Daily Painting #176

Just a quick random painting with some surreal-ish elements to it.

Ani 112a - Reversal

Here is the project that took so much time that I couldn't post anything for the past few days! It took more than 40 hours (and perhaps significantly more... because I didn't really keep track of time) over 3 weeks. What we had to do is cover a piece of illustration board completely in charcoal and erase out the white. It's also drawn from a photograph. This particular photo happens to be a still shot from a 1947 movie Brute Force (I haven't seen it, but now I'd like to!)

It's not as finished as I'd like it to be, but it was due and this is what I turned in!

Oh, and of course, it looks nicer in life, but I tried to tweak the levels a bit in photoshop to try to get the values a little closer to what they are.

Daily Paintings #172-175

So I haven't posted my daily's for a few days due to my time being sucked up by a pretty time intensive project for one of my art classes, but I've still been painting every day! So here they are, all of them are done in an hour or less (and in some cases a lot less).

I painted this at school pretty quickly, I had to catch the bus in 30 minutes and took about 20 minutes to paint this.

This is from a photo that I don't own the copyright to (I like the picture a lot)

This was really fun, I just wanted to paint something that was pretty abstract and try out some various painting techniques)

Haha, this was really fun to paint! Robot with a unicorn! (that unicorn was gonna be just some people at first... but then I thought that's too boring, and what's better than unicorns?!)

Daily Painting #170

Oh man, I have so much work left on my reversal project. But here's a quick painting from a photo I did to wrap up the day... gonna have to wake up early tomorrow.

Daily Painting #169

A quick painting from a picture I took.

Daily Painting #168

Haha, another really random environment sketch. I was inspired to experiment with some colors after seeing Sheldon (one of my professors) use some of his pastels today in class. I already sort of knew this, but he said something that I really liked: "The color doesn't really matter as long as you get the value right" I think keeping that in mind is really going to help how colors will work in my paintings and bring more interest to how my stuff looks. We'll see!

Daily Painting #167

Very quick painting from a photo that I do not own the rights to.

Daily Painting #166

Haha, what is this exactly? I'm not sure, but I made it! Some environment that was fun to paint!

Daily Painting #165

Fun to make! Haha, definitely not a finished piece (and I might actually want to turn this to color). Took about an hour to think up and paint. Aaaaand, now it's time to sleep.

 Edit: I worked on it a little more and wanted to update this post. Didn't change too much (you probably can't easily tell just by looking at the thumbnails), but a few details are different. Still very rough and not finished, but some stuff bothers me less now.

Daily Painting #164

Just a very quick painting from a photograph. I hope everyone had a happy Halloween!

The Ultimate Pumpkin Slayer - W.I.P.

Ahahahaha, so fun to make! I really want to finish this... not sure if I'll have time to finish it before Halloween ends, but I definitely want to paint this! Just a very random idea that started out with me doodling a silhouette and wanting to draw some epic guy for Halloween... he ended up being epic in a way I wasn't originally expecting. Hopefully you'll see this finished soon!

Daily Painting #163

Grrr, not too happy with this, but here it is! Haha, it was fun even though it didn't come out quite like I'd have liked it to.

Daily Painting #162

A quick painting done from photographic reference.

Daily Painting #161

For this one I tried starting out laying out the composition in line first, then I wanted to sort of focus on varying colors as they go back into space to (hopefully) make a more appealing atmospheric perspective. I like how this one came out.

Done before catching some z's without any reference.

Random Girl Doodle

Just a really quick doodle I did this morning. I wanted to (and still want to) paint a person, so I just this before I had to get ready. Obviously not done, but it was fun. I think it's a lot easier for me to paint faces when I can start with some sort of line-ish under-drawing. Haha, and this is a really random pose, not a lot of gesture, but I sort of did what I wanted to do.

Daily Painting #160

A really quick painting before bed... I wanna paint more though! This is from a picture I took at SJSU.

Daily Painting #159

Did this at school today on my laptop before class. Ha, I like the idea and the direction it's going (the color needs a lot of tweaking... along with everything else, but it's going!) I was thinking it'd be some sort of radioactive man or something flying off the earth.

Daily Painting #158

This was done really fast today before I had to head out for class. Haha, so his proportions are pretty off (He's supposed to be a kid... it's probably his shirt that's off too... and a lot of other things. Oh well, I got the idea out!) Painted with no reference while listening to a new album by Coldplay "Mylo Xyloto" and more specifically the song "Hurts Like Heaven" (I quite like that one).

Daily Painting #157

A quick color study of Rembrandt's painting "The Philosopher in Meditation" before bed. I didn't quite capture the color as well as I'd like to, but oh well, I'll do better next time! That's what these are for!

Daily Painting #156

Another daily I painted before I head off to sleep (...I gotta start getting these done on the other side of the clock). Supposed to be an underwater scene with strange tower type things and a girl that fell in. I had fun working with these colors, I should definitely study how light acts underwater though. It's tough stuff!