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 :)