50 Paintings 50 Days - LOTR Witch King - 06Nov10

Witch King from LOTR - 30 minutes

50 Paintings 50 Days - LOTR Uruk Hai - 05Nov10

Second day of my exercise... Uruk Hai from Lord of the Rings. 30 minutes. I am probably going to do a hi-res version of this and give it a lot more detail. I really like how this is coming along.

50 Paintings 50 Days - Girl - 04Nov10

Ok... I recently saw a friend of mine, who is a photographer, that challenged himself to 50 days, taking one photo each day of things that he would not normally shoot to push himself creatively. I was ecited about this and adopted his challenge to suit my needs so I could get better at lighting and blending. So... I am creating one painting (apart from my regular projects) a day for 50 days and I am limited to a 1/2 hour time frame. I am hoping that this exercise will help me get better at painting.
This is my first painting. Enjoy!

Lara Croft

Lara Croft line art by deviantart's horus-goddess. Coloring by me. I really wanted to push myself on this one when it came to ambient and reflective light. I think it turned out pretty good. Lighting has always been a problem for me so I plan on doing some more paintings that address that, and hopefully I will get better.

Vintage Star Wars Posters - Steve Thomas

Steve captured the look and feel of a vintage poster with his collection of Star Wars posters. You can see the full collection here:

http://stevethomasart.blogspot.com/2010/10/vintage-star-wars-travel-posters.html

Kevin Malone Poster

Here it is, hot off the cafepress! I am amazed at the quality of their products. The paper is thicker than store-bought posters and the color and printing is unbelievable. Cannot see one pixel on the whole thing.

http://www.cafepress.com/txtbkovrthnkr

I am Totally Gonna Bang Holly - Kevin Malone

15 hours, hand drawn and painted in Photoshop. I am really proud of this one. I pushed my limits of skin shades and overall textures. Not sure who I am gonna draw next. Maybe Pam.

The one... the only... Mr. Da-wight Scha-rute!

6 hours, dones in Adobe Photoshop. Probably my most favorite character on The Office.

Disc Brake Assembly

Isometric view of a Disc Brake assembly made using Adobe Illustrator. I really enjoyed working on this project and what I have learned from it. My workflow is much faster now, and I have found a lot of useful shortcuts that have made that happen.




Close up


Close up

Vector Skull Painting

Skull created in Adobe Illustrator using primarily the brush tool. I have been recently exploring painting in Illustrator and it has been quite an interesting experience.