Friday, September 30, 2011


day at the beach...

Two mechs fighting it out at the beach...
I had this pic in my mind for about two weeks now, finally managed to get a good day and put it out halfway ok... I actually wanted to make 3D-models for it to get the perspective perfectly, and probably will get this done sometime too, but for the moment it's ok...
I'm still lacking the immense depth and action some of the guys out there manage, but it's just me practicing... Hopefully getting better... :)

The process is shown here:
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/ITYCeOaDk18/ToUFBdAnpkI/AAAAAAAAAfM/7zGjKptqmUM/s1600/dayatthebeach_tut_collage.jpg

All in all, this took about 5h, the first one wasted with a not working background...


day at the beach steps...

How I made the pic "day at the beach"...
This is definitely not to show off my far from perfect skills, but actually to let way better artists see the progress, and hopefully to get some good advice!

But I'm glad if it helps a few of you guys out there! :)


First two sketches are made with iPad, wacom bamboo stylus and artrage, 15 and 30 min, below a rough 5 min ballpoint-sketch, then five photoshop-sketches, about 15 min each, and then four pics from the actual pic in progress...
All of them to practice the scenery and light I had in mind. Still not how I wanted it to be, but at least getting better... Practice...

Sunday, September 11, 2011


30...

Well, I'm getting 30 next week (yeah, it's scary O_o), and made a pic for the occasion...

I had an idea what I wanted to do, but no real setting yet. I had a vague memory of a special pic in my favs, which would have been a perfect template.
Found it, downloaded it, copied the whole composition and even used the colour-picker! normally a no-go, but I just didn't get the colours right :(
Learned a lot here again... The usual when you really go deep into a way better artists work!
So, here is the original work from DerMonkey. It is an awesome painting!
Please look at it and fav it instead or at least together with mine!!!

http://dermonkey.deviantart.com/gallery/#/d239bl0

About 4 hours...