Cloud Atlas studies. (updating everyday)

I've decided to start a crazy big project which I'll work on everyday. I'm going to study every shot from my favourite movie Cloud Atlas.

This will help me consistently put out studies and do this with different themes. yet still stay in a consistent tone.

I hope I'll be able to pick different kinds of colors for similar color schemes with this more quickly as well as pick the right colors for the scene and learn about lighting.

Here are the first bunch!

21 days challenge

I started doing the 21 day challenge where you spend a short time everyday doing studies. I'll be posting one here everyday until the challenge ends.

- somewhere at half the challenge I just started doing studies on Cloud atlas. I put these in a different post. I'm still updating that everyday

Color studies

Doing some color studies while watching the lovely mr selfridge show. Man these low light situations are tricky for choosing colors!

Destiny character client work

Made these paintings based on characters from the videogame Destiny for a client.
Client saw my earlier Destiny drawing and he asked me if I could draw his too. This is the result. Pretty happy with the results! I feel I'm getting better at rendering and adding details where none were clearly distinguishable.

Action scene thumbs

Happy new year!!

I decided that I'm going to start a new portfoliopiece this month. I realised I don't have much action
or dynamic illustrations in my portfolio so these are 9 exploration thumbs to see what works well.
I will then pick one to color key, render and finally be able to add it to my professional portfolio.

Quickstudies #17

Did I ever mention I love stage lighting? Because I love stage lighting. Quick one from a concert I attended by Patrick Watson

Elegance

Todays quickpaint. Done in about 1.5 hours.
Nice to get back to painting fast and loose again after some detailed asset work I did last week.

I will probably work on this more to get the full amount of detail out of the face. No more time for that today.

Helena

Finally finished this one. Helena.
Based on a character in dark souls 2 I used to play with.

A short while back I did a study on a destiny character with an existing lighting situation. I then took what I learned from that and made this from the ground up.

I realized I need to study folds and cloth more. The complicity of multi directional lighting makes this tricky but with a decent set-up and focused lighting it's very well manageable.


Really happy with the results. Felt like I learned here.

Works in progress

Some stuff I'm working on. Neither of these is finished so I'll get back to them.

This one is a piece for a friend that got out of hand. I got lost in the lighting and contrast and I'm gonna let this sit for a bit and get back to it fresh.

This one is an experimentation with 3D software and perspective. The details are coming along but I'm not sure what to do to enhance the depth feeling. Also will get back to this.

A character from a game I like to sporadically play. There's a lot of creative freedom in this and it looks nothing like my character anymore but I like this more so that's good :)

Composition page

Did a bunch of composition sketches quite a while back now. I still like them

There is something about working in values alone. You don't have to worry about color, - which can get complicated quickly. And if the value system works, most of the drawing will follow.

Destiny Hunter

Began starting to draw the characters I play as in games. Starting off with destiny.
Up next is probably my friends character and then Dark souls 2

Quickstudies #16

Ghosts of the forest

While working on a piece I disabled some layers and this came up. Pretty cool!
Will bea full piece next time I post it. No ghosts :)

Quickstudy #15

Some more warming up quickpaints. First of a few planned this week.