Orange Crush

Todays daily sketch. Orange Crush

Purple Dream

Cgtalk daily sketch topic.

self portrait: jack kirby style

daily sketch topic again. This time self portrait in style of Jack Kirby, famous comic book artist. Those lines were really hard to mimic...

Ice storm

20 - 30minutes.

Hot Rod pick up.

I heard some good ol`rockabilly from youtube and I had feeling to draw cool hotrod. Haven`t painted cars for long time.. Used perspective aid again. I still have huge problem with wheels... the tires are super mega hard to paint for me. I think this time, i will try to crush that problem. Maybe tomorrow I will practice more perspective and only make tires. Maybe modeling simple tire with Blender and render that in many different positions and paint those...

Fifteen men and a bottle of rum!

Todays cgtalk sketch topic: Pirate and the princess! It took may like 1.5h.. I just couldnt stop. My initial idea was just main simple blocky sketch with less than 30minutes..

Here is the starting point. Started with 2 point perspective and made really "blocky" box characters to get mostly correct perspective and character pose. 

Wacom pen holder and mr. Rana

while I was thinking what to paint I noticed my beloved Wacom Intuos 3 has the pen holder just like the basic form of Cylinder and has nice reflections.. So I dedicatd to paint it.. also the pen and the frog behind it :D

More Fundamentals: Basic Geometry, perspective and cast shadow.

Now without blender... that cast shadow thing is bit hard still, I never really did that. Now when I about basic stuff from internet. It all seems to have similar things. You should nail perspective, anatomy, values and such.. I never really did that.

I left the perspective lines and cast shadow guides just to show what I was doing.

Practising on Fundamentals: Basic geometry

Today I took blender on use. I feel that all painting books have something with Geometry practise. I didnt have any real geometry blocks (and im lazy to build any) so I used blender to aid me with those cubes and cylinders... maybe not the best solution, because it would be better to sketch from real life (that what I understood) to get the form and three dimensional to your painting / sketches.
But anyway I had to learn how to assign materials to objects and learn basics of rendering with Blender. So I had kind of two flies with only one hit... Maybe I will use paper and make some of those blocks and next time draw from real objects.

Render2

First render with Blender 2.6

 Here is my digital sketch from it,, around 5minutes spend on doodle.

 And color pencil sketch too...  I still suck pretty much :D

Practising on Fundamentals: Perspective!

I really really really have to start learning all the really basics. I was watching again youtube videos and the artist in those videos, Feng Zhu couldnt stress more about the importants of the basic fundamentals. 


I will seriesly start practicising all about basics.. that should improve my art skills in everything.
Today I started just a little by reading and paint about perspective...

First sketch is 1 point perspective practise and other is for daily sketch topic about "the rising of the black flag".. didnt have any idea about what to draw and I just made two point perspective and it came up as a some sort of city.

More color pencil drawing.

One of my short time goals was last year to finish Jose Parramons Color pencil book before end of the year. Well.. that one I failed but now I am back again to finish this book. I did read this book before and made all the practices, but I havent used color pencils for.. many many years so I kind of forgot the art.

Im actually happy, that once you learned these and also forget.. its actually really easy to re-learn. After few days of sketching I am almost same level I was 6 years ago.

Here is my try of one practice in the book. Its about Park Güell in Barcelona. I used slighty different photo that is in the Book. Google image search is a nice tool!

The Right Hand of Evil (The greedy banker) :P

Cgtalk topic topic The Right Hand of Evil.. and I dedicated to paint evil banker... maybe influenced from the crisis.

Giant in the forest

hum.. made new brushes from photos what I took when I was walking.. painted a forest with those.. then giant.. but I still need to improve in perspective, characters and total values.

Color Pencil Caricature

I saw and old guys face in news paper and he had so strong characteristic face and smile in it I had to make a color pencil sketch from it.. little bit caricature style of course :)

Red Queen and idea for improving in character painting.

Today I had "bad painting"-day :) I couldnt finish anything that I could satisfacted.

I was walking today to get motivations for future paintings and I was thinking how to improve more. I really need to start practising just characters. I was planning for next month (February) to dedicate for character painting. I will take some amount of characters that I have to finish until the end of the month. I was thinking something like 100 characters... so 28 days / 100 = 3.5 characters everyday. Also I will look lots of material to study every subject little. Ofcourse in one month I wont be pro in anatomy but still I think I could improve a lot in the whole field... lets see that in February.. 

Now here is my todays daily sketch.. Red queen... First one was total failure and I dont even like the one I made after. In the second I even tried to save the painting using some photos and making texture with those... I really really need to start studying the basics. That`s why I am now sketching traditionally with color pencils...

Matte painting practices and character blocking.

Today I got motivated to watch FZD School of Design`s youtube Videos.. they are really amazing resource.. you should check them out.. 

Here is what I made after watching some of those videos. 

Character blocking.. Really good and easy way to create characters. I was lazy and only did the profiles.

 Here is what I made after watching 1h of matte painting video... hehe I am really bad of this stuff still

 I think this is little bit better. I should still practice more perspective and more basics stuff....

they call him "The TANK"

today I tried more sprite.. style.. or.. something.. hehe I am totally noob in this style... 25minutes spend on this.

The Last Day

The Last Day

Now I got same amount of posts here than I had my older blog fifties-painting.blogspot.com
Which is now few years old and had every year around 18 posts only. :)
I hope I can keep faster speed with this blog and make a new post everyday for at least one year! Lets see what happens :)

The snow of kilimanjaro!

Cgtalk daily sketch: The Snow Of Kilimanjaro!

Hmm I think I am getting step by step to my goal. I always wanted to make paintings that have some sort of story inside. Nothing too complex. My plans now have been to improve my ability to paint characters and sceneries. I think with this sketch / painting I nailed something right. Still I have lot to improve but I am happy about todays results...

Cantina Brothers!

Today topic was make a minor character film poster.. so I made about Cantina band.. and mixed the idea with blues brothers.

Kingdom of xanadu(?)

hehe I had no idea what todays topic ment. So I just painted some storm castle.. fire..thing...

Me (yeti) and brother wolf

Cgtalk daily sketch. Me and brother wolf (no idea what it ment) but I drew Yeti and wolf puppy. Fur is actually very hard to paint, also hair is very hard to do...

More 2d game art practice. 2d mountains!

This time I was painting mountains. I got this project in my mind to make with Unity3d game engine. I want to make a simple game 2d. Would be nice project for me. Would keep me painting, modeling and also programming. All those things I would like to learn better.. maybe in future I have something to show also in here, playable hopefully. This is nothing fancy but still im not much an programmer. Yesterday I got my clouds moving in the background at Unity3d. I didnt even need any help from other scripts... one step at the time :)

Red Sonya`s last stand.

Blocking walking people.

After last sketch I noticed I got hard time for blocking/painting even simple characters fast. So.. I spend now half and hour blocking and sketching simple walking people. Google image search is nice tool. In first image I used only about 10-30 seconds for sketching. For second Image i used little more time but not too much.

I think this is good way to learn. Just use few seconds, or max few minutes each. You will fastly start to get the main shapes and correct proportions. After you get those basics correct, its easier to start doing details and making your own characters from scratch.

Hell`s last stand!

30 - 40 minutes, painted with photoshop.

2d game environment art

Just for fun this 2d game art. It was actually harder than I thought but practice makes perfect.

More Flash Gordon sketches. Air sledge

I was trying to more some kind of vehicle sketching.. this time "air sledge".. or something :D

Flash Gordon Nascent City

Here is my environment sketch for flash gordon entry. Nascent City!

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Cgtalk dailysketch: Every girl is a princess

Daily sketch every girl is a princess

Matte painting try and daily sketch.

Cgtalk Big gun topic!

I wanted to make an funny face.. so I tried to paint baby-face. Thats how I got idea for the big gun topic.

I was spain for almost 1 month and Ronda had this Lord of the ring feeling so I had to try make matte-painting from some of my photos. 

here is the original photo, the plate.

Cgtalk dailysketch: 1st day of 2013

Back from holidays. Time to start sketching / painting again. Cgtalk topic again.