Studies and Other Things

Hey everyone!
It's been a long time since a last post, and the reason for that is that I have got a job at an awesome little company called Ninja Kiwi in Auckland! So, I've been pretty busy moving and adjusting to a big shift in my life - but a really welcome and fantastic one I must say!

I've been drawing a lot, but only now have I really thought to put them up here, now I'm getting more settled in. :)

So, here they are! Some are a little older but most are very recent. Enjoy and as always, thanks for reading and watching!

Four Planets

My last picture from the concept design workshop a set of four different 'planets' or environments. I drew this picture when Robh Ruppel was speaking to us about the way he paints environments and I feel that I gained a lot from listening to him speak and show the way that he worked.

Overall, I found the workshop a really useful thing for me to go to (for those that haven't read any of my previous posts, I was fortunate enough to attend a Concept Design Workshop in Wellington in September) and I felt that I learned a lot, and it gave me the confidence to find my own way of doings things without worrying too much about linear paths in order to get to the job that I want.

It showed me that everyone had a different way of getting into the industry, but the thing that everyone had in common was that they all worked damn hard, and so I am trying to push myself even more now- trying to learn new programmes, techniques and different ways of approaching things in order to further myself as an artist.

So, it was a very good time for me I feel. And even though self doubt is always there, I feel like it's a natural part of it now- so it's not something to be afraid of. It helps me to push myself more and keep striving to be better!

Well, that's all for now!

Thanks for reading,

Hope to see you back soon! :)

Day Five

So this was the last official picture I did for the workshop :) I did another picture on the following day with Robh Ruppel but I didn't finish it, so I didn't think there was much point putting it up here.
I will write up about it soon- including some awesome advice that I picked up from the various artists at the workshop. Very exciting stuff! :)

Speed painting and new accounts

Two posts in as many days? Well, I'll be darned!

Another speed paint! This time it's another landscape and it's of the Rice Terraces in Banaue (I assume that's spelt correctly). I've never been here but that's one of the wonders of the internet isn't it?

 I discovered it while I was trundling through Tumblr yesterday, so I figured I may as well go and paint the thing.

As you have probably gathered, (nice segue there right?) I have just set up a Tumblr account. So why not take a peak? It's brand new at the moment but I guarantee more stuff is coming soon :).


Click here for my Tumblr!

Well thanks for reading everyone, catch you later! :)

And finally pictures!

 Ok, these are some silhouettes that I have done over the last couple of weeks (some more detailed than others) including some mecha-design and some instant recognition silhouettes (like the smoking/ sheriff dude up the top).

This is all the sort of stuff that I have been learning at the concept art workshop on Wednesday nights, and now I have a large enough collection to put up on here. And I stuck the three concepts of the girl in again because I felt like it fit in with everything else (as I did this on the course as well!). Huzah!

If you click on the picture you should be able to make it the actual size which is quite a bit larger. So do that if you're craving more details!

And these are my perspective drawings. I've really been trying to practice this skill a lot because I'm not especially good at it, so it has been challenging, but a whole heap of fun (especially when the picture actually turns out how you were expecting/ wanting!).

So I've got to keep practicing and trucking on with all my drawings. I also have a bunch of hand drawings that I will scan in sometime and stick up on here as well.

Ok! That's all for now! Thanks for stopping by :)

Speed painting update

Hey guys! I haven't been on in a while because of all sorts of things happening in real life. But they are good things, and things are very exciting! I thought I would just update with a speed painting that I did today in the mean time. I'm trying to do so many different things at once, as usual, but some things are slipping by the way-side.

BUT ANYWAY! Here is the speed painting! Enjoy and hopefully soon I can do some proper updates with some other stuff :)

Speed painting of sorts

This was my first speed painting without reference! I had a lot of fun palying around with the colours and I tried to get some depth into this image... I find that hard sometimes... I also tried to play around with some of the leading lines and the general composition of this piece and I added the person for a little bit of interest and to add more of a focus for the picture. Done on CS5 as per usual. And now I'm keen to do more of this sort of thing!

Desert Scene

Daily (or so) speed paint. This one is pretty bad :x But I thought that I would upload anyway, get some fresh stuff up here as well. Tried out some different things as well with some new brushes and I'm not too sure about them, but hey I'll keep experimenting!
Stock photo was found here.

More Speedy Paintings

... But this time it was less speedy. This one took me about an hour, because I slowed down and tried to focus more on painting techniques and things. I played around a bit with various ways of doing things, but I only used 3 brushes in total and it was all done on one layer.

Going to try and do these as often as possible as I feel like I'm learning a lot from doing them.

Speed Painting

Just a quick upload of my speed painting that I did today just to get some practice in. As you can probably tell I have greatly fallen out of practice...

Took about 15-20 minutes in CS5. I'm going to try and make this a regular occurence, and I will upload them when I do them. Ohhhh I have so much to learn...

Oh! And the picture was drawn from a reference which can be found here.