SP 10 : beachy day

So i didn't properly explain why i did these speedpaintings. Or did i..? Well anyways, around the middle of the spring semester of the last school year Goro Fujita came to SJSU and did a lecture and demo of speed painting on photoshop. It was so inspiring that a bunch of us SHM-ers made up a blog and started speed painting with photoshop everyday. A few of us like Jonathan Apilado and Jonathan Chu are one of the ones to start right when that lecture ended and they're soo far ahead of where I am it's amazing..

That's the reason I bought a tablet, I really dont know why I couldn't bring myself to buy it earlier. It really has been the best purchase of the year. hahaha.. i feel like i'm learning a lot and being more disciplined because of it. I guess there's nothing like new equipment to re-motivate you huh?

I started to work on copying the sample pictures Goro sent to the SHM group from a long time ago. Awesome ppl from sjsu has also followed suit. Check them out!!

First picture that i decide to do is a beach picture! ironic cause i was supposed to go to the beach today but it didn't really happen. hahhaa. anywayss enough of my babbling.

here's the picture...

anddd here's what i did in about.. 40+ minutes.. gotta start keeping track of my time better!

feels like some values are still not correct yet.. but it was really fun. especially doing the sky! :) it's really fun using so many saturated colors!

can't wait for tomorrow! :)

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!!!

Suhita Challenge!!!

me and my friend Jonathan Apilado did a Suhita Challenge today.. i mean yesterday... This lady is really awesome :) . She rough sketches items or scenes using blind contour or semi blind contour then she uses watercolors to color it. The resuly is really beautiful and whimsical and also very loose and fluid. i love it.

check her out at.. http://www.etsy.com/shop/SketchAway?ref=top_trail#

Inspired by her we decided to do something similar to her work. xD here's what i did. Check out Jon's blog to see what he did! :)

Here's what i did

kinda bad picture quality x( . but i liked how fluid it is. :) not as good as Suhita's though!! Need to learn how to use watercolor better and to blind contourr :)