Thursday, September 30, 2010
Speed Painting Sept 28th
Speed Painting from September 28th. One of the choices to choose from was a cartoon character, so I chose to do Mickey Mouse. Of course, I decided this halfway through the painting time, so he's not that great, but.... Here he is.
Tuesday, September 28, 2010
RAWR ~ Eye -Finished
Before
After
I had a few ideas of where I was going with this, but I decided to go on the eye in the darkness piece. As you can see, originally the piece has a blue background and I eventually wished for the scaled creature to be blue. However, I then decided that the eye itself would give off a glow in this darkness and there it is! One thing I'd like people to note when they are using darkness in their images is that darkness can be its own character. It doesn't have to be personified but most cases, darkness has a personality or a depth at which it reaches. It occupies it's own space. Also, if there is a light in your picture as well as an overwhelming darkness, the environment can't be lit too well and will usually be harsher than normal.
RAWR ~ Karakasa
For the speed painting today I did some karakasa in a house. I was going to add some trick-or-treaters later. I might change the layout a bit and make them looking through the window AT the trick-or-treaters instead.
Speedpaint
Today's speed paint. Alien Landscape, was going in a floating island kind of thing, based on a world I'm also making for my Alien Civ. Design class.
Project 1
Fantasy
My fantasy character, late because of my computer. Sorry :( She's really rough, but I found some awesome brushes to to the surroundings (the background and the rock in front of her )
Speed Paintings Backlog
I totally forgot to upload the castle speed paintings from a little while ago. The first one was done in MyPaint and the second one was done in Photoshop.
I also forgot to upload the chaos speed painting last week. :) Don't know why, but I saw a slightly demonic pumpkin with a bat sitting on top of its head in that little section of the chaos.
Project 1
My character is supposed to be an evil, plotting sort so I wanted the image to be very offsetting. To achieve this, I started an underpainting with a warm color and then decided to do his robes in a cool color to further upset the balance of how our minds perceive color. I knew his throne needed to have a spiky sort of ugliness and decided on an organic feel for maximum ugly. As I painted in the guy I made sure to let the underpainting show through. I did this in MyPaint and used different sizes of a flat brush for all my strokes. For the chair, I used this tree branch brush that's really realistic and a lot of fun to use.
Monday, September 27, 2010
Sunday, September 26, 2010
I finally finished it here is my Fantasy Character. His name is Jaque and he is a demon. He lives in a city and he his job is Mercenary. In his world Demons aren't common in cites for most of then are deemed unsophisticated by society. he stay hidden and only though with a lot of connections and a lot money can get a hold of him.
This is the first time I have done city let alone a t night. He is standing sideways on a building so I tried to make it look like that. Again my painting techniques are simple, brush tool, smudge tool and layers.
Saturday, September 25, 2010
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Fantasy Jewel Complete
Finished up the flourishes on the frame and added a simple drop shadow to help it pop out
Friday, September 24, 2010
Thursday, September 23, 2010
Jedi from Alderaan, Project 1
I am currently working on some game projects and decided to use the character that I have created in writing for the character painting. I started with the background and made it into kind of a setting sun setting. I then went with outlines for the character, quick blabs of paint, blending with the various colors, and then rough things out at the end to give it a blended even finish. I feel quite happy with this painting.
Chaos Speed.
So...the little...blob reminded me of Mandy, from the Grim Adventures (you know, the cartoon.) It's her incarnation.
Project 1
I'm pretty new to the whole digital painting so I'm still trying to find a technique that works best for me. With this one, I used mostly traditional painting methods and for the most part, kept almost everything on one layer (except for the background and the rain).
Random Chaos
I hope everyone had a lot of fun with this exercise. This is a very good real technique to help you come up with original ideas. THANKS to Ryan today for demonstrating your work flow and techniques.
ALSO I am very impressed with everyone's project 1. If you have not turned yours in yet to the blog you still have time. I will probably grade your projects Monday. So you have a bit longer if you need it.
Thanks Everyone!!!
Chaos Speed Paint- Tiger In The Grass
So for this one I took the base image set it to multiply and painted the basic colors underneath it. Then added some layers above the craziness and painted some slight details. It you were to strip away the crazy chaos layer it would look like nothing but a blob of orange and white. haha..
-Matt Carey
Chaos Speedpaint -- Praying Maiden
In the center of the chaos image, I saw something that looked like a head to me, and then it went down into somewhat of a body and I saw a girl praying. So, the praying maiden took form. I also decided to keep rather dark colours in some of the areas for little reason just because I liked the look of it :P
Results of the Chaos speedpaint
So, this doesnt really have any relationship to the chaos anymore, but it was heavily inspired BY the chaos, so that kind of works. Yeah, I'm gonna go with that.
Chaos Assignment In Progress
There was patch right in the middle that reminded me of this small, winged shape on top of a bigger shape, so I took that and expanded it into this sort of fantasy gemstone artifact. Who knows what power it holds....
Custom Brush Techniques: Trees and Forest
I learned how to do this by watching a Gnomon Workshop DVD by David Levy. Its a cool way of getting a lot of detail or implying detail for speed painting and early stages for concept art. To paint a forest in a single stroke you essentially need to make a series of brushes that build on top of one another. So for the first image here I show two different leaf brushes. I used a reference for the maple leaf and did not use a reference for the other one. When making a brush try and get a wide range of value . Its important that one side of the branch is not lighter than the other. You don't want your brush looking like a light source is from one direction but your painting itself is in another direction. If you look at the maple leaf branch I have highlights and shadows on both sides. The dialog box to the right of the image shows some of the dynamics that will make it flow like a vine or a branch.
Since we just made the leaf brushes we can start with making a brush for the tree trunks. The reason I make a brush for the trunk itself and not just a full tree is because I want to be able to create a large variety of trees. With a trunk builder I can make some short trees, tall trees, fat trees, etc. Just like with the leaves you want to make sure the bottom of the trunk blends into itself. The second image demonstrates the process for making a tree for each season. I start with a winter tree which has no leaves. I copy this to another layer for spring and add leaves with the leaf brush I just created. Copy the spring layer and repeat for a summer version. Remember when painting in the leaves to use a wide range of values to get more detail on the brush. 
With the right settings for a forest brush we can easily paint a picture like this in a matter of moments. This image was an original test for the brush and you can see with opacity and size jitter set to pen pressure you can create some real depth. This process could be used for anything. Try making a brush for making buildings, mountains, or clouds. I will upload this set of brushes for everyone in the doc sharing tab. -Matt Carey
Wednesday, September 22, 2010
Character
It took me really long to do the wings :/ I couldnt really decide on environment either...
let me know if you have questions....
Here is my painting for project 1. I wanted to do a pixie character or something like that dancing in a person's hand.Project 1
My project 1. This is a villain character I came up with who has decided to go on a terror spree in the city.
Project 1 - Cliff Dwelling
Most of my landscapes have almost always had a wide screen aspect ratio, so when I drew this a couple of months ago I wanted a taller image with a massive foreground element on one side. I always start a painting with a neutral color in this case a desaturated brown then begin painting the sky and ground on separate layers. I will block in general shapes then look at my light source and use the highlights and shadows to sculpt out the shape. On my sketch I made a mesh guide so i can get an idea of the shape before. Slowly you build up a color pallet and the I just pull my colors from the painting. I use texture brush and try to tighten my strokes. About half way through I took the golden rectangle with the spiral that is in part of the doc sharing and overlayed it to look at my composition. My original sketch and was laid out pretty good but with the golden rectangle I nudged some things around and wrapped the cliff into the foreground. I think it added an extra sense of depth and scale by having dwellings closer to the viewer and repeating objects into the image. -Matt Carey
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