40min Film Studies

So I've been doing this daily '40 min Film study' to increase my speed and improve my overall shape usage. I'm trying to be more decisive with the strokes. trying to get clean accurate edges to save me from having to clean them up later on which wastes so much time! also trying to hold back from doing details till the last 5-10mins. This is proving to be quite difficult tho :/ The time limit really highlights areas I need to work on, and to think before commiting to a stroke. I'm still colour picking which I would like to stop doing when I get a bit better the accuracy/proportions of my shapes. Here they are in chronological order.

 

 

New Years in Dingle, Co.Kerry

Just back from spending an amazing New years in Dingle Co.Kerry with old friends. Definately one of the most serene locales I've had the pleasure of visiting. Took a couple of days off from painting so thought I get back into the swing of things with this little speedpaint to start off what will hopefully be a super productive 2015. Hope everyone had a good Christmas and a Happy New Year! PEACE (-_-)

Robotpencil Mentorship

So I've just fiished up a month long mentorship in 'Dynamic Lighting' with Anthony Jones. Needless to say, I've learned a hell of a lot. My head is still reeling as I try find the time to incorporate what ive learned into some new artwork. Here are the finished portfolio pieces from the mentorship along with other paintings I've done in between them. Hope you like them!

Piece 1, 'Red'

Piece 2, 'Gyo The Great'

Piece 3, 'Homeland Security'

Brainstorm Design Challenge: Steampunk Ironman

Artsource Illustration, titled 'Spawn'

Hunt and Gathers' Dead Celebrity Exhibition Submission: 'Amy'

Speedpainting, titled 'Outpost'

First post in a long time!

I've really been neglecting this blog! My Facebook page has taken over as my primary blog so if you want to know what I'm currently up to, heading there would be your best bet. I have a lot on my plate at the moment anyways, I've an exhibition in a weeks time, a mentorship with Anthony Jones, Commissions and a VFX Summit to look forward to. In the meantime, I thought I'd post a few bits I've been working on for the past couple of weeks. Enjoy!

Commisioned Illustration for Animated short Titled "Blood"

Environment speedpainting from a personal project

"Project Stellar", A Brainstorm Design Challenge

Samurai Orc

Commisioned Illustration Titled "Hannibal Ad Portas"

Speedpainting of Martian Landscape

Updated version of a previous piece, "Sunken Temple Mk2"

'Shoot' Wins Best Animation at The Fingal Film Fest

Our student film 'Shoot' just won best animation film at the fingal film fest. Happy days!!

Bridge To The Spirit World

'Bridge To The Spirit World', 1h30mins with 20mins of searching for good photos. Good practice as I'm trying to improve at matte painting

Time-lapse of process found HERE

Journey Across The Kingdoms

2 hr Speedpainting

I started this sketch with the aim of improving my use of colours. Having started with no perliminary sketch i quickly ran into design problems and not long after with values. I reckon my brain can't tackle keeping track of  values, good design and colour theory all at once and eventually I ended up quite frustrated. Looking over the time-lapse highlights the importance of a solid drawing to provide structure and finialise a design and a value pass to establish the lighting so that colours can be dealt with once all the hard stuff is out of the way.

Blood Wizard

Speedpaint for Super Speedpainting Funtimes Facebook Group

Real Time: 1hr 14mins

Went way over the 50min time limit. I decided on a major design change quite late into the sketch which cost me a lot of time. At 50mins it looked worse than at 20mins so had to try salvage what was left by goin over time. Hopefully I've learned for the next one. Heavily influenced by Anthony jones. His stuff is outrageously good.

Timelapse Video found HERE

The Sadness of Titans

 A painting done for the Super Speedpainting Funtimes Facebook group. This is my first post to the group. I spent too much time fiddling with the overall composition because I went into the painting with no planning and before I knew it, the time was up! I know better now for the next piece. These speedpaints are a great exercise for fine tuning your workflow. Ive also started to record all my paintings as it reveals patterns in my problem solving process that I need to work on.

Real time: 50mins

Robin Williams Caricature - Timelapse

Facial Study/caricature of the great Robin Williams. R.I.P

Hi-res image HERE

Brainstorm Design Challenge 4

Very bad for posts the last 2 weeks. Being kept busy with commissions but here is my entry for Brainstorm Design challenge 4. A mixture between a vampire squid and a bat.

Brainstorm Design Challenge No.2

Design challenge for Brainstorm this week. Military crossed with dinosaur bones. Was fun coming up with ideas for this. I settled on this concept, an off world sniper stationed on some sort of prehistoric desert planet. Going for months at a time in isolation behind enemy lines, he uses his training, oftentimes scavenging to stay alive. That's basically the story behind this character so I hope that reads in the final piece

Value Study

Quick value study between illustrations.

Brainstorm

Here are 2 pieces for a design challenge hosted by Brainstorm. I did the first one quick last night and hated it so started again this afternoon. It's crazy how much faster you can learn when your work is put up alongside the best in the business.

Busy with commissions/Job hunting/portfolio prep so havn't been able to post much this week. Did these quick colour studies yesterday as a warm up for illustration work.

Speedpaint

Speedpaint done late at night someday last week...

Studies done last week

Quite busy this week with commissions so thought I'd re-post these studies from my FB page onto here. Really enjoyed these, lots learned!