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"

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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

Digital sketch "Backline"

I was inspired by several interesting tutorials about airbrushing methods with photoshop, so I´ve decided to give it a try. I was really surprised how quickly is possible to render human body with soft edges.

I will definitely practice it more.

The picture you can see below took me around 40minutes, some reference photo from internet was used.

It´s not perfect anatomy study, that´s for sure, but it was a first try and really like the result.

Next time I would like to record the process or some steps at least.

"Backline"

Older digital sketch "Destiny"

I´ve found one a bit older forgotten digital sketch on my HDD...nothing fancy. So, I´ve decided to post it here because a lack of new pieces...
I call it Destiny, don´t remember when, why and how I did this...

  "Destiny"

Some sketches

The weather is hot and it´s not easy to paint/draw for me. Here is some update after some time. Nothing fancy, just few shots from my sketchbook.

Portrait sketch of some girl from internet 

 Just doodling around, trying to find some inspiration

Sketch touched with tempera colors.

20minute digital sketch session

I was experimenting with video recording tools and I've recorded my quick digital sketching session. The video is sped up, original time was around 20 minutes, the result is not very presentable, but you can see the process.... and it was fun... :)

More videos with better quality (I hope) will follow..

  

Digital sketch with Kingdom of Heaven

I´ve got screenshot from one of my favorite movies - Kingdom of Heaven. It´s quite old film but nevermind. I really like the roughness and the way haw reality is presented.
Here comes the knight without armor...

CS4 + Huion tablet, one hour... maybe two, I´m not so sure, it wasn´t so quick as I originally tought... :)

Kingdom of Heaven sketch

Digital portrait "Anena"

Here comes a digital portrait after quite a long time. I was trying to use mostly just soft brush and sharpening tool (when needed). I would say, that I´m almost confident with gray values and need to work more with colors. And keep practicing with forms...

Even though I spent two evenings with this picture (around 4hours) details are not very detailed.. :)

Used some photo reference and my Huion tablet + CS4.

Enjoy  and feel free to comment

P.S. Don´t ask me from where the name came from...:)

  "Anena"