Speed painting thread

spacemonkey · Feb 2005

Having the attention span of a nat I have never spent much time on a digital painting (or any painting), ever.
So here is my nights offerings..

EDIT: UPDATED

OLD __ http://img109.exs.cx/img109/5792/wez15ok.jpg

NEW:

close up at 100% - -
http://img103.exs.cx/img103/1849/wthead6kf.jpg

Megaphobema · Feb 2005

Looks cool man, Good job. Which I could paint that well...

Asherr · Feb 2005

looks good but the arms throw the image off. they just stick out and dont flow with the rest of the image.

Megaphobema · Feb 2005

I also wanted to say you framed the face and head nicely. Great design element even if you didn't notice you did it. Now that I look at it again, the arms do throw it off a bit. Maybe next time you could put them criss-crossed in front of him or possibly in some sparatic pose, maybe framing another part of the composition that you want the viewer to notice.

ironbearxl · Feb 2005

spacemonkey · Feb 2005

Cheers guys, I worked on it over the weekend so I feel its done. Updated pics is in the previos post along with a link to the original and a close up.

ironbearxl, keep working on that directional lighting, its certainly something I need practice with!

ironbearxl · Feb 2005

Thanks spacemonkey, i'll have to work on it some more when i get home.

nice work on the final image (my monitor is pretty dark though)

ironbearxl · Feb 2005

Here's another one made tonight, about 3 hrs.

Crash · Feb 2005

about.. uhm 40 mins or so i guess. 50% of the original

MoP · Feb 2005

Cool stuff monkeh.

30 mins, messing around in Photoshop. The 2nd last step was the final painted layer set to Hard Mix with the previous WIP painted layer, it was an accident but I liked the result, so kept it

MoP

Cthogua · Feb 2005

Woke up today in kind of a bad mood, and found the speed painting thread, so I thought I'd work something up. I generally find that creating artwork is sort of a natural anti-depressant for me...so here ya go...probably about an hour and a half or two in Photoshop

peas
James Ball

ironbearxl · Feb 2005

Edit: here's the previous updates: old version

newer old version

Echelon-IV · Feb 2005

I just wanted to participate in this thread so I made this

took about 1 minute.

A bird of somekind... you tell me.

Okay, I got addicted. 20 mins:

killingpeople · Feb 2005

did this last 2hr half of class. playing with custom brush settings; very cool stuff

ironbearxl · Feb 2005

killingpeople, that's awesome and scary.

ironbearxl · Feb 2005

I call it a manphibian.

frosty · Feb 2005

Spacemonkey love that armour style!

Ironbear that girl is demented and cool, like her lots.

KP - Your a sick puppy dude. If I was girl I'd want one child from your loins.

gauss · Feb 2005

ironbearxl · Feb 2005

gauss, that's a lovely optimus prime. I spent about 2+1/2 hrs tonight on this one, i used a lenscraft flyer for reference.

rooster · Feb 2005

1hr 30

big version:
http://www.rooster13.plus.com/pics/dining%20hall_big.jpg
reference model:
http://www.rooster13.plus.com/pics/paintover.jpg

spacemonkey · Apr 2005

Lots of cool paintings guys, keep going.

I havent had much opportunity to do any recently - however I was pretty determined and spent 4 hours on this tonight.

I have allot of stages saved so I can show ppl if you guys are interested. I took a hard brush approach, made a deliberate effort not to zoom in and painted it just slightly larger than the rez I am posting.
Hope you like it.

shotgun · Apr 2005

heh
its like a quake3-ish frazzeta

spacemonkey · Apr 2005

1hr 20 mins stage - I liked it so I've finished it off.

shotgun, Bizley and frazzeta are big influences on me!:)

BoneGrinder · Apr 2005

This is my first post on polycount and the first time I've ever tried photoshop drawing so go easy on me. I saw this thread and liked the effects you guys were getting so I thought I'd give it a try - I used Adobe Photoshop Elements...

The really colourful one in the middle was a multicoloured piece that I got frustrated at and decided to blast it with the 'impressioninst's brush' and 'smudge' tools. By the time I'd finished it was unrecognisable splodge of bright primary colours. I selected a really fine detail smudge brush and used it to move the messed up colour round until I got a face. The only colour I added to the picture was a little black to define some of the features like the eyebrows and the mouth.

[BG]

spacemonkey · Apr 2005

This is 1hr 30. I am sure I remember one of Broms paintings being similar but the bondage thing seemed to work with the crap pose.. I need some life drawing classes ;/

BoneGrinder, welcome to the forum. A good way to improve and focus your speed paintings is to grab some photos and use them are refs.

killingpeople · Apr 2005

MAUL0r · Apr 2005

very nice stuff from this thread, very inspiring.

this took about 45mins to do and is still a WIP... its my first image EVER generated using The Gimp(tm). So this is sort of a getting-a-feel-for-the-program-image... but I think i might finish it out and then take it into photoshop for fine tuning.

Eli_Heuer · Apr 2005

KillingPeople; Damn, cool painting.

here is a painting I did while I should have been doing some less exciting work.

Father_Brandon · Apr 2005

Im not that good at digital painting yet, this is my third, just a 3 hour test before I went to bed last night for practice:

killingpeople · Apr 2005

keep it going Father_Brandon, you are doing fine. take it at a slow jog

Sa74n · Apr 2005

just got a tablet and this is a first dropout.
first speedpainting ever ^^

spacemonkey · Apr 2005

a quick fun one;

Father_Brandon · Apr 2005

This is my 4th, I asked a friend what I should paint in an hour and 20 minutes and he said randomly "Four armed minotaur!"

So here it is except I ran out of time for the hands etc :P

Jamaludin · Apr 2005

killingpeople I love how you paint, would it be possible for us to show a step by step progress to get some insight on how to paint better and such, would be great ? thanks allot in advance anywas

Father_Brandon · Apr 2005

Killing People has a great tutorial on the conceptart.org forums:

http://www.conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=18980&page=1

spacemonkey · Apr 2005

rooster · Apr 2005

just a quick sketch really, the seed of an idea..

shotgun · Apr 2005

some aristocrat creature who likes sugar and honey and fancy clothes. I don't know, pretty much first painting like this I've done, I think it ended up a little Jason Manley. Didn't mean to, but hey I'll watch it for next time..

killingpeople · Apr 2005

character · Apr 2005

hey kp, cool stuff. spacemonkey, that last piece is sick. i love it. and shotgun, cool bird man. i really dig the colours

i only had like 15-20 minutes to work on this one since i'm running late for work. take it easy all. look forward to seeing some more cool stuff

Paolo · Apr 2005

pictures of old girlfriends look so much better with the clothes off. 45 minutes with wacom & GIMP.

pattern · Apr 2005

First post, got some inspiration from nkoste's concepting thread:

First time I've tried anything like this on the computer even though I've had a wacom intous2 for nearly three years.

Usually I just do photomanips. Though I've been lurking about here for a couple of years picking up stuff.

Love the "skull-rocks" Cthogua!

Captain_G · Apr 2005

Some of these paintings are incredible! I've heard of far worse looking images selling for thousands! I may have that Optimus pic printed and framed in my room!

`kungfubilly · Apr 2005

look maw it's one of them thar eleyphants

old_man_funk · Apr 2005

crap splinter cell:

GoK · Apr 2005

here a few 20 min sesions done for the new cg chat comp trying different method than i usualy try.. enjoying it!

edit: is it looking a little bleached out to anyone else??

Jody

hawken · Apr 2005

killingpeople · Apr 2005

Kevin Johnstone · May 2005

flaagan · May 2005

ror.. heh.. reminds me of the aliens from "Enemy Mine"

Empty · May 2005

[Nudity]
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v651/matt22181/girl.jpg
[Nudity}

Um...not sure if this still qualifys as a speed paint. Kinda got started and couldnt stop making changes. Took a few hrs

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