Finally a personal piece.

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A dragon rider with her dragon comrade, preparing for the race and battles up ahead.
Always wanted to paint something cool and fantasy, with dragons. haha. Here is my first attempt.
Hope you like it.

Learnt how to fold a paper plane today!! =D

Decided to do a quick still life study of a paper plane.
( I actually googled to learn how to fold this one… haha).

Still going with values.
Painted a dude for a change.
Its interesting to see how much you can get away with a guy when rendering the skin.
There are less subtle changes due to the muscle forms, but it is also because of it that there is so much to take care of. =.=

Not entirely satisfied with this. But my patience with a dude is limited .
Will attempt another one soon i guess.

Original Photo: Kamil Nicalek

Still going with the value studies.
Trying to learn something with less dramatic lighting. It’s extremely hard for me to paint all the subtle tone variations.
They look simple, but it took tons minor tweaking to get it right. Yet I am still not 100% satisfied with it. Should practice more on this area.

Photo ref: Takiguchi Hikari [link]

Alright. Onward to the next!!

More photo studies, targeted to learn more about values and edge control.

Unfortunately I couldn’t remember where i get this image.
Love how the light falls on her.

Onward to the next~~
Unfortunately I couldn’t remember where i get this image.
Love how the light falls on her.

Onward to the next~~

A tonal study of Bernini’s Sculpture: The Ecstasy of Saint Therese.

Looking back at my paintings, I think I was too impatient and jump too many steps, trying too fast to produce a complete illustration.
It causes me to pick up some bad habits in rendering and I realized that my fundamentals are still lacking. I know the theories, but sadly not too much about applying them.

So, to solve it, I will be doing some throw back practice. Back to tonal, learning to render forms etc. This time, I will make sure I dont get impatient and really internalize all the knowledge I learnt so far.

So here is a study of a sculpture. Hope you like it.

A new portrait study of Hermione Granger (Emma Watson)..
Feel a little weird to say that I painted Emma Watson since she is all grown up now. Plus, its from a screen shot of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone anyway.
Got to say, their acting in the first movie are really decent. It’s no wonder that the movie got famous. Not a lot of book adaptation involving young actors did well these days.

Oh well, I started this painting as I would like to expand to painting a bigger age group in characters. So get ready for more kids studies.

It feels great to be painting again. Will try to keep a more frequent update..

Finally done.. another quick study during the weekend..
Experimented with some stuff and techniques, learnt a bunch from this..

Here is the link to Itsuki-chan cosplay.
https://www.facebook.com/ItsukiChanCosplayer

Some of her photos are awesome!!

Here are the some process shots..

Alright.. onwards to the next one!!

A quick update on a photo study that i am working on.. This is just the line art..
I always find it difficult to draw from this angle.. especially to make the lines look appealing. (particularly at the nostril area)..
Will keep working on it..

Photo from Itsuki-chan Cosplay..