Plein Air Painting # 1

I'm taking a plein air painting class,and this is my first outdoor painting.



Hopefully I'll have a decent picture to post every week, and at the end of the class I can put the all together into one post and see how it all looks.

Moar Stellas

I HAD cleaned up today's sketch in PS and added a border and made it nice and pretty. But then photoshop decided to break when I tried to save and I'm lucky it didn't take the rest of my computer with it. Unfortunately, I just plain do NOT have the time to go back and redo it. =( (I wish I did. It had a nice little colored background and everything.) But alas, more urgent things than my blog come a' calling.

ROBOT DINOSAUR HORSE COW THING FROM SPACE

Color test for future painting. I don't think it'll have any brown.



'Nother super messy page, though. I'M TIRED, DANGIT, LEAVE ME ALONE.

Stella Sketches

A few Stella sketches- hopefully they aren't too hard to see. I've been playing around with figuring out how to clean them up and I think I almost have something that works, but it's getting late and I don't want to perfect the technique tonight. I want to go to sleep instead of wrassling with photoshop. :P



A few faces. Cleaned up versions of a few of these may make it onto a character sheet I want to put together. I want to do a short comic about her, but it won't make sense unless you know a little of her background. =)

Filler Post

Still haven't gotten at the scanner, so I'm going to make a little filler post here to show you all just how hard I fail. xD This is the remnants leftover from my first attempt at digital painting since I was about 14.




My first attempt, done by drawing straight into photoshop with my sadly neglected tablet. Abandoned for obvious reasons.




Hand drawn and inked lineart. Took about 15 minutes, all told. Much nicer. :P I scanned it in black and white, but I'm not entirely happy with how that came out so I think I'm not going to do that next time.




My first attempt at coloring. Here I tried to do a little stuff with the smudge tool, but I didn't really like it. I need to get my tablet working properly so I can try to master actual shading techniques.





And the final version. I kept reading a lot of tutorials while I was trying to color it the first time, and I implemented a lot of new tricks when I restarted. I started trying to do gradient blending, but the only place I got it looking okay was on the chainsaw blade. Nice for metal, stood out strangely everywhere else.



And finally, just for yucks, one of those pictures from when I was 14.





MS Paint, bitches.

Old Sketch

Just an old sketch, since I haven't been at the scanner in a while.




WHY YES, THAT IS MORE POKEYMANS.

Colored Pencil Sketches

Today, a couple of colored pencil sketches.




Stella



And Anni. She is my friends character, and you can find a bunch of her art here: http://nellyonly.deviantart.com/


I tried to clean these up a little in PS, but I don't think I did that great a job. I'm not that great at playing with levels yet. :P

More Pokey-mans

Mudkip Rage

The lines for a picture I'm working on. <3 Why yes, that is an angry Mudkip holding a chainsaw with a little heart on it. Why do you ask?

Badass 80's Gnome Chick

A couple sketches of a gnome character I designed for my sister. The first one looks like some kind of angry 80's gnome chick.

Sketches

Just a few sketches I've done recently.