Sometimes when I’m looking at other artists’ wips I’m amazed at how the sketch and each step that follows on the way to a completed painting looks like a completely logical and natural step from the previous. My paintings often take a more meandering path, which I’m going to share here as both an example of […]
Monthly Archives: February 2014
Armada Wip 03
Continuing from where I left off last time, here’s some progress on Armada 2014: In this 40-minute or so painting session I added the rockmilk rig (I think it’s called the Sorghum in the book) and a ton of teeny little ship details. It’s looking pretty good shrunken down, but if you get up close […]
Tenth Doctor fan art painting steps & progress
You know what the world needs? Another rabid Doctor Who fangirl! (And another piece of Doctor Who fan art while we’re at it.) Click this series of progress shots to view it much larger – I guarantee it’s sketchier and rougher looking at actual size than appears in its shrunken down form below: Here’s the […]
Armada 2014 ~ Wips 01 and 02
Continuing right along in my “let’s repaint old stuff” kick, here’s my 2007 version of Armada: Painting all those boats was both fun and time consuming. I spent easily 12+ hours on this, just picking at detail. But the lighting has always felt too stylized to really call this one of my best works. Well, […]
9 years of my “Astrid” painting tradition
My new year / winter tradition is to paint a new picture of Astrid, a character of mine who wears big fluffy dresses and has big fluffy hair. She’s pretty fun to paint. Oh, and she has a pet dragon. This year’s will be #10. It’s pretty cool to think that I’ve managed to continue […]
Demon Breeder revamp wips
A year and a half ago I made this painting of a made up character called the demon breeder. (Those are her pet demons :)) I like it well enough, but it’s not my best work. So I thought I might have fun improving it. I saved a new version and started doing little touch […]
Salmon run wip 02
More progress on “Salmon Run”! I worked on a few different paintings today, but most of my time went into “Salmon Run”, which I’m painting in Photoshop CS6. This is where we left off last time: And here’s where I left off today: This is the long, sometimes tedious stretch of a painting’s development. […]
Watch me paint: Red Riding Hood WIP 10
It’s been over week since I last worked on Red Riding Hood, but I’m pleased with my recent progress: New things: Better arm pose Basket Sword (NOW it feels like one of my artworks, lol) More progress on wolf positions (but I’m not sure they’re a complete improvement over the sketch, I think more work is needed […]
Painting technique: roughed in thumbnail
Here’s a thumbnail of a painting I spent about 30 minutes on this morning: Looks kind of done, doesn’t it? Nah, it’s nowhere near done. 😀 Here it is closer up: It’s pretty rough. But everything is there. The light source, the dark parts, the light parts, an understanding of the colors, and the […]
Proof that I paint the same face over and over…
Fun with Google’s face-recognition algorithm: I dumped my entire portfolio of art into Google+‘s photo upload. When it was done uploading, it identified similarities, lumped ’em together and asked me to tag people. LOL – at least I’m consistent! On the bright side, there were some unique ones in the bunch: