30 day, paint a day.

zacvrono

Trying to learn speed painting in the 30 minute area. I'll be posting them all here. Critiques are welcome/appreciated. I did this one yesterday, so I'll be posting a 2nd one today.

zacvrono

Day 2 (crap this one is terrible):

lotet

I think second one is much better for sure. Id say use even bigger brushes, and maybe try out the lasso tool to block out shapes.

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lotet said:

I think second one is much better for sure. Id say use even bigger brushes, and maybe try out the lasso tool to block out shapes.

Really? oh cool. Hmm, I will try bigger brush strokes. Ah ya forgot to use the lasso. I will try focusing on those 2 things for day 4 (already finished to day's).

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Day 3 (focused on having a lot of texture on this one):

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Day 4, trying to make giant brushes and lasso do work for me:

brucemoose

Looks cool so far. I would encourage you to push your value range to get a bit more depth and feeling of distance.

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Day 4 (tried to add more depth from contrast like Brucemoose suggested):

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brucemoose said:

Looks cool so far. I would encourage you to push your value range to get a bit more depth and feeling of distance.

Thanks, I think it helped this one. I'll keep working on it.

zacvrono

Day 5:

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Day6:

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Day 8 (missed day 7 crap, I'll catch up. Also took 40 minutes on this one instead of 30. I used only one brush for this one to see how it would turn out):

lotet

Not bad!
would love to see some more contrast between textured and flat surfaces as well as hard and soft edges.

Quick example.

zacvrono

lotet said:

Not bad!
would love to see some more contrast between textured and flat surfaces as well as hard and soft edges.

Quick example.

Ok i see, thank you. I will focus on that (I really need to get on using the lasso tool more it seems).
I really appreciate the help, and the paint-over really pushed your point .

zacvrono

No painting today. Got really sick. slept like 16 hours and still exhausted.

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Day 9 (I blame the crap quality on still feeling a bit sick... probably I just suck. I was on the refining edges phase when I noticed I had 1 minute left) :


PS: ohhhh lol, I miss set the timer. Only gave myself 20 minutes XD oops.

zachvance

Looking good so far. I can even see improvement over just the few that you've posted; I'd love to commit to something like this, but it's tough will a full time job and a family.

Are you using reference or promts at all, or is it all from your head?

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zachvance said:

Looking good so far. I can even see improvement over just the few that you've posted; I'd love to commit to something like this, but it's tough will a full time job and a family.

Are you using reference or promts at all, or is it all from your head?

Some are right from my head, and some are from reference. the Mayan ruins, day 2, day 3, and day 9, had reference. The rest were not (I did color sample from a photo for the sky and sand on the beach one, but it looks nothing like the picture.).
I got a potential job offer finally, so I've had to put this on pause while I focus on clearing my freelance work queue.

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Day 9:


not sure I can keep up with one a day right now. Like I was saying above really focusing on potential job right now.

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Day 10 (40 minutes agian... that extra 10 minutes seems to make a massive difference for me):

brucemoose

Nice man, hey here's a cool youtuber you might want to take a look at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJ73RD9lCP4

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Day11:

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brucemoose said:

Nice man, hey here's a cool youtuber you might want to take a look at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJ73RD9lCP4

Ohhhhhh wow. Why didn't I think of using the wand tool like that!? Thank you, yes I am subbing to him.