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Been so busy, plus a touch of food poisoning. Blarrgh! Been mostly practicing with Zbrush recently, but I painted this up yesterday for funsies.

Disney Frozen sculpt style attempt

I also sculpt some days...

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12th February 2014

I think I enjoy drawing silhouette first as chunks of gray, and then going over that with line work. It gives my brain something to look at instantly; and it feels like my mind can think in terms of silhouette better than just lines. At least in the beginning stages.

10th February 2014

My eyes have been causing me issues again. The last week or so has been rather tedious with struggling with sensitive, sore and itchy eyes. It finally got a bit too bad this weekend and so I saw the doctor. Which sucked because I couldn't do any work. I have medication now and it seems to be easing already. So I decided to risk it and do a drawing, I've had my new Cintiq nearly a week now and barely used it. I might have write a review on it at some point, but my first impressions are good. I love this thing, best thing I've ever purchased.

I want to do a series of pinup images that involve trains for some reason. As if I don't get enough of trains at work; but I figure it's something I've never seen before, so why not?

Here's some sketches experimenting with the idea.

3rd February 2014

Today I had life drawing class. Here are the results. Excuse the terrible photos. The flash on my phone won't work currently as the battery is too low; not that it would make that much difference. I need a scanner. That's the next thing to buy now I have managed to purchase my new tablet.

3x 3 minutes

1x 30 minutes


1x 30 minutes

2nd February 2014 - Train girl pinup progress

Weekend is over already. Wow. I think I've resided myself to expecting to get nothing done for the majority of the weekend. I guess it's a good thing, as I spend the most part of the weekdays burning myself out. I tend to work at my job on 3D and come home and paint till late. So It's good to get some rest.

Back on this model train pinup though, I like where it is going! I've ordered myself a new Wacom Cintiq 13HD too, so I'm really looking forward to playing with that.

30th January 2014 - F7 Southern Pacific Pinup

I decided to develop the sketch from yesterday into a rail fan pin up. It's based around my favorite locomotive - F7 Southern Pacific - Bloody nose.

29th January 2014

Morgana (Threnody in Velvet) and Kiss me Deadly are my references for this one.
I've decided to take a short break from the speed stuff, I'm trying to allow myself to get better by doing longer studies at the same time. I think the idea now is to use speed paints and sketches as warmup exercises. It's going to be tough to find time to do that PLUS longer paintings in the evenings; but I will certainly try. Anyway, day 1 -

28th January 2014

Here's a few scribbles from tonight, really not much. Work has really got me so tired right now. Very depressing that I'm finding it so hard to find time to practice. It's near the end of January and I haven't really learnt much, not cool. I'll have to start reading and studying I think, because I'm not happy with the progress I'm making. I'll also need to make more effort to practice every day, and practice smart. I've given myself this year to get to a level I can be proud of.

27th January 2014 - Blah

Today was unsuccessful. The least said about it the better. I'll move on.

22nd January 2014 - Elsa again (Frozen)

I've finally seen Frozen now, and I absolutely loved it. Such fantastic animation; I had to do Elsa again. What a cool character, maybe I'll do Anna next!

These paintings are good fun to do, especially when I've had a bit of a bad one at work. Just put the headphones on, Frozen soundtrack on and go for it. Fun stuff :)

22nd January 2014

Here are some figure studies from this evening.
Things might slow down on the blog for the next 2 weeks and a bit, schedules at work are getting pretty hectic so we shall see.

19th January pt2 - Jake Peralta

I painted Jake Peralta from Brooklyn Nine Nine today.
I love that show currently, very funny.
This was a One hour paint :)

19th January

It seems it's harder to draw every single day than I expected. I'll work harder to at least do 30 minutes speed / gesture drawings each day from now on.

Here are some I just did.

Interestingly, the 5minute ones I feel are my most successful. The 10 minute ones ended up becoming overworked.

Whilst I like these websites that generate random timed images for you, some of the images are a bit frustrating. Like the ones that are 90% Shadow. Though I guess it all helps. 

16th January 2014

I must work on Proportions next! It's really letting me down. Here are a couple of sketches I did today.

I quickly photoshopped the large head to be smaller. Much nicer.