Caricature Digipaint

Hello, hello again. I thought this time best to try my luck at caricaturing. I had a lot of fun doing this one actually. It was a tutorial over at Andrew Moks blog. I found it quite helpful actually. And I could see myself doing a lot more of these in the near future. Seeing as this is the first Caricature digital painting I've done, theres plenty of mistakes to be had. Hopefully, the next one will be better.

p.s. By the way, I'm still working on the Totoro bg but just decided to take a break from it. I think right now I'm at this stage of self-awareness where I just want to try different techniques and different approaches to digital painting. At the moment, I'm in a tutorial mode and at other moments I'm just trying to mimic great painters through analyzing the way they paint or their use of color.  I really hope in the near future I can start posting up my own stuff  because thats where the real fun and the most rewarding challenges will come.

Fantasy Tree Scene Tut

Well, this is a tutorial they had over Psd tuts plus I believe. I found it to be good practice. They claimed it would take about 2 hours. It took me a little over 3 hours. Which tells me I need more practice.  I think my main focus here was trying to focus on speed. But at the same time I have to keep in mind not to sacrifice the artwork too much. I think I might go back and work on the underside of this a bit more. And the background could be redone. 

Totoro Backgrounds

Wow! After what's been a busy nightmare of a week. Its done for the moment. So inbetween that busy busy time, I decided to tackle a fantasy nature kind of theme for my next digital paint.. I've always been and still am fascinated with nature. Especially, stuff like moss,  lichen, and mushrooms. This stuff is just amazing to see in real life. And to see somebody paint it as well as Kazuo Oga is just breathtaking. If you don't know who Kazuo Oga is just check out the anime, My Neighbor Totoro. He basically did all the backgrounds for that movie and some other Ghibli favorites. 


I can only attempt to emulate here. For the moment, this is where I'm at. I thought this particular painting has all the elements  that I favor. You've got a background and a foreground such as the hill on the left. And then on top of that many composited elements such as the ferns to the right and some flowers I'll be adding later on this weekend hopefully.  And the colors here are absolutely the kind of greens I rave for: lush, bright and saturated.

HellBoy,Just in time for Halloween brutha!

Hey everybody, well we're just getting into that month of Halloween. I decided to follow a tutorial in steps by another well known Digital Painter, that goes by the name HD Fortress. He's on facebook I believe. So he decided to do this WIP(Work in Progress) or step by steps of Mike Mignolas beloved character, Hellboy.  At the time when I started I said to myself this is doable. Little did I know that this would take me roughly 7 hours. Not all at once mind you. Quite a bit of work. I'm not truly satisfied with it but since I'm just getting back "into the swing of things" this will do. I might tweak it some more later. But I think 7 hours is enuff for me. Don't you think?

Adorable Stitch

Well, I'm back and to start myself off or rather just looking back. This is a digital paint I did in Photoshop CS2  a while back in May of this year. I was just following a really well known digital painter by the name of Bobby Chiu. Absolutely amazing artist and well thought and giving individual. I just decided to follow one of his podcasts on youtube of which there are several. This seemed like a good one to tackle first. I'm not sure how long this one took. But I would give it a good 3 or 4 hrs probably. As I keep doing these, I hope to get good enuff that I might be able to cut the time. There are a lot of factors I'm gonna be thinking about when I'm painting. Color and composition will be a few of those factors. I'll be adding more as I get into the groove of things.