2013/30/09

 I've been volunteering on Dave Yee's short thesis film and it's my first time working on Vis Dev in a short animation. I made some critters and learned how to color them in flash so that's fun. I haven't been painting lately so I thought i'll do an hour paint just to practice; just one layer in photoshop from life. It's my first semester where I'm doing a lot of illustrations for school. I'm really excited, but also realizing how much there is to learn.

#11 & recollection

 

A continuation of my 30 day challenge. #11 is my favorite food; really it's making me hungry just painting it. about an hour with reference. The second painting is also painted with reference; it's a challenge painting made with a group of friends to do an illustration every week based on a word. This week's word was recollection. The next one will be chimera.

#10 : something you couldn't live without

I won't be able to live without the people who support me. Family, friends, and loved ones.

speedy devil

takin a break from maya and painted for a bit :)

SP 30 : whut it's 30??

damn didn't think it's 30 days already :OOO !! :)

details is hard.. and i need to simplifyyyy paint the biggest shape first then the smaller ones! D:

SP 29 : Light and Trees

this one was too simple of a reference picture to sketch for. it was really hard to paint it.. or i mean.. to get the trees right. D:  I did 2 paintings today. the first one was around 20 minutes.. and the second one was about 40 minutes.

i thought since it was really simple.. i could do it just by eyeballing mostly everything..
this is what happened :

the shapes aren't well defined, and it looks really confusing.. so i restarted and paid more attention to shadow shapes and colors and values. and this is the result :

hmm. i went too light in the middle of the page but it's cleaner now..  and i like how the light on the left side of the page looks correct :)

gotta do more of these rawrrr!

SP 28

40 min + for this painting. it's really hard to blend two colors together when they have different base colors.. :\
and it's so hard to make colors warm!! D: whyyyy?!!

paid a lil bit more attention to detail.. but my paintings are kinda haphazard looking still.. well i should focus more on values and color first..

supah speed paintin' : 19 & 20 !!

wooow. it's been 20 days!! :DD gosh darn it time goes by fast!! :OO 

anyways.. i missed a day yesterday sadly .___. i was so sad... i failed at work yesterday , my mouth was hurting because i was talking and smiling to the customers. So i thought i'll just take a pain killer that i have on me, which is the vicodin. What i didn't know was how strong it was.. and how badly i felt after taking it. >_>;; i felt so nauseous just while standing.. then there's light sensitivity.. and all that awesome crappy stuff. Thankfully my really really reaaaaaaally nice boss decided to let me go early (because i was useless ;_; ) so that's what i did. That's partly the reason why i didn't yesterday. I took the vicodin at 8pm.. i didn't feel better until 12am. >_> my mother told me to sleep. hahhh.

But.. that's why i have 2! 2 paintings today! the first one took 50 minutes, and i followed my usual routine of..
sketching -> backgrounds -> foreground    using layers in photoshop. It was really fun conveying lights! 

the sky was really fun to do :) so many colors!! and it was fun getting that saturation in the usually blue sky. what was harder was making the grass more subtle and nicer.. arghhh. the clouds were made in another layer than the sky. :) this was a good idea turns out.. xD if i mess up on the cloud i didn't touch the sky! :D 

The second painting took me about.. 20-30 minutes. i didn't sketch at all for this, i wasn't going to use any layers either.. but i couldn't do it! layers just make me paint so much faster! for this one i was purely looking on shapes and colors. The values are off thought.. and the sunlit parts of the ground could go even lighter..

it was interesting looking at the result of the different ways to paint.. the first one just looks so much cleaner.. but the second one feels.. more organic. hahaha which one is better?!

time to sleeeep it's way too late x_x

SP 18 : paint paint paaaaaaint

paint paint paint paint paint paint. digitally of course. so much fun.. i think i got caught up in the details man. sigh sighh :( anyway. really fun day today. finally get to hang out with friends after a long while :)) got home and just painted because it was 11pm -__-;; but here's the painting for today!

yep.. some colors and values are still too light.. and reflection in water is harrrd.. Dx gotta work harder and fasterrr!!

SP 17 : Little House & some sketch book pages!

good good day today! got to drawww some and paint some :) had some fun shooting reference videos with awesome peeps!! :D still can't eat stuff but that's ok.. hahaha..

here's the painting for todayy...

 

for the painting.. it took me about 45-50 minutes.. i think. The source of light wasn't as bright as the ocean one.. so this one felt like most of it was in the middle tone for value. i like them contrasttt Dx i'm feeling good on these paintings lately :D it's not getting easier.. it's just that i feel like.. i have my way of doing them now :) although i can see there's some problems with colors still! D:

Anyhow, here's some sketchbook pages i did today and a few days before. I needa draaaaw in the sketchbooook ;___;

fun fun fun! gotta draw more!

SP 11 : Lighthouse!

here's my paaainting for today :) pretty fun. tried to keep things simple and focus on shapes, value and color more. There are several things i dont like about it.. in particular i was having difficulty with making the clouds softer and the ... texture.. of the weed / plants on the foreground. I need to work on the lighthouse some more though.. i didn't spend too much time on it.. :(

it was fun though, took about.. 30-45 minutes.. still have to remember to time myself.. >_<

can't wait for #12!!!

SP 8 & 9 : CUP

Missed a day for 4th of July yesterday... Even though it's late.. happy 4th of july!! :D
in the festivities i failed to do a speed painting, so that's why I am doing 2 today to make it up!

I think i need to do some landscape pictures next time, and maybe work from imagination.. but for now I'll try to fine tune colors and values first. small goals. hahaha

painted a cup this time and it feels like im slightly getting better at judging values. slightly..

here's the picture that i worked on first


and here's the black and white


here's the color version i did right after

i listened to Jon today and simplified a lot. thanks for the help :) !!

Also, unrelated event but John Clapp critiqued my work today. Inspiring to say the least, made me want to do more and more for my drawings. Thank you John Clapp!! xD

FIRE IT UP!!!

SP 7 : Colored Oranges

Second part of the painting that i did for training. I think painting it in black and white did help out making my colors more.. correct.. ish xD


spent about an hour >_> i think doing this.. might've taken longer then it should..

SP 4 & 5 : Around the House

Went home today after work and painted 2 photos in photoshop, one to make up for yesterday and one for today! yay :) it was really fun, and after the last painting, i decided to do something much much simpler and i think i learnt a lot from these 2 photos

The first painting i did took me 45 minutes. It's from this picture right here..


this is what i painted..


the colors are still not quite right yet.. and the shapes aren't quite right either.. but i like how it came out! i'm glad it looks 3 dimensional hahaha!

This is the second picture that i painted..

and here's what i painted...


still need to work on colors!! but can't wait for more

speed paintin 2!!!.... & some artie stuffs

yay yay yay so much fun using the tablet :D did another painting today, about 45+ minutes :p couldn't find a good picture so i did it from life. painting the old desktop computer...

here it is!


also did some artie in knight form stuffs :)


pretty productive art day today. I wanna draw more!!!! gotta level up faster!

FInally a tablet..

So it's been my dream for a really long time now.. to get myself a tablet.
Now i can cross that off the list cause i got ones YEAH! i caught the ups guy while he was delivering stuff in my apartment.. well my mom did, but then i asked him to give me my tablet. lol especially since i didn't get it last friday.. my poor brother was asleep and he didn't hear the knocks of the ups guy -_-;;

so i decided to take mah shiny new tablet for a ride and do some work xD here's what i did today. My first speed painting! i didn't really check how long it took though >_> i think about an hour..

it's from this picture my friend gave me


also i thought i'll work on artie for a lil bit. i will do some more of that in the morning before i go draw naked ppl :3 .


best purchase of the year!! xD special thanks to Jonathan Apilado, Diem Doan and Dang Nguyen and Goro Fujita!!