HemiArt: February 2011

Saturday, February 19, 2011

Coloring Practice

I'm reasonably happy with this (probably my favorite 'speed painting' to date) so I'm breaking it out into a single post. My reference for this particular piece is Victorria Johnson (the model for Morrigan in the Dragon Age: Origins.) While I was doing the usual Google-Fu for references I happened across an interview she did and she seems like a huge Bioware/Dragon Age fan and all around interesting person so that certainly added to the fun of making this.

Victorria Johnson

Total time: ~4 Hours

Media: Photoshop / Intuos Tablet

Bonus~!
Dragon Age: Origins Sacred Ashes Trailer ... because I think Blur did an awesome job with this and so I love to share it.

Coloring Practice

James Harrison

Total time: ~2 Hours

Media: Photoshop / Intuos Tablet

I started doing this one for one of my friends but then I got kind of lazy and frustrated since the reference image is really small so when I would enlarge it I'd end up with a really grainy reference. Maybe one day I'll give him another try with a better reference photo to start with.

Thursday, February 17, 2011

Coloring practice

Yvonne Strahovski

Total time: ~3 Hours

Media: Photoshop / Intuos Tablet

I started this one because there was a lot of Mass Effect 2 going on in the background at my house so every time I would look up there was Miranda booty on the screen so I figured why not. I feel like I should go back and finish this one because I like the way it looks so far.

Henry Clavill

Total time: ~2 Hours

Media: Photoshop / Intuos Tablet

This was the beginning of my "Wait... the guy they cast to be in the next Superman is really handsome" phase which has subsequently resulted in my recent addiction to The Tudors (aka Sexy History) on Netflix. Go figure.

Henry Clavill

Total time: ~2 Hours

Media: Photoshop / Intuos Tablet

This one ended up really stylized and spent a good bit of time looking like "Sheploo" from Mass Effect because I had made the over all shape of the head wrong. Ah well, live and learn :)

Wednesday, February 16, 2011

Coloring Practice

Another backlog post... I ended up changing the format I was coloring in because it was an incredibly long week at work and I was doing good to keep my eyes open much less anything coherent.

Simon Pegg (day 1)

Total time: ~2 Hours

Media: Photoshop / Intuos Tablet

I think I was at work for about 10.5/11 hours on the day that I was trying to work on this so all things considered the progress was okay. I really want to go back and use him as a reference again when I'm a little more coherent.

Simon Pegg (day 2)

Media: Photoshop / Intuos Tablet

I ended up going back the next day and adding a little bit of hair and detail but that was about as far as I got with it..

Helen Mirren

Media: Photoshop / Intuos Tablet

I think this is one of my least favorite attempts thus far but, I figured I might as well post it anyway as it's still good to document my progress... even when it's a step backward.

Saturday, February 12, 2011

Coloring practice

I got seriously behind on posting my daily painting practice so I'm going to try to lump 2-3 days worth into a post until I manage to finally catch up. In this particular post I'll include days 12-15. I think I'm up to around day 28 of solid practice at this point.