DSP - Three Wheels

I really wanted to draw a passenger leaning out of the car madly and futilely grabbing for the tire but I couldn't make it work within the 30 minute limit.

I apologize to the person whose canyon photo I referenced.  This picture is nothing but personal practice.

DSP - Tomb Guardian

I love small rabbity creatures with great gnashing teeth ffft fffttt

DSP - Fire Temple

Today's speedpaint, the Fire Temple.

Daily Spitpaint - Riot

I joined the Daily Spitpaint, to get more sketching in.  I do a lot more work from life now, but not nearly as much idle creative play.  The Daily Spitpaint is a Facebook group which posts several daily topics and participants create a speedpainting in 30 minutes or less.  It's not only good practice, but it's fun too.

Colour Study

Quick colour study from random photo on Flickr.

Colour Study

From a random photo on Flickr.

Colour Study

From a random photo on Flickr.

Colour Study

From a random photo on Flickr.

Colour Study

More colour studies this week.

Colour Study

Colour study from random photo on Flickr.

Colour Study

Colour study from random photo on Flickr.

Identical - WIP

Colour Study

Colour study from random Flickr photo.

Funeral

Speedpaint scene. Minimal reference. Loosely inspired by the funeral scene in Pamela Dean's "The Hidden Land".

Speed Scenes - Owl's Well That Ends Well

The opening scene from Donna Andrews's "Owl's Well That Ends Well".

Speed Scenes - Bonehunters

An excerpt from one of the Malazan books. Not entirely happy with the central figure (I think it's Apsalar) but hey -- there's only so much you can do with a speed painting and no ref.

Speed Scenes - Merchant

Not from a book this time. Just a scene I was thinking of.

Speed Scenes

Since my last digital painting didn't turn out so well I'm taking my husband's advice and doing some speed-paintings setting up scenes from books. It feels like I'm falling down on the roughs, so the roughs have to improve. I'm trying to improve depth and lighting.

Gregor & Bennis from Jane Haddam's fabulous mystery series:

Apple

Painting practice with the new tablet:

From this pic by dazzle-textures.

Palace of Science and Culture

Digital painting from this lovely stock photo.

I needed to practice some architecture and this caught my eye partly because the colours are so great and partly because I saw the building myself a few years ago when I was in Warsaw. The locals think it's an eyesore (it was a "gift" from the Soviet Union) but I kinda like it. :)

Aboyt 2.5 hours in Photoshop.