Digital painting "Sakura Princess" + hangout video

There was next hangout session yesterday evening, there were four active participants and we were doing digital study (quick painting) of the same reference photo - Sakura Princess.

It took 2 hours and it was fun all the way... :) We were talking Czech, but there was no "serious" discussion anyway,... so you can turn off the sound.. :)

Feel free to join our google group, so you will be notified/invited to next session... if you are interested...

You can check my result in the picture below, it is not super done, there are some details I would correct if I had more time.

"Sakura Princess" by Jaroslav

Digital painting "Dracula´s wife" + hangout video

I was organizing google hangout about digital painting with guys from forum. It was done in Czech but you can check the progress anyway. It took around 2 hours and it was really great fun and interesting experience to see and hear the others.

So feel free to briefly check the video, even without sound.

My result could be visible in the picture below. It is a digital portrait of Dracula´s wife from quite new movie "Dracula untold". The reference picture was a screenshot. I was trying to do it nice and colorful, it is not completely finished, as you can see there are missing some details. Maybe...I´ll finish it in the future...

If you have any tips about the topic for my next painting, feel free to give me a comment. I would like also to practice my English, so I can do next hangout with English commentary... :)
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 "Dracula´s wife"

Recorded hangout session (CZ)

Digital sketch practice "Red Beauty" + hangout video

Here is just next digital sketching session to keep me going... shared and recorded by the google hangout feature...no sound this time.
Enjoy

CS4, tablet Huion, photo reference and 1h30minutes

"Red Beauty"

Acrylic sketch "Blue Venice"

I was experimenting with new materials, technique and process. This sketch is painted on hard paper (cut from frozen pizza box :) ) 25x25cm which was covered with white gesso. 

It is completely painted by pallet knife using just 5 acrylic colors. My intent was to get more simplified impressionistic look. The biggest issue was the perspective (as usual).

I was using photo of Venice found in some journal as a reference. It took me around 2 hours and it was fun. I would like to continue in this sketching activity (still have some free pizza boxes :) )

 "Blue Venice"
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Digital painting "Rick" from Walking dead

Here comes next guy from Walking dead series - the main character"Rick". Though, brave, smart and definitely good guy.

I was starting this painting as a black and white study and planning to add color later. But I´ve decided not to use color at the end. You can see just a touch of red blood in the background...

Maybe you can notice also chromatic aberration effect,... just small experiment... :)

I took me two evenings, used Huion tablet, CS4 and screencap as a reference...

Comments are welcomed...

"Rick"

Digital painting "Balin" from Hobit + hangout

Here comes result of my weekend experiment - Digital painting on Google hangout. I was trying to check how the hangout works and challenge myself... :)

You can see the archived record on youtube bellow. I really enjoyed the whole thing and I would definitely try it again soon. I will announce it here, so everybody will be aware beforehand.

My commentary in English is really bad so this is something I have improve next time...:)

It took me around 1 hour, used CS4 and Huion tablet

 "Balin"

Quick digital sketch "B25 under fire"

Sometimes I need to focus also on something else than just portraits, this time my favouritte bomber B-25. Really quick sketch with several references. There´s also an enemy aircraft attacking in background...

Really not easy to paint this technical stuff for me, but I would say, that the results is not so bad... :)

Used CS4 and Huion tablet. It´s in quite high resolution, you can use it also as wallpaper if you like :)

"B25 under fire"

Quick digital sketch "Red cape"

I was practicing also portrait painting, so here you can see the quick digital sketch of nice and not completely naked girl ... :)
+ Recoreded video with the process. It is speed up several times and also end with final corrections and touches is missing.

It took me arround 1 hour and it´s quite messy and it is definitely NOT my masterpiece, I need to practice more... :)

CS4, Huion tablet and some photo reference...

"Red cape"

Digital painting "Glenn" from Walking dead

Here comes next fan art digital painting for Walking dead series (again) this time welcome Glenn !

I was trying to get more "finished" look, it took me not much more time than my usual digital sketches, but I had to focus on my brush work more. The result was a bit surprising even for me... :)

It looks quite realistic, but I swear that there was no photo tracing or some "cheating" techniques, maybe just a little bit of photoshop postprocessing like color adjustment, gradient mapping, noise addition, etc...

Took me around 2 hours, used CS4 and Huion tablet and screenshot from the Walking dead series...

No video this time...

Comments and tips for next character are welcomed.

"Glenn"

Digital sketch "Amy"

I´ve decided that I really need to practice more, so I´m trying to do these digital studies, filling my paper sketchbook and preparation of canvases for acrylic painting is in progress... :)

Here is the recent digital portrait sketch called Amy. Took me around 40 minutes or so and finally - I was recording video of the progress. Even now I see what could be done in different way, let´s hope that I will keep it in my mind during the next session... :) Most of all I don´t like the dark/almost black color on the skin...

Created in CS4 with my Huion tablet. This great photo was my inspiration...

"Amy"

Video with the progress