Monthly Archives: September 2009

Three-day weekend!!! Yay! Tons of time for painting, hooray!!! Plenty to do still, but it’s moving along.

The result of the last few evenings of work on it. Things that bug me about it…-The lighting in general. Lighting is the bane of everything I paint.-The dudes’ faces. Guy faces are so difficult for me, so I want to keep polishing these until they really are great.-The clutter in the right-hand corner-The dudes […]

Aiming to get it “feature complete” before October, so I can spend the rest of my time on it just finishing things and tightening it up. It’s come a looong way, but it’s still got a lot to do.

This represents the last several days of progress. Save for a few more figures added to the ground, this painting is nearing “feature complete” – to borrow a term from my work as a game developer. After that, it’s all detail work, fine tuning, and adjusting things until I’m happy with it. I’ve never spent […]

This weekend was utterly fantastic – I haven’t packed this much painting into a 72 hour time period in at least a few years. Ahhhhhhh. 🙂 I’m really happy with where this painting is going. It’s my biggest ever (by far) and I think it’ll be something to be proud of for years once it’s […]

I spent most of August pampering my new betta and traveling to Illinois to spend a week there. But now I’m back on track and working on this some more! Definitely the biggest painting I’ve ever tackled. Biggest changes this time around are: the dudes at left are more refined, and I added Jorah Mormont […]