June 13, 2017
I really pushed the palette knife to blend the oil paint as much as possible and actually ended up blurring at the end for a softening effect, ideally I think I would have liked to have pushed the piece a little more but for the blending experiment, it did what I wanted.
June 10, 2017
A paint over from an old pastel drawing which is probably about 20 years old. From the scanned in picture I simply overlaid some paint and added a few effects, so gauge whether I have made some artistic progress.
June 8, 2017
I wasn't too happy with my original effort for this Game Of Thrones character, this time I wanted to blend better, but as it turned out I thought a better idea was to try and caricature the portrait with the help of the warp tool.
June 6, 2017
A paint over for a very old painting I probably did 30 years ago, taking the original acrylic and applying a digital sheen.
June 4, 2017
Another superhero and again I wanted to create my own version, so initially I collected a multitude of reference and then felt my way through the process.
May 28, 2017
Of course this is Game of Thrones and I always had in my mind to apply a texture brush to her face to represent the grey-scale. The portrait ended up in a more realistic fashion than I intended and I think in the end I got a little carried away with the multiply layer towards the end when I was more clearly defining the lighting, I would have liked to make her figure more pronounced and brighter.
May 26, 2017
Continuing my Game Of Thrones art binge I thought that rather than painting a character that exists on the TV show I would paint a character that only exists in the books. Ideally I think she would be mainly wearing a cowell and look more like the spirit of the future in the Christmas Carol.
May 23, 2017
A straightforward painting from reference, I would have liked to have worked a little long on this as I think I could have blended a little better and I don't think that the likeness is quite there.
May 21, 2017
This painting ended up being quite the experiment. I started off by mangling a manga portrait I had already completed using the Warp tool in ArtRage and figuring things out as I went and seeing what emerged.
May 20, 2017
A straightforward rendering of an eagle, I started with pastels but it seemed to hold me back a little in the final rendering and in the end I wasn't too happy with the final outcome.
May 18, 2017
I took a piece I had originally finished with the aim of turning it into something very weird using as much image manipulation as possible to see what I could come up with.
May 17, 2017
I decided to go fast and loose with a think oil brush and I left this piece fairly unfinished, and of course it is unusual for me to portrait in profile.
May 16, 2017
A paint over of one of the first digital paintings I ever did with ArtRage, as can be seen there are a lot of subtle improvements.
May 11, 2017
An obvious combination, I was asked by a work colleague to do my own version of Thanos, I had fun after I had rendered a basic Thanos head in then merging in some previous Darth art to achieve a combined look.
