[Matthew]

[wayfarer.]

everyone�s doing enormous work here. Like your last one Matthew.

Don�t post often in this thread, intimidatet by the well-done pictures. But here�s a piece, I personally really like. I hope, you do so, too.

[Mitsui]

thnx octavian you're right about the balance I'll keep that in mind. And don't hesitate to crit I love it. It helps me to improve faster.
Nice helmet btw. Like the reflections!

Thnx capt.fred The waterfall is awesome!

[Michal]

Too much names to compliment on... My fave is Craig and Matthew I love the simplicity in your works, shaping up the objects with a few brush strokes and great values!

Craig - that tank video helped me a lot ....

Here's my attempt at speedpainting challenge on threedy.com ... chaotic brush strokes and poor values... I have soo much to learn....

Any tips guys?


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[jfb]

>Mitsui/Michal : great pics

[Michal]

Thanks, jfb Yours is nice one as wel, reminds me of Mulan - the winter in Japan... can't tell why
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[JZA]

10 minutes

[-Tepox-]

Shouldn't be too hard to know what movie inspired me for this

Capt. Fred: I like your bond pic

[Misc]

roma, matthew, michal: nice!

[Omi-kun]

spooge, mathew, nice

light study

[Odds]

Awesome, everyone.
I have a question to ask, though. It seems like you guys just pump out these speedpaintings; whereas, for some reason, it takes me atleast 2 hours to even complete a 'speedpainting'. Maybe I'm spending too much time on detail? I don't know what's wrong with me.

[XIA]

Great work everyone!

[balistic]

[Odds]

ah, that completely flips my perspective on things.
thanks.

[Dunathre]

Spooge, awesome video. I wonder if it might not be too greedy to tread upon your already superfluous good graces and request one in color?

I suspect the greyscale video was only meant as a quick example to demonstrate how you work. But I'm sure I'm not the only one who would benefit from seeing your almost brutally flawless color from start to finish.


Paint to post. <3 fred

[octavian]

odds: I think everyone here spends a good amount of time on any image that looks good. Besides, it shouldn't matter how long anyone else spends on their work. its all about your learning curve.

a really shitty image that took too long.
as always, crits welcome.

[Odds]

thanks octavian.
fixes my views.

[Tedsuo]

I would go as far to say that the "Digital Speedpainting" is more like and art movement than anything else. All of the arists involved seem to have a lot in common, beyond owning a copy of Photoshop.






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[PawelLipka_]

Balistic: sounds like SANDEN:)
I also remember that I recognized some of sanden's methods in your previous work. Especially merging edges with similar values(sandenizing;)

I've got his book too.

About economy of strokes... I think Spooge said something about thinking in painting(its about 50% thinking and 50% painting). I agree with him because I'm not sure if We should think about every stroke.
I dont even think Sanden does it. We can define a plane of light, look for its shape,value,etc but if this plane of light is bigger and we cannot paint it with one or two strokes, should we still think about every single stroke?
We can decide to use some rhythm,pattern...but I know one thing for sure.
If You start thinking about such details it is dangerous and You may forget
more important, more general things.

That's my opinion. I myself just cant think of everything at once and I am sure I'm not the only one;)

[Hiipi]

G�day...

I have been doing these illustrations for a newspaper in Finland for quite a while now and this morning I woke up to realize that these are really speed paints. I don�t put so much effort into them to start up a new topic so this will do fine.

First one,
Svoboda Vodka!!!


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[spooge demon]

must paint pretty girls people buy them ....

Eol, stock PS 5 or 6.

Ax-hv- thanks! I had to look up "laconic" my only advice is what I have said before, paint a lot and think while you are doing it. And try to do it from life so you have to deconstruct forms that you see and reconstruct them on paper instead of transcribing shapes. Staying in the shape world will keep you from getting anywhere. It's a good place, many illustrators live there their whole careers, but you will be very limited.

Dunathre, there are two others there, just substitute bridge.mov or sink.mov instead of tank. Mov in the link. Keep in mind they are really old, and there are so many ways to work. The bridge is painter, hmmm.

Muse, about the helmets, yes, I see what you are saying. I heard a movie director say once how he was jealous of storyboard artists, and that they could draw stuff from many angles and with different lenses in the same image. Impossible to photograph, unless very fancy CG is involved. With that police piece, the lens for the foreground is pretty wide. Distant things like buildings or mountains get really compressed. But a long lens to make the buildings seem impressive allows you to see only a few police, and then flattens them out a lot. You are only looking from one direction, not the combination of across and down and up allowed by a wider lens. This image is a combination of those two things, what is best in a long and short lens. Without the barrel distortion of a wide lens either.

So if we are seeing a small portion of the hemisphere of the sky in the long lens used for the BG, you are seeing just what is along the horizon. Not much of what is up. The warm color along the horizon might be just there, not across the whole sky. It depends on the depth and density of the particles that are picking up the sunlight (behind us). Since we can' see the rest of the sky, it is hard to know. If the particles are large and heavy and have come from the ground, they are probably compressed there and the sky overhead is clear blue. Some of the other fill lighting, the pavement for example, shows this.

But, all this to say I did it right, ah bullshit, you got me, I screwed up bad:)

But I just thought I would bring this possible explanation into it to show how you can tap dance your way around your screw ups. So are the helmets too bouncy? To me, they are OK, color and contrast in an otherwise gray painting, but if they jiggle too much for you, it is wrong.

[Naeem]

ncie work all. spooge-demon, great work. u too matthew

[P-Rik]

About Grand Space Opera...

I think that challenge is going to be great!


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[DangerousLlama]

love the expression on her face XIA

[Roma]

Not sure this one deserves a spot in the speed"painting" section since it's all lines but it is a speeddrawing nonetheless. The pers was a *bitch* and the legs ended up not being on the same level... It's a first pass though. I shall correct it if I ever do a finished version. Styles are conflicting too. Oh well...

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[ax--hv]

octavian, Matthew, XIA, octavian, spooge, P-Rik, DangerousLlama >very nice
Capt.Fred> absolutely awesome waterfall
spooge> thank you for the reply!
stephan, octavian, trurl> thanks!
octavian> it did very good
Matthew> i think my overpaint didn't reflect your idea and mood. Here's another one. Hope this one is beter than previous.

[Sup_Ben]

[eol]

ax-hv its beutyfull I love your fresh and sharp painting
spoonge I thought that in tank movie you use some different tools but than I realise that it was just brush hehe still nothing change- amazing!! Damn I like you like girls likes justin timberlake nuthing gay in this hehehe ok some shieet to post

[Matthew]

[Matthew]

Some of todays wc's.








thanks again guys for all your comments, I don't deserve this much attention. thanks again.
ax--hv, many thanks again for that second overpaint.

see you and keep up guys