Wellington Street Draw – Halloween
I recently got back from a weeks holiday in Wellington. During that time I spent hours on the street of Wellington sketching. For months I have been doing these daily ‘sketchcrawls’ around Levin. It...
View ArticleConcept Art: Railway
I’ve started taking the drawings from Wellington into GIMP to produce digital paintings. I tend to do far more drawings than digital paintings. It’s my goal this month to pump out digital paintings of...
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Continued taking the drawings from Wellington into GIMP and turn them into Concept Artwork. This was one of my favorite drawings I did well in Wellington – Waterfront on Sunday morning. When I lived in...
View ArticleRedditgets drawn – part two
Here are a bunch of portrait paintings I did at the end of October. I kept with similar colors though the pieces – like the scape works – certainly helps the harmony of the overall look. The cat was...
View ArticleLevin Tower
Awake early this morning – 5am. Wanted to get straight into the digital painting. I first checked Reddit SketchDaily – Free Draw Friday. Fantastic – can just do a street scene. I mashed together three...
View ArticleLevin Church
I didn’t do a concept art environmental work yesterday so wanted to make sure I did one today. I haven’t been getting out and drawing on the street. I have been drawing everyday, but it’s been at...
View ArticleLevin Tower Seq
I haven’t been happy with the latest digital paintings I’ve been doing. It’s been a struggle. Oh well. I got Dads scanner working on my laptop so I can go back to scanning my sketchbooks in. I did one...
View ArticleLily Allen
Spent the morning organizing files and posts. Working on getting a large Borderlands 2 painting post together – it’s been a fun side project. For now though – here’s a Lily Allen figure and portrait I...
View ArticleLevin Rose
Digital painting fom the sketchbook reference. This was done a few weeks ago – I’m just catching up on the digital paintings I’ve missed uploading. So here we go – taking two drawings I did into GIMP –...
View Articleca skl
Reference used. In total this is three drawings. The top left is a view from Levin North School, below is the same image rotated 180 degrees. This is scaled down as well. I wanted to attempt a...
View ArticlePalmy Skate
I have been changing a few brush settings in GIMP to get different effects. Most notable I enabled opacity pressure sensitive. In the past I’ve always had this pressure sensitive set to just size – so...
View ArticleCourt Garden
I’ve decided to change my video settings to 1080 up from 720. The quality is worth it. I’m not partically happy with this painting but happy that I’m trying new things in GIMP – full screen and color...
View ArticleAlcemy Landscape
Now for something completely different. I was inspired by PixelTuners video that I watched earlier this week decided to open Alchemy (was happily surprised to find it on the desktop). The focus was...
View ArticleReddit Gets Drawn: Group
Instead of drawing just a single portrait I decided to fill my page with a range of different portraits – all from RedditGetsDrawn. I’ve been playing lots of Borderlands 2, working on a comic and...
View ArticleRedditGetsDrawn: Wild Thing
As a child where the Wild Things Was a favorite book. For this request on RedditGetsDrawn I was asked too draw this child with Wild Things. I did a quick google search for reference and found this...
View ArticleYeah Town
It’s been a busy few days – I’ve been going into my Mothers work and doing painting with the kids – 4 year olds. When I made it home I got stuck into a digital paintings in GIMP. It’s been a awhile...
View ArticleNude Wellington
I used GIMP on my laptop last night to mash together reference for the painting this morning. Preparing it last night meant I was able to get straight into the painting this morning. Here’s the...
View Articlewel true
Several days since my last update. Had a birthday… though I never enjoy birthdays. For the painting today I took a older line work I had done in GIMP and added tone and color. Compard to the origiI‘ve...
View ArticleRed Lake
Currently sitting in Levin library. Thought I’d better make a post since it’s been a few days. I’ve been more focused on Python code recently than painting. I feel I’m making some large strides forward...
View ArticleRedditDrawn Doubles
Good morning. The art creation has been slow as of recently. I even tried to draw last night. I sat on a table and had my sketchbook and clutch pencil. I just couldn’t do it. I was unable to draw. It...
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