Hydrologic Flow Modulators

Been awhile, seems like I write that on just about every post here. I've actually got a few paintings I've been sitting on, this was of course one of those. They are the paintings I like parts of but can't seem to make them something I'm truly proud of; not a big deal but a little frustrating. Anyhow, I shouldn't let it hold me back from progress or posting.

http://www.divshare.com/download/7466905-693

Here is a link to the PSD if you'd like, you can follow the progress of the painting from beginning to end. The only layers I've collapsed are rendering layers, not that important.

There's nice warm weather up here, might become apparent in future paintings.
In the mean time, I'm off to scan in some sketches to post over here;

www.sketchpadofdoom.blogspot.com

Noodles

I've been noodling this for far too long. It actually dates back a month or two, but I kept forgetting to check the values on a few different computers. *shrugs* Finished it just the other day.

Anyhow, don't really hate winter any more. I'd almost miss it if I didn't love spring and summer. I really think the seasons should change more often though, once a month or something.

Going to write up a bit of a walk through on this one for an upcoming publication, stay tuned :)

Oh and if you weren't aware of my other blog; sketchpadofdoom.blogspot.com I've been updating there too!

And yet ... more winter.

Snowed again today. February always tricks me once or twice. Tch tch.

Tired of working on this one, lots of problems and a broken composition. Yet, time to move on :)

I'm going to go reply to the last post now :)

Boycott Winter! Join the fight!

Been awhile! I'm back to painting personal art, I think the holiday vacations played a vital role in that. I've been doing studies and such since the last post but hadn't done any personal illustrations.

Anyhow, this is a quicker one. Lots that could and should be fixed but I'm ready to move on, speaking of which - a few more paintings in the pipeline and hopefully soon.

New things; Manual Opacity, No pressure sensitive opacity, some new color thoughts, pinlight fill layers, crazy amount of layer effect glazing. Check the PSD below if you are interested, it has the full messy process, hehe.

http://www.divshare.com/download/6258528-f23

Edge of Dawn

I feel this deserves more polish, so much that needs a little more love and sections that need simply to be redone. But it's past the expiration date as far as my motivation goes; I feel the urge to move on to learn new things with a new painting is far stronger than the urge for a finished work.

Anyhow, learned so many good things on this painting and it felt good to exercise a few muscles other than the environment variety for a bit. The canvas texture you may see in the back is actually from a plein aire painting I did on a work outing. The painting looks nothing like this, but the outing was still vital to the overall mood and palette of this painting. I need to get out and paint more, so good for me.

Hope it's not too dark, but I'm sure it is :P

TechnicolorCrayon

Here is one I've squeezed in every now and then, a few minutes here a few minutes there...
In the past I would usually start and finish a painting in one sitting, but in the past I used to have a lot more free time. It's been interesting to come back to a painting every few days, it has it's benefits and drawbacks...

Here is the PSD if you are interested;
it's got lots of layers to show progress and much larger :)
http://www.mediafire.com/?y1dmqjcdynz