The Last Stand Final

So, here it is, the final render of "The Last Stand". Put in about 4.5 hours to finish it up, putting me at right around 10 hours total painting time. Not too bad, and I'm pretty pleased with the results. I may tweak it in the near future after I look at it with fresh eyes... we shall see... Anyway, let me know what you think of the final piece! Viva la Aliens!

The Last Stand Part 3

2 more hours and lots of futzing with possible color palettes. I want it to have a somewhat dreary blue overtone to everything, a la the Aliens film. Anyway, had some issues that slowed things down a bit. I will need to explore possible options for streamlining this process. Maybe watch some more demos.... Eh, I felt I've got a good thing going so far, though. However, I might end up changing the whole thing before I move on. We shall see....

The Last Stand Part 2

Here it is: 2.5 more hours logged and the shapes are coming together without too much difficulty. A couple of hiccups along the way, but otherwise smooth sailing so far. More painting shenanigans to come shortly...

The Last Stand

So I decided to continue my foray into speeding up my painting techniques. The last one I did went rather well, so I decided to go for some slightly more complicated fare this time around. I increased the number of subjects, and shifted to a more dramatic angle. However, I still chose subject matter with which I am intimately familiar. The epic battle between Alien and Space Marine. I'll be posting progress shots of this one as I go. So far, the initial sketching and roughing out took about an hour. So far so good...

To commemorate the first snowfall of the year...

This little ditty here was actually a bit of a speed painting exercise. In wanting to gauge how far my digital painting has come, I decided to see how fast I could take a painting from conception to finished piece. I completed this one in two days, with just under 5 hours total painting time. It's entitled "The Fall Goodbye", and was inspired by a comic entitled "The Robot and the Sparrow" by Jake Parker. His comic can be found in the anthology "Flight" volume 2. Gotta give credit where it's due. Anyway, I decided to post it in honor of our first real snowfall of the year here in Milwaukee. Shoveling snow sucks...

A little dash of the voodoo...

Well, I loved that first post so much, I decided to post more! Here is a painting that I started a while ago. It started with a more blocky coloring aproach, which I never finished. After I had completed the Shanoa painting, I was debating what to do next, and was having some trouble coming up with ideas. I decided to return to something older in the meantime, and so I revamped this old Witch Doctor girl idea using the tecniques I learned with Shanoa. Anyway, feedback please! By the way, in case anyone's curious, both Voodoo Girl and Shanoa were painted in Photoshop. The original for Voodoo Girl was started in Corel Painter.

The beginning of the end...

So, the circle is now complete. It started with Myspace, and has finally come to this. At the behest of my brother, I have finally entered the fabled realm of sketchblogs... For my first offering to the sketchblog gods, I felt it was appropriate to start with the first digital painting I've done lately that I felt has finally broken some boundaries for me. It represents a shift in my style, towards new techniques, and hopefully bigger and better things. Anyway, as with everything I do, I crave constructive criticism, so feel free to go nuts. The painting is of Shanoa, the main protagonist from Castlevania: Order of Ecclesia.