DAY 3: STATUE

My third practice painting of a Diadoumenos sculpture. Credits to Calvin Carter of Flickr. I took around 3 hours to finish this. It was rather difficult to get the right values around the face working. It doesn't look exactly like the original but hey, it's an exercise on tonal values and not so much on accuracy right? (just my way of making myself feel better)

DAY 2: WHAT'S YOUR POINT?

Apart from practicing digital painting, I'm trying to get into the habit of sketching as well. Last night, I decided to study hands and fingers since these are definitely my pitfall. I sketched up a few drawings on a sketchbook and pencil and immediately knew what I was going to paint next. So, instead of using pictures from the net this time, I used my own finger.  I didn't think this was going to take too long, I mean, it's just one finger as oppose to a hand. Well, this took me about 2.5 hours to do. It took that long since I just took my time and really wanted to incorporate what I could've done differently with the Lil Girl painting. I noticed that my previous painting looked rather dark from afar and "cleaning up" the edges was what I lacked. I tried to get both of those things I noticed into this painting this time and I hope to continue finishing one painting per day.

DAY 1: LIL GIRL

This is my first painting after lesson 1 of Bobby Chiu's digital painting class on Schoolism.com. I found a picture on the net (my apologies for not acknowledging the owner since I wasn't able to take note of it. I didn't think I'd be posting this online to begin with)  and used that as my reference for this exercise. I found that with this method, I was surprised to be able to paint  much much quicker than my previous paintings, it was less frustrating and more fun. I do however need to learn more about light and shading since figuring out where the light and shadow was coming from in this picture was already a given.

AN EGG, A STRAWBERRY AND A KIWI

I stumbled upon a fascinating artist who goes by the name of Jos Van Riswick in Youtube. He does one painting a day (using real paint on canvas) and as one who is eager to learn how to paint digitally, I used his video as reference to see how far I can push pixels with it.

NOT THE EYEBROW

HEY! IT'S SUMMER!

WOOLY RHINO

IT'S A CAT...MOUSE..THING

NIGHTIES

MOUSE