December 13, 2015
This was an experiment, I had little idea of what I was going to achieve except some kind of creature. About half way through I decided to export into a program which I massively stretched and distorted the image, this was my first foray into exporting to an external program to cover the functions that ArtRage doesn't have.
December 9, 2015
A commission which I did for one of my dad's friends and printed on canvas. The soft palette knife was used extensively to pull out a lot of the hair.
November 22, 2015
I had an idea to adapt some reference of a cow I took from my parents and to create a Minotaur type character.
November 15, 2015
Trying more experiments with the technique of starting from a black background and then using a harder airbrush to build up the tones using pressure sensitivity. As it turned out it ended up looking like my dad!
November 14, 2015
I am currently watching Orphan Black and created this very much pastel based portrait.
October 27, 2015
Experimenting with the paint tube after watching a tutorial demonstrating how to create atmospheric clouds and then the palette knife to smear the paint around in a haphazard fashion.
October 23, 2015
Something fun and made up based on playing around with the sticker spray. I thought I would use a digital art trick on copy and reflecting the foreground character to simulate a floor reflection and applied the background as a kind of disco light using the radial bucket tool
October 19, 2015
I started with a shape and then with a lot of colour formed some neon fish like creature.
October 13, 2015
I wasn't too happy with how this portrait was turning out so I overlaid an overlay layer of texture. In the end face looks like some delicious ice cream.
October 11, 2015
This was a commission for my mum for her work. Went for a much more illustrative look and start off with the ink pen with some smoothing and then tried to keep a watercolour like approach.
September 30, 2015
I decided to start this off using a fur sticker spray brush to form the basis of the painting and then to overlay some oil painting on top.
September 26, 2015
Wanted to take a different approach in to start with a black background and use the airbrush in a harder mode with pressure sensitivity to generate a more subtle variation.
September 24, 2015
Started again with the harder airbrush, applied a little texture and some extreme blending.
September 9, 2015
For this painting I started with the paint tube to apply some shape and then smudged around until a weird face started to emerge.
September 9, 2015
Again an experiment and mainly with blend layers to produce a horror portrait, note that there were definitely no shark references used for this one!
September 9, 2015
I started off with the airbrush to create a very digital cute face and then randomly applied some things, this was very experimental, and I was just having quite a lot of fun!
