"

This digital painting was originally just some next portrait study, but I was continuously wondering how far I´m able to go. So I went through sketchy sketch into quite finished portrait then some more tweaks and here we go... :)  It´s still nothing really ultra cool :) but some progress is visible I hope...

Slightly inspired by Luis Royo and his art...

This girl doesn´r need any weapons, she´s rough and though enough just as she is... :)

Bellow you can see also some screens from the progress.

Painted with my Huion tablet, CS4, photo reference slightly used, and it took me two evenings...

"Rough beauty"

The progress pictures

Digital sketch - "Soft light"

Playing with colors/light and edges, trying to create some new fresh look. I´ve found really nice reference picture with sexy girl and started digital sketch. Took me two evenings,

Used my Huion tablet and CS4.

"Soft light"

WIP Steps

Quick digital sketch - "Red Passion"

Finally, some digital work with my tablet. Quick study sketch focused mainly on colors and edges. Nothing fancy, but at lease something... :)

Used some picture from internet as a reference.

Took me around 1 hour or so...

"Red passion"

The Apple, small Grapie and the Universe

Name of this picture came from my little daughter and it´s not translated very precisely. It started as just Apple still life study but ended like quite nice painting. I was inspired by oil still life paintings made by  David Cheifetz (see previous article ) It was quite challenging, It´s not easy to paint the same thing with tablet and with real paint... :) nothing new...:)

The most difficult stuff here was the foggy/smoke effect - I´m not very familiar with using a thinner/gel.

Acrylic paint on hardboard 25x30cm.

"The Apple, small Grapie and the Universe"

SOLD

Digital studies of "classic art"

I really like the painterly style of David Cheifetz so I´ve made few studies of his paintings. Not easy to fit the style, colors or the brush texture/work.

Anyway, it was fun and I would like to try it more often. Maybe also with my own still life and acrylics...will see...

Here comes my studies, half hour each....

Digital painting "Malvina"

Fuuuf, quite a lot of time since my last post...shame on me...I was busy with other stuff than painting, sadly...

So here is digital training sketch, just to check that the tablet is still working and to show that I´m not dead... :)

Used my Huion tablet, CS4 and some reference picture from internet

"Malvina"

Acrylic portrait - "Bohumil"

It´s been quite a long time from my last post. So here you can see result of my effort. I was working on a portrait of my friend´s grandfather. I was using a digital photo of an old black/white paper photography.

I was painting with acrylics on hard board 50x40 cm and it took me more than one month of work (not really the whole month, I was painting just for a while during some evenings).

It was really very challenging and exciting work - trying to find out right colors and investigation of blurred details in the reference picture... :)

I hope that this painting will be hanging on the wall for centuries... :) 

Bellow you can see the result and also gif with several stages of the work...

Comments and tips will be highly appreciated.

"Bohumil"

Progress