master studies and a character design

color studies

master study 05

master study 06

I think originals are by Eugen Bracht

trying to design a character

~olyadbg

Master Studies

I realized its time to start with master studies.
And with these studies I understood how much I was afraid to use saturated colors...
you can see this behavior in the first studies. fourth one is best so far and still there's so much to learn.

I have to say that the point isn't about copying. it's about understanding colors. 
so of course no color pick and no tracing and no nothing. 

I have to admit that I kinda cheated in the third one. in the end I used Photoshop saturation. still looks like shit. but in the fourth I had new information to avoid such tricks! 

Its not bad using photoshop tools in general. but when the whole point is to learn how to pick correct colors by myself, its useless.

artists:
1 - Albert Bierstadt-Merced River,YosetimiValley
2 - Eugen Bracht
3 - Antonio Torres Fuster (Tarragona, 1874-1945)
4 - lute-player-1635-Bernardo-Strozzi


I only did 4 and already feel like I got better. :D
I need to study like my life depends on it.


~olyadbg

face studies

face studies

I think I'm getting better but I'm still lazy with the details

original: Reference

and before drawing Ian McKellen I tried to draw a random chick

and I failed so hard 

looks nothing like the original 

I don't know why I even care

it's not like I want to make portraits 

I thought, since it's face study and I'm posting a link to the reference I have to make it a real portrait... so it would look pretty much alike...

and the whole point is just to know how to shade a face and colour it.

so I don't know...

oh I almost forget

my first attempt in Zbrush! I'm a total noob

but we had a zbrush class in College (Concept design course)

They gave us homework to make 5 heads

the first one is supposed to be a shitty one to get used to the program.

and it's supposed to be a learning process.

I just sculpted as it was simple clay

so it was kind of fun

here it is, didn't use reference (forgot to research out of excitement)

oh well... XD

it's something!

~olyadbg

color&value face study and something

I'm kind of ashamed that it looks nothing like the original, and no it's not Putin.

It's a face and value study and I probably have to give you the reference and I really don't want to because I failed so much lol... 

but here it is: Reference

but I guess it's ok because I'm not looking for making portraits so it would look exactly like the original but it's a great skill that needs to be obtained over time.

after that I did another study

in this one I didn't really try to look like the original and well.. its really far from looking the same

in this study I practiced using color with multiply layer and screen layer

It looks nothing like the original: Reference

and a project for my Concept Art course 

I wanted to challange myself and I did, it was very complicated for me.
Though it really doesnt look that great and I learned a lot from this piece.

I had a lot of mistakes and next time you will all see my progress

I don't like this piece... but I'll get pro 

~olyadbg

best study ever

I'm so tired, such a long day
I went to work today and right after that to college (concept art course) 
it's about 11 pm and I thought of doing a color study 
who else if not from Frazetta

so tired but happy I started this study though I might continue it tomorrow...

~olyadbg

Random drawing studies

gestures

For Daily Spitpaing (facebook group) done in 30 minutes

wood eating demon:

color study

sketch for home work 

~olyadbg

color study and spitpainting

color study, worked with big brushes

and a drawing done for a facebook group called Spitpaint

the point of the group is drawing something in 30 minutes that is related to a certain topic

I did "Floating Tree"

my first spitpainting, it kind of weird

next spitpainting will be better!!

~olyadbg

Color Study

Here is a color study from the book "Color and Light" by James Gurney

There's a piece there by Martin Keane

The face has more complex colors, the nose and cheeks area is more red.
The zone from the nose to the chin tends towards blue or green and the forehead is more yellow.

I used a big brush and I know it doesn't look very good
and comparing to the original it's almost horrible
but it's a start
...



next color study will be better 
maybe one day I'll recreate this study and we will all see the progress :P


~olyadbg