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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.
This is my pencil drawings from Wellington. I had only one sketchbook with me – the hardcover landscape shape. The first half is covered with pencil works of city street views.
These were all drawn over 4 days in Wellington. Cuba Street, Lambton Quay, and the railway station. This is part one of the posts
Cuba Street. All these drawings are backwards. I really enjoy drawing the trees in Cuba Street. It’s especially helpful if they don’t have leaves (or minimal) and just branches. The branches are getting easier to draw – it’s just observation and perspective.
Waiting for the train to Levin. I ate crackers and humus as I drew the view. Plants were scattered about the area. I’ve got plant shapes that I’ve been developing. Basically applying the same techniques that I do to the figure and break it down into common shapes. This allows me to look at an object and capture it using my own drawing techniques.
Those security cameras are everywhere. I love to draw them watching me. I often use them as a starting point – measuring out from there.
I’m not a fan of text in artwork. You know those paintings where the artist has gone ahead and written angry text over an otherwise decent oil painting. Illustration like this is different – this is trying to convey a visual message or story.
Cafe view on Cuba Street. The hardest challenge was working with perspective. I must be improving with it…. it’s certainly became a large interest for me.
Chairs are from a cafe, these help add scale to the image.
Night view of Cuba Street. The major change for these line drawings is the circle lights that scale down into the horizon.
I could see myself taking elements from these scenes into Blender and modeling out the objects. Create my own version of Cuba St.
On Saturday I had Aunty Menas for lunch. It was a delicious meal – carrot mash, tofu, and green salad. I drank plenty of water with it! This is the view from my table – looking out onto Cuba Street. Shops were across the road – I focused on capturing the windows. Cars parked – these changed but I manged to capture the idea. In the foreground is the door to Aunty Menas. I focused on the frame, windows and handle.
This is one of my smaller drawings I did – ending it before the end of the first page. I covered the rest of the page with a drawing on Courtney Place. This idea came from none other than Robert from TLC. He mentioned to me on Friday I could use the idea of separation to create ‘other worlds’.
The other side of Aunty Menas/Courtney Place. I’ve drawn this Courtney Place scene before. Reminds me I need to dig up the work and see how different I’ve captured it. I included some basic figures in the scene – helps with scale.
Part 2 later in the week. Digital paint overs also.