Thursday 28 January 2010

More sketches! It's amazing what some fashion designers come up with. I find some of their work really inspiring. These ones are taken from Balenciaga collections photos, and I'm definitely going to look more into this kind of stuff. The anatomy ones are not very good but I'm actually very happy with them because this is something that I was fighting with one month ago. These I didn't copy and tried to do the anatomy the best I could. Now at least I can put down a quick sketch of what I'm thinking. (althought these are not quick sketches).
When I don't post stuff it doesn't mean I'm doing nothing. Actually, lately I found again the love I used to have for drawing. Not only have I felt that it helps to improve my painting, it also makes me look into some stuff that I usually don't observe enough. So, these are all from photos except the one where people are in the chairs. That one was an attempt at drawing in the canteen. Have to find a better place for this kind of exercise. The animals I do it to try to get more acquainted with different anatomies, and the sport ones are just great to catch real bodies in action. And the hands, well I'm already feeling some improvement when I try to make a hand. So I have to keep them going.
This armour has more colour than a rainbow. I couldn't get it right but it was very good as a study. It needs more light. I seem to always finish these with less colour and light than the originals. ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Tuesday 26 January 2010

Just a first try on this kind of thing. The photo was not that good anyway. Still I can see there is no contrast and some other stuff is missing too. Anyway, here's my brother.

Sunday 24 January 2010

Two more studies. This last one took a bit longer because of the face (also something I have to get around one of these days).

Saturday 23 January 2010

A couple more studies. Sometimes I feel like trying to do less detailed studies of metal, but I came to realize that what I really enjoy in paintings that have armours in them, is the detail that makes some of those pieces look like they jump from the page (or screen). So I think, at least for metal studies, I'll keep trying to get the details as much as I can. ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Sunday 17 January 2010

Here's some stuff I did to try to understand how metal surfaces work. I took 3 hours for the armour and 3H30 for the helmet. It's not that I'm totally unhappy with these two. I just wish I could be quicker. ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
No new study here today. Just have something to say. From now on, this is a blog that everyone can read. As I said in portuguese in my first post, on this blog I'll put everything I do while I'm trying to learn how to do digital painting. All my studies will be here. It is not a kind of portfolio blog or anything like that. It is just a place to keep myself in check and a place to share with friends I don't see everyday, what I'm doing most of the time. Finally, it is a place where I hope people leave me some advice on how to progress further. Thanks in advance,... and back to work :) ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Este post de hoje não tem nenhum trabalho. Não que eu não tenha feito nada hoje, mas porque não tenho aqui nenhum scanner. Mas este post serve só para dizer que a partir de agora vou passar a colocar o que escrevo no blog em Inglês. Simplesmente porque nesta altura preciso de criticas ao que faço, e as pessoas que tentam deixar comentários no blog não sabem a que se referem os estudos que faço, porque não percebem português e então não sabem se copio de uma foto ou se faço a partir de um artista ou se estou a fazer as coisas da minha imaginação. Por isso a partir de agora vai sair tudo em inglês. Às poucas pessoas que nao percebem totalmente o inglês eu explicarei o que ponho no blog. Aqueles que escrevem na minha lingua e gostariam de deixar comentários, gostaria que o continuassem a fazer em português. Afinal, ia ser giro ter um blog com várias linguas a aparecer :)

Wednesday 13 January 2010

Tentei dar um pouco de volume ao desenho, ajustei a cara e alguns pormenores, e dei só um tom no fim para alterar o preto e branco. Gosto bastante do resultado mas ainda demoro muito tempo a fazer um destes. ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Friday 8 January 2010

Devido a recomeçar a desenhar pus-me a espreitar uma banda desenhada japonesa que um amigo aqui tem. Fiz as bocas e as mãos a copiar à vista do desenhador e os tipos do snowboard copiei-os de uma revista. Para os guerreiros usei um livro mas só como referência para as armaduras. Agora vou recomeçar a pintar mas estes dias já deram para ver o quanto é importante fazer bastantes sketches, portanto são para continuar. ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Como fiquei sem computador durante uns tempos, decidi que a melhor forma de aprender a pintar melhor sem na realidade pintar, seria a desenhar. As mãos são desenhos à vista da minha própria mão esquerda. Os cavalos são de um livro e as caras são de umas revistas. Depois são dois sketches rápidos que fiz da minha imaginação só para variar um pouco. ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________