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Here’s a couple of images I’ve been working with. Trying to get something done for the EOW. I’m not partially happy with them. So I moved onto working with more of a straight street scene. Which I’m happy with. 

I used a drawing I did in Levin as reference on my other monitor as I painted this. The brush I used is a custom brush I made myself. It has a very flat brush feel to it. Love it! I’m going to keep working on making brushes out of areas. Maybe release a brush pack? 

Here I scaled down the previous painting and worked on adding more content to the painting. I feel my paintings often lack information and want to work on adding more. This is a good start

I’ll add the other paintings… but I’m not happy with them…

More digital paintings in GIMP. I’ve gotten good at recording all my painting I’ve been doing, editing and uploaded to Youtube, No sound on it because I’m not a sound person and don’t have the time to do a narration to them all.  Merpeople was the theme for October 5th. I was inspired by my sister who often makes the noise Ekk Ekk. Being a fish. As always, spent time working on the background even more than the characters.  October 6th. Cats. And Spider People. I went with the cats and people theme.  This was a portrait I did for someone on Reddit. They wanted their child drawn so I painted this.

Short blog post. Much of my time is being spent on Guild Wars 2…. inspiring Concept Art with the loading scenes!.

I’ve really gotten back into SketchDaily on Reddit. They are having a month long Monster Girl theme happening… really motivates me to work on something everyday.

Here’s the work so far. All painted in GIMP with my old Wacom CTE-440 tablet.

Harpy. Experimenting with some different colors - most notable the purple.  Centaurs.Added in elements of my street drawings into this.  Beautiful on the inside and Slime People. Inspirted by Da Vinci anatomy. Colors used tryed to convay slime. That yucky green/yellow.

Sketchdaily work for today. Snake People. Noses. As you can see these creatures have a lack of noses. Inspired by a snake head (used a snake head as reference) then imaganation from there. Experimented with mixing colored together - red and blue to get the purple and a combo of yellow, red and blue to get the washed out red (background).

This wasn’t for Sketch Daily but it was still painted for a Reddit user. I’d like to improve this doodle - think of those 6-7 year old kids, imagination overflowing, and having adventures everywhere… Response I got for the work:

Thank you very much! (I already replied, but see it’s not here - so sorry for the delay!) It reminds me of “Monkey’s Island” for some reason :D

Being on a roll I decided to go do some painting on DeviantArt forum DrawPLZ. The user here asked for a Octopus.

Another DrawPLZ work. Painted one of their characters. Draw your or my OC with headphones!

Here are a bunch of Videos of the painting Progress. Enjoy:

Pencil Sketches from various locations in Levin. This sketchbook is taking me sometime to get though. I’m only using reference in it - majority are these pencil street drawings.

View from a chair in a local Church. I attended with my Father and Filipino family. The view is the inside corner of the church and windows. Someone stood in the view for sometime so I was able to capture them - certainly helps with the scale. 

Top left is a painting on the wall. Two figures. Below are curtains and such. I didn’t have time to finish this off - the scene changed somewhat when people were packing up, curtains were closed etc. I lost the scene I was drawing and stopped. I guess this is why I enjoy drawing those street scenes. Nothing changes.

A view of the swimming pool in Levin. Here you can see the hydra slide weaving down.

The rights side of the hydro slide view. Mostly trees here. People often tell me they like my tree drawings

View of Levin Mall carpark. Some tone added in areas - the pole and mountain. I’ve drawn this scene many times before, but every time it’s very different.

On the right tis a sign telling people to drive carefully. Behind this, plants and trees. to the left a stop sign, and part of a mountain continued from previous page. I’ve really started getting back into tone here, covering the tree on the left, pole and mountains with it. This is a view of sitting on Queen Street.

Lights scaling off into the distance with branches of trees behind. Plants and a car at the bottom.

Something that isn’t Levin. This is a view in Foxton. I went to Foxton with my Father to help a friend cut down trees. This is the view when I was having lunch. I was looking down towards a church.

The 2nd half of the Foxton church view. Not so much information in this. Wire stretched across the page.

Quick sketch I did at my Grandmas place. I didn’t get much artwork done when I was there, spending most of my time playing Torchlight 2

It’s been several days since my last post. I’ve been on a trip to visit my Grandma. I got a bit of drawing done there - still need to scan the works in though. I was spose to scan it at Mums this afternoon - but forgot. I’ll try to get it done tomorrow so I can get some drawings uploaded.

Here’s a recent digital painting I did in GIMP of Cuba Street. Complete with video of the painting and narration. Enjoy.

Grayscale painting of the scene. Reference was a drawing I did on Cuba Street. It’s modified somewhat - added areas. This took 20 minutes. 

The finished color painting.

Video with narration. Great pratice doing the narration - it took me several attempts. Mostly talk about colors.

Hello. It’s been sometime since I have done the Reddit SketchDaily challanges. End of last year I was doing them regularly. But I got sick it. Lately I’ve tried to get back into it, just for something more. September 24th - I Get By With a Little Help From My Friends. I choose to draw my friend Amanda. I met Amanda during my time at TLC. I had used these colors before in other paintings. It was nice to work from a photo reference - something different to the usual drawing reference.

September 25th - Organic-ification. The idea behind this was to create a organic vechal. I started with a basic car design and colored with these tree inspired colors. I could of gone further and tried to make the car more tree like.

September 26th - Gradients. I took a recent drawing I did of a family friend - Hannah into gimp. Since the theme was gradients I used a light and dark of each color. This is my favorite of the set.

Here’s a video of me painting two of these. Sadly the video of Amandas painting became corrupt.

Took a recent sketch from my sketchbook into GIMP and did a digital paint over. I recorded the painting and uploaded it to Youtube- with a voice narration over it. I’ll make these a regular feature, It’s a good habit to get into.

Anyway, onto the painting.

I started with applying line to a recent pencil sketch. The view was of the mall carpark. I started with a 20 px pen and decreased it to 5 px for the detailed areas - especially on the left.

The final painting. Here I’ve painted over with tone and removed the line layer. Looking at this now - I could have added more darks to areas - especially the tree and skyline.

Video of the painting - with voice narration.

Have a great day.

Spent most of my time this weekend at my Mums place - gave me a chance to scan in drawings that I’ve done recent around Levin.

These are all drawn in my Landscape journal - sticking with just pencil. I used a HB lead - and two different pencils - my normal clutch pencil and a new .5 mm Mecanical pencil. I’m very impressed with the tiny and delecate lines that can be produced with the mecanical pencil - Reminded me I need keep sharpaned the clutch pencil.

A view I’ve drawn several times - it’s the view of the mall carpark. I started with drawing the lamppost and continued from there. The building in the background is the new community center - it will be open at the end of September. I used a simple straight line for this building but decided to develop other areas further with tone - the lamp post and the view of the ranges in the far background. For the leaves in the trees I choose to use circles - great way to practice curved lines.

Second page of the drawing. The edge of the building, followed by the vew of ranges,  trees (to capture the leaves I just drew the overall shape). Branches are always the most fun. The closest lamp pole weaves amoungst these trees. Perspective!

Same view as the privious drawing - but focusing on a different area. The camera has been lowered and turned to the left. I had problems with guessing the perspective and scale This side is very minimal. Trees stop and the building continues. 

This was captured when sitting in the bus stop in Levin. Where the car is the exit and entry for the mall. A large tree sits on the corner with the cinema just fitting in on the right.The large street lights in the middle is one of my favorite objects I’ve captured. There is something about the looseness of the line that helps it stand out. Plenty of signs.  Focal Point Cinema. I changed the signs somewhat - which mucked up the measuring. The sign on the left should be only two lines - but I’ve made it four. I focused on the roof - capturing the square shapes that poke up. The line in the back are the coragated iron shape. 

View looking towards the swimming pool. I’m sitting on a chair with a CCTV camera hoovering overhead. It feels very invative being riabove the chair.

The pole with signs on is a major part of this - signs pointing off into various directions. Queen Street, <- P, and showing the direction of a nearby old folks home. The pillars along the bottom is an archway entry. Trees scale off into the background with a street light pole and part of the playgound.

Back of a sign in the forground. This was part of the roundabout. Several trees in the middle - towards the right is a street pole and behind that the swimming pool building.  

View is from a seat in Rose gardens. The view is looking out towards the town clock. I started with the clocktower then building the forground,  before finally including the tree in the forground. This certainly helps with scale. 

Trees. Building is here, but only minimal in the bottom left. The main focus here was the branches. I didn’t get everything correct - but just made it up and hoped it would look alright!

Here’s a quick digital painting I worked on tonight. I’ve finally got CamStudio working correctly - I want to record games and art. I own a decent microphone, it just needs a stand. Will pick one up sometime. The microphone on my old white headset is decent for now. For now there is no sound in the videos. Maybe put on some Pandora?

It had been a long time I had just painted in GIMP without tracing over an image. Helpful to start creating original paintings in GIMP using my drawings as a reference rather than just a tracing tool.

Enjoy

New colors, new approach. The reference I used for this was a sketch in Wellington - on Cuba Street. Instead of tracing over I used the sketch as visual reference. My tones are certainly stronger - It has a more painty feel!

In terms of colors - love how the green and yellow blend together beautiful. I will keep with these colors and work on a series.  This is my test palette for colors. I made this after to display the colors I used. I ended up mixing some new colors to work with as well. These may be used in a later painting.

Here are the videos:

The color test video.

Part one of Cuba Street painting. In this I work with just gray-scale.

And finally Part two of Cuba Street painting. In this I add color.

If you have not already - Humble Bundle 6 just came out.

Part two of my Wellington drawing. These have just been sitting on the server so about time to post and show.

All in pencil, drawn early September around Wellington.

Cuba Street. Including a tree that winds its way though the work. Trees are fun to draw. I especially like the one with just branches - much easier! When it comes to lots of leaves I’ve been just trying to capture the overall shape of the tree rather than focus on details.

Left side of the page. This is another Cuba Street work - looking out towards the end of the street (Op side of Hells Pizza). Behind the street poles and security cameras you can see the council buildings. The most successful areas in the are the poles.

The most successful areas is the bottom left Manners St sign. Cropping that area works.The right side - not so much. It’s a mess and the lines aren’t confident. I have nothing to work with.  Tree on Cuba Street. including some tone! These last few have been developed further to include some tonal areas - something I haven’t done for awhile with street pencil works. I like this one. It’s one of the few to include people. People always help scale - especially against that large tree. In the background to the right is an advertising stand  Someone commented that they liked the Cuba reversed. But that’s whats there. Here I’ve used some colored pencils that I picked up from the French Art Shop. I am have mixed views on these pencils - especially when it comes to the lack of detail in the line. It would be nice to have much finer detailed colored pencil that allowed me to create lines the same as HB pencil. I’m sure there is something out there. 

Shops on Cuba Street. This is a mess. Especially on the right and the bottom left is lacking information. Good that I managed to capture a figure.

I was sitting right in front of this sign. Takes up most of the page but helps scale from the shop front. In the background, a govt ‘NO’ sign.