More playing...viking tough guy

Again, just playing around with painting and style. Digging the sketchy with the painterly right now.

Also, this is now my banner.

Felurian

This is another piece from the Patrick Rothfuss series. It is the scene where the main character, Kvothe, and his crew come across Felurian. (It is in the second book and I will spoil it no further, though it says in the jacket notes that he has an encounter with the fairie.) Anyway... the scene stuck out to me as particularly vivid and I chose it for the subject matter of yet another Photoshop painting. Enjoy please!

The Lantern

This is my latest PS painting. Grabbed the image off Google. I just liked its composition and coloring. Unfortunately I am not sure who deserves credit for it. Anyway... this thing took me a couple hours and I'm pretty happy with it.

Here is the painting.

Here is the source image.

The Last Dumpling

My most recent "speed painting" in Photoshop. There supposed to be done in an hour or less, but I cheated and took about 2 and a half hours on this one. Anyway, pretty happy with it.

I did the drawing/line work for it in my sketchbook. 

Photoshop Paintings!!

Ok, so Goro Fujita is this awesome artist and I read an interview with him where he mentioned that he did one speed painting (30 min. - 1 hour) in photoshop nearly everyday for one year and how much better it made him. That sounded like a pretty good way to get better myself so I have started the challenge as well. So far I have done 8 paintings. The following are probably the best 2 of the bunch. Hope you like 'em. If you like these at all, a link to Fujita's blog is in my blog role (it's called Chapter 56), he is a lot lot better.

Self Portrait

This is my final for painting class (not even turned in yet!) and it is probably the first thing I've done of me that actually looks something like me (accept the eyes, they have a sort of anime creepiness going on). It was done in acrylic paint on masonite, roughly 24" x 18".

Just Catching Up - Still Life w/ Skull

This was our final in-class project in my first-semester painting class. It's done in oil. The pics include the set up has well a bit of "the process". The photos were taken from my cell phone, so they're a little faded-looking.

And that's it.