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More doodles this time using InfinitePainter and Krita and also I added a little colour!

Simply in loving memory

More doodles this time using InfinitePainter and Krita and also I added a little colour!

I started this quite a few months back and thought I would revisit now I am catching up on all my unfinished art. Strangely I quite enjoy still art but this time I thought I would play around a little and put in a bit of a sinister twist.

Started in Infinite Painter and I wanted to apply a lot of texture in ArtRage mainly utilising the depth of the Oil Brush to define Jabbas skin. I added a tongue from the original reference and subtly introduced Yoda and Luke into the background. The main enhancement from the reference was adding more of a spotlight on the face and enhancing the saturation.

A portrait of a recently passed cat of my girlfriends parents. This took quite a while to get the proportions and the colouring correct. The final touch of a vignette blur worked pretty well which gave the depth of view and brought the focus to the face. I enhanced the eyes with a sparkle which didn’t exist in the original reference and of course needed to remember to add in the whiskers.

A portrait of my girlfriends parents. It is always tough for a portait let alone two so it took me quite a while. As you can see I did the usual background trick of duplicating and resizing the foreground which always ties things up nicely.

A commission I did for a friend of my girlfriends of their quirky cat, I very much focussed on trying to bring through the personality and enhanced the eyes with a little colour dodge and added some rim light. I decided not to over render this one as I thought the unfinished look worked quite well.

Part of a big multipart commission I completed. The first time I had really done some art for a sizeable amount of money. This was created from an initial brief. Firstly I produced some sketches to make sure I was going in the right direction with comments and modifications along the way. I tweaked my style slightly generally to be more of an illustrative look and had to focus more on a playful theme rather than the dark edge I usually employ.

Part of a big multipart commission I completed. The first time I had really done some art for a sizeable amount of money. This was created from an initial brief. Firstly I produced some sketches to make sure I was going in the right direction with comments and modifications along the way. I tweaked my style slightly generally to be more of an illustrative look and had to focus more on a playful theme rather than the dark edge I usually employ.

Part of a big multipart commission I completed. The first time I had really done some art for a sizeable amount of money. This was created from an initial brief. Firstly I produced some sketches to make sure I was going in the right direction with comments and modifications along the way. I tweaked my style slightly generally to be more of an illustrative look and had to focus more on a playful theme rather than the dark edge I usually employ.

Part of a big multipart commission I completed. The first time I had really done some art for a sizeable amount of money. This was created from an initial brief. Firstly I produced some sketches to make sure I was going in the right direction with comments and modifications along the way. I tweaked my style slightly generally to be more of an illustrative look and had to focus more on a playful theme rather than the dark edge I usually employ.

Part of a big multipart commission I completed. The first time I had really done some art for a sizeable amount of money. This was created from an initial brief. Firstly I produced some sketches to make sure I was going in the right direction with comments and modifications along the way. I tweaked my style slightly generally to be more of an illustrative look and had to focus more on a playful theme rather than the dark edge I usually employ.

Part of a big multipart commission I completed. The first time I had really done some art for a sizeable amount of money. This was created from an initial brief. Firstly I produced some sketches to make sure I was going in the right direction with comments and modifications along the way. I tweaked my style slightly generally to be more of an illustrative look and had to focus more on a playful theme rather than the dark edge I usually employ.

This took me a loooooong time, probably because the subject matter is bother complicated and potentially a bit stale meaning that I had to work extra hard on it. I applied texture layer after texture layer and eventually got to a point I was moderately happy with.

It was Christmas so what better way to celebrate than producing a robin. The idea behind this was to make the style like a christmas card. This one was one of those that came together very quickly in a couple of hours and I quickly decided that it was completed.

Started in InfinitePainter over christmas, the main focus being a warm complimentary colour and the focus of the detail being the chalet, and just popped in a snowman for a bit of fun. The balance between a vignette contrast was key here.

Another started in InfinitePainter, I always quite enjoy the still life art and embellished a little with the writing on the side and tried to make the jar really pop out. It is not always easy to add life to an inanimate object, I think that is probably why I generally prefer portraits.

I originally started this piece about a year ago and had it hanging around for while, when I revisited I replaced the original cat with a dog and added a teddy bear. Very much experimenting with this by piecing previous art together and trying out the canvas textures again, which I always forget.

I don’t often do a full body piece as I prefer to focus on the face so I get a bit caught up in not putting enough detail into the face itself. I overlaid a texture file created from playing around with GIMP to give the effect of rain and changed up the background from the original reference.

I had lots of fun with this one, I initially tried a spherical stencil in ArtRage to get the basic shading and then went from there. I followed quite closely to the reference with extra emphasis on the top down lighting and a changeup of the colours

All three of them!, I tweaked Winnifred a little and blended her hair with the other two using the palette knife in ArtRage. Originally I had Winnifred a lot lower down but it didn’t really seem to work so I added a little more chin and aligned with the others.

The first of the Sanderson sisters that I attempted, the final version here is a little different than my original idea when it came to typing all three of the sisters together, originally I had also cropped out the lower part of the chin (as an accident) and it seemed to work well, but eventually relented.

This was actually the second Sanderson sister I completed but set the tone for all three of them. I went for a more comic book graphical look rather than get too realistic and I think the flatter look of the face worked quite well for this, I then went and retrospectively tweaked the Winnifred portrait to align better with this style as I over sharpened / saturated / contrasted and impastoed the original.

The third Sanderson sister that I attempted, struggled a little, I think mainly due to the flat lighting on the the reference so had to add my own in for interest. I paid a little more attention on the shadow colour to focus more on a dark saturated red rather than a boring shadow to black which is what I normally do.

A suggestion from my girlfriend to create a poster featuring our cat Binx and the aforementioned girlfriend. Each aspect is former art that I have combined. For example Binx was overlaid almost as is (with the extra fangs of course). The slayer body came from my portrait of a terminator with the head from a portrait of my girlfriend. The background was a very old piece I did featuring a scary tree to slide in the moonlight.

This was a portrait I completed for my mum’s 70th I really struggled with this one, I think it was the combination of: It being a self portrait Two portraits More of the body shown It took quite a lot of fiddling with GIMP to get everything to mesh together, I think the background as always was the key which was taken from as of yet an unfinished piece of:

Much experimentation using the Krtia rgba brushes, one of these paintings where I literally had no idea what I was going to do and was more of trying to get an ArtRage impasto effect by using ArtRage. I am really trying hard to use Krita as it is open source but I can’t really get on with it, maybe ArtRage, GIMP and Infinite painter are just too much aligned to my muscle memory presently.