I wanted some art to hang up at work, the main issue I struggled with was to get the sub to fit in with the background, originally I had rendered it quite dark and with little texture but it didn't really seem to fit into my style so there was a lot of playing back and forth between GIMP and ArtRage to get this right and a little overlaying of the building from a partially completed piece to enhance the composition.

The finest suited vampire from The Originals.

The original was started on a Maddy stream, I tweaked the house a little to make it more interesting and added a spooky man wading through the water in the center (can you spot it?).

Using ArtRage and InfinitePainter on various Samsung drawing tablets.

Using InfinitePainter and ArtRage

Using a Samsung S6 Lite tablet and am finding the following bugs with the brush size

Using ArtRage and InfinitePainter on various drawing tablets

A quick demonstration of the new features on the new mobile ArtRage Vitae app!

Although there is a sub with high contrast in the foreground I wanted the eye to be drawn to the mountains. At the time I was watching quite a lot of Bob Ross so wanted that kind of rendering, I'm still not quite sure I got the colour of the sea as it may be a little too saturated, but it is good enough.

I really love the reference for this but wanted to change the original cool colours up so it reflected more of a northern mystical sunset. I utilised the deeper thicker paint of the oil brush in ArtRage to acheive some of the snow textures, the difficulty as is often the case with my paintings is getting the final result to be bright enough. I added some humans in the near background to add interest and imply that they are on some kind of exploratory mission.

Started on a Maddy stream and came together quite quickly, I was careful not to overdo the textures in the foreground and spent longer than I thought on rendering the sky, I wanted more af a focussed light but couldn't really get it to work.

A commission I did for someone at work, I don't often do white backgrounds but he was very insistent. It meant that I just had to blur and soften the edges just a little to unflatten the main protagonists. As you can tell they both look very similar and a little copy paste took place between the two.

A commision I did for someone at work, dogs of this furry variety are always fun as I can leverage the ArtRage palette knife, however it is essential not to render every hair and only focus on those parts of interest. The key to this portait was the background and one which I had already rendered seemed to fit in nicely with few changes and fix the dog firmly in space.

I was in the mood to start some animal portait and found a really good lamb reference, but as always I didn't really want to follow the reference too religiously and wanted my own spin.

Using ArtRage and InfinitePainter on various drawing tablets

Using ArtRage and InfinitePainter on various drawing tablets

Using ArtRage and InfinitePainter on various drawing tablets

Using ArtRage and InfinitePainter on various drawing tablets

Part of my girlfriends medical series, this time simply a hand holding some pills, the proportions of the fingers really took a long time to get right but fortunately I have the warp took for that, as part of this series I wanted to get consistency between each part of my artworks and in a way firmly grounded my art style.

Another from the medical series on paintings, another atypical piece in that here we have some bottles, with labels on them, more difficult to apply a twist and potentially to make it interesting.

The first portrait of my girlfriend with her tube!. My main aim here was to capture her beautiful personality and to define a new lighting setup, a dappling type of sunlight across the face. Unusually for a portrait the face is very cropped and it took me a while to get this balance spot on.

A continuation of my medical series, this time face on with my girlfriend. Quite a simple and quick portrait, but the more I look at it the more I like it, the skin tones are flatter that I normally render and I was content with little dynamic lighting and I liked the unfinished look.

This time a body part that isn't the face!, it is however a better part!

Another part of my girlfriends medical series in which we paint a common occurrence when one goes to a hospital in that a tube is put in your arm. An interesting challenge in technically this could be quite a boring painting, so I tried to add extra impact by focussing on texture.