The various tasks that keep me busy.

I love owning a business (sarcasm). Sure it has it's upsides, but it also makes me want to pluck out my remaining eye and  become a blind monk. I have been trying to finish the last book of A Song of Fire and Ice as well, at least that is going well. I can't seem to put it down.

I digress, there is a large snow storm in my area so I could not get out to the studio to get on my comp there and upload some stuff, but I still have something to share with you guys:

This is a clips video... sorry for the dub wubs.. I was listening to a youtube channel called Going Quantum and my forgot to turn off the audio recorder on my screen capture software. For the best viewing experience watch it in 1080HD and you might also want to turn down the volume on your headphones or speakers.

Coloring Book???

Hello all, I was browsing deviant art the other day and came across this illustration by Babsdraws:

I really loved this image and wondered what it would look like in color so I decided to give a go at coloring it. Make sure you check out the original artist at: http://babsdraws.deviantart.com/.

Now here is my rendition of the piece:

Let me be clear I do not think that my image is better than the original artist, or that I am a better artist. I just wanted to recreate this in color. 

N-Kay

Ok, guys I have been under a lot of stress and emotional burden dealing with a recent tragedy in the family so I have not been able to work let alone paint for the blog. I do not think this should keep me from providing well established content, so I have come to a compromise that will hopefully balance things out.
Some of you may know of Nicholas Kay, if not let me give you a lil' reference.

Nicholas started using Photoshop around 2001 and professionally as an artist in 2007. Last year he obtained a MA in Game Design.

His original style consisted of heavy line art, but he has experimented with different styles.

He has worked for

• 40K Radio


• Alderac Entertainment Group


• Bell of Lost Souls


• BySwarm


• Dark Art Miniatures


• Disney


• Electronic Gaming Monthly


• Fantasy Flight Games


• Game Night Productions


• Lone Shark Games Inc.


• Miniwargaming.com


• Neverstop


• Paizo Publishing


• Pixar


• Qubop Inc.


• Say Design


• Sephora

• The Creative Group

Most importantly though Nicholas is bringing his knowledge and experience to any one who is interested by sharing tips and demonstrations through livestream sessions, which he then posts to youtube. 

I have not been able to attend one of his livestreams yet, but I will soon. Allow me to share a few with you now:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-sTWGnM43ss&feature=plcp

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s5_nwYW_s3k&feature=plcp

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjAIW6fAlYk&feature=plcp

 Also be sure to look at his other work you can visit  his website: Nicholaskay.com

Thank you for viewing and hopefully I don't lose too many viewers to Nick, peace out, word to your mother and other outdated ways of saying goodbye.

Psuedo-Study

So I have tried to upload this pic about 15 times now and every time there has been parts that are corrupted, which is frustrating me. Nonetheless I decided just to post this anyway, since the problem areas are not overwhelming.
        I have the idea that painting images is a great way to figure out how people structure their painting. This method can also teach the person doing the study a great deal about how they themselves paint. This is my attempt I found this really gorgeous painting on conceptart.org while browsing through a sketchbook, unfortunately firefox crashed on me and I lost to whom the painting belonged to, but after a little searching I found out who the original belongs to.
       Viktor Fetsch is his name and Oh Lawdy! is he amazing. 

Here is his version (above), I think I got it pretty good and close to his likeness. Though I wanted to see about leaning towards warmer colors. I don't know how well I did that, I was really pushing my colors towards the hue of Viktor's at some times so I screwed up, but hopefully I worked those areas out so that you can't tell.
Check out more of Viktor Fetsch's work, this is not a request, do it.
http://conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?179065-Fetschbook
http://fetschart.blogspot.com/
http://fetsch.deviantart.com/
and if you want to follow him on twitter he's @ViktorFetsch
Thank you for viewing!!!

A Nice Little Preview

when i started this piece I was just doing some facial studies from one of my friends. I did about 20 or 30 small thumbnail sketches with a 2H, an HB, and a 2B Pencil in one of my sketchbooks. Then i got the Idea of trying some techniques I learned about from watching an Erik Ryan Demonstration on painting the head. Needless to say It progressed even farther. To be honest I'm not sure where I want to take this. I know where I could, but I'm strained between keeping the sensuality of the piece and not distorting it with the things that pop into my mind.
I might do some more color sketches and see what you all think, but I want the end image to have that feeling of sensuality that makes you go:

Well I guess we will just see how that goes.
Some things to look forward to are my Test based tutorial which will be very in-depth and a couple of speed paintings with some painting tips.
Thanks for visiting!!! Have a happy Thanksgiving!

Lil' Demonstration

My Brain is all wierd n' stuff

My Brain is all weird n' stuff.

Winter

I  will be working on other projects for the next couple of days, so here is a video to hold you over until i resume my drawing rampage. I apologize for the resolution version of a screen recorder, but I know I do! It's not an instructional vid just a time-lapse so enjoy, and feel free to comment I'm getting pretty lonely around here.