Sin City studies

Here are Sin City stills. Two quick ones and one long Bruce Willis portrait. His face is way harder to paint than I thought it would.

Moon Still Study

Yet another still study. This one ended up being almost 8 hours.

Process:

Final Result:

Movie Still Studies.

 Couple months ago, I started a Facebook group called StillPainted. (https://www.facebook.com/groups/StillPainted/)
Every week we vote for a movie and paint stills from it. The idea is simple. The process is fun and rewarding.
I was able to significantly improve my painting abilities since the start of this painting routine. Social aspect motivates and adds challenge to it. I will publish a longer post reflecting on my progress later on. For now, here are some of more successful studies.

Images are arranged in chronological order. Scroll down to get to the latest paintings.

A Tale of Two Sisters:

Pans' Labyrinth:

Hellboy:

30 min

6 hours

Fight Club:

30 mins

 6 hours

Lord of the Rings:

George Orwell value study.

This one took about 4 hours. I had to stop it before it took any longer.Even though I managed to capture the likeness and value pretty close, the speed needs to improve.

Here's a larger image and a reference.

Birdey_001

Did a quick 1.5 study of a bird.

Piranga Olicacea or Scarlet Tanager nests in deciduous and mixed woods - South of the boreal forests and  north of the southern pinewoods of US.

30 minutes value sketch

Did a quick value study based on a photo. These are elephants!

Life Drawing pt.1

Hello, blog!

Haven't post anything in a while. Life been busy and there's no free time for zbrush. But it's not an excuse to stop working on your craft. Been doing a lot of life drawing lately. Here's some of  it. Digital sketches are coming soon in part 2.

Gestures / 1 to 5 minutes:

Gestures / 5 to 10 minutes:

Sketches / 15 to 25 minutes:

This one took about 40 minutes. Same guy as above.