Study in Oil - Man With Staff

Oil on paper 24 x 32 cm

While it is awfully hard to put aside my digital ways, I try; at least to broaden my horizon. This is a study from photo, done over a few hours.
The purpose was to experience skin colour and shape in paint more than to make an accurate replica of the photo, although it should of course resemble the source. Still I regret the slightly stupid look of his left eye.
I was foolish enough to think I could sit in the back of the room, away from the windows, by a combination of energy saving and halogen lights and get decent colours. As a result the image is slightly greener than intended, as the overly orange light had me compensating.

The Portal Mason

After doing a little more work on the poster for Max: The Curse of Brotherhood (which came out yesterday, woop woop) I felt like doing some proper painterly stuff again.

So this is The Portal Mason, a stone artisan, specialised in the art of scribing magical symbols and geometry in order to craft portals.

It took several shorter and longer sessions over the course of a few weeks to make this A0 sized digital painting, I don't know exactly how long. Finally a shout-out to my colleagues at Press Play for giving comments and critique for the final tweaks of the image.

Sir Chin-Alot

Spent a short hour doodling after hours at the office, before heading out for a night on the town.

Quite unfinished its nothing special, only a bit of fun with proportion and wrinkles.

Wheelchair Warrior

Wheelchair Warrior - Lineart

I wanted to draw some fantasy madness and take it over the top, inspired by the art from Torchlight which to me caries a great sense of volume and weight.
However, to twist it a little I decided to make a character which wasn't just a run of the mill hero. Might get around to colour it sometime.

6 hours in photoshop, using a photo reference and the hard round brush.

While painting digitally after a photo of a nude model isn't "the real" deal, or very original, I enjoyed working somewhat traditional. I didn't use any adjustment layers, effects, clipping masks or blending layers, just ye olde round brush. I didn't really time it, but my guess is that it took around 6 hours.
I quite like the outcome.

Oh and the ref was nicked from http://figuresfordrawing.tumblr.com/

Here's some process