Wednesday, December 28, 2011

Selfportrait digital - december 2011

Recently found a lovely oil-painting by David Palumbo on Gorilla Artfare, and decided it was time for me  to test out some digital selfportrait-painting out again. Im really fascinated by the painting strokes he achieves, and the sense of plane-shifting you can sense in the face.

So, my inspiration source here

My painting proces (roughly 3-4 hours):

Result:

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Goache - first test

First little test with my new goache-set. Was awesome playing around with real brushes and new materials


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Monday, December 26, 2011

Sketchbook comeback

Suddenly noticed I hadn't scanned any stuff for quite some time, so here comes a massive sketchbook/croquis update!














Also, got an awesome set of gouache-colors aswell as brushes and proper watercolour/goache paper, so next update will probably be something featuring that material!

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Thursday, December 15, 2011

Project 4550 coming to an end

So, Project 4550's coming to an end, and we're all looking forward for a welldeserved christmas and break from hectic assignments! I compiled my final images and turn-around into a little 30-second shortmovie.

See it here:
http://vimeo.com/33722887

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And merry christmas to every reader of my blog!

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Sunday, December 11, 2011

"Malade" and painting reflections


In my recent painting I wished to try a few things, some of them succeeded, some didn't. First of all I wished to make a painting where the brushstrokes would vary, going from rough and grand to detailed and minor - this also meant overcoming my most common problem: Not being able to detail or finish something off. That part succeeded. Secondly I wished to carry some of the classical drawing-technique with varying pressure in the outline into it aswell - and also I had in mind to play with warm versus cold colors. That succeeded fairly well aswell. Finally I'd like to make a picture which would NOT depend on value-play, as in having a broad range from almost white tones to almost black tones (since I typically in my pictures attempt to get a broad range). I wished to see if I could make a picture which would function and be strong with very little value-difference - since I've seen other artists do such a thing with nice digital black/white portraits.

However, in the end, after having done all the painting proces and shined it up with some sharpening at several places, it still needed something - and I saw no other solution than playing around with Curves-adjustment layers aswell as Color Balance, and ended up with, in my opinion, a better picture - even the small-value-range goal failed. Better luck next time I suppose!

Reference picture ("malade" by MartaSyrko on deviantART) - and painting without curves & color-adjustments:


Final version:


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Friday, December 9, 2011

Lacy - Pencil study

Pencil study of picture from deviantart - Model: Lacy, Seattle-model. Photographer: PensivenessPhotos on deviantart.


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