June 10, 2015
I started from a simple reference of a flower from below and wanted to use thick oil paint with extensive use of the palette knife. I thought it might be a good idea to add an edge, namely some kind of creature crawling up the stem!
May 31, 2015
I wanted to produce some epic art, a hero standing powerfully, as can be seen there was extensive use of the palette knife.
May 3, 2015
Having another go as Sansa as Sophie Turners face is very difficult to get right. I still am not satisfied as I think I pushed the red tones too much and should have applied a little more complimentary colour.
May 1, 2015
As you can see I went palette knife crazy, this originally started off with a standard portrait but it wasn't really working.
April 1, 2015
The ultimate dracula of course being Christopher Lee, all I knew for this portrait is that I wanted a splash of blood at the end using the ArtRage sticker spray.
March 30, 2015
Mainly using the pastel at the start to apply a little blending, playing around with the hard pastel as I have been struggling a little with getting mixing to work with the oil brush.
March 29, 2015
I am currently watching True Blood so I thought some fan art was in order. I tried to use the oil brush and the palette knife but I was struggling with the mixing colours become quite muddy, looking back I think I should have pushed the hue of the facial shadows.
March 29, 2015
Quite a quick and simple bird painting, managing to get the hang of the oil brush. Experimented with a gradient overlay to add extra drama.
March 28, 2015
I think it was more by luck than judgement that this ended turning out so well, I think I mainly learnt that the shadow areas can still have a good colour and hue to them rather than just being a dark grey, this really looks as though I have applied a real pastel to create this painting.
March 25, 2015
I wanted to start on a black background and very gradually build up the colours to have Arya just appearing from the shadows with half the face in the darkness. I wanted to focus on mainly using the airbrush as so far I have been struggling a little with the oil and achieving a nice blend of colours. In hindsight I think I would have liked to have made the face a little more pronounced and lighter.
March 23, 2015
Unusually for me this was more of a landscape and also featuring a piece of machinery, of course there is the geeky aspect to it.
March 21, 2015
A very straightforward reference copy using a hard pastel, although I think I could have pushed the beard a little more with the palette knife.
March 21, 2015
For a long time I was really struggling to find the idea for this painting but it was only when I exported to gimp and then applied a swirly filter that I really found what I was looking for.
March 17, 2015
More airbrush on a black background to form the foundation and then using the sticker spray in overlay mode to subtly apply texture, this reminds me of one of those aliens from the film The Explorers.
March 14, 2015
More airbrush to start the painting and I think with this one I finally figured out how to better integrate a texture using a multiply layer.
March 13, 2015
I really went to town with the fur brush here, possibly a little too much and in the end I think I would have done the colouring a little differently, maybe focussing more on a cooler lighting setup.
March 9, 2015
I grew up admiring the art of the Transformer comics and would try and reproduce it, this is some sort of homage, but with a twist, due to the eventual green colouring I thought I would make the mighty Galvatron a little hulk like!