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Experimenting with foliage, Painter brush settings and how the colors affect each other.

a speedpainting where I experiment a bit more with foliage.


Next time I think I'll use a skattered brush for the trees in the distant background..

useful stuff!

Really dig your environments, deffinately one of your strong suites. I gotta try out a forest painting or something sometime haha. Will keep an eye on your sketchbook for more.

Thank you guys for the comments! :) here's some more studies.

Some car study. I don't know anything about cars really, I usually find them quite boring subject. So I'll have to force myself to draw them more.

Skin tone study. I really like to paint very dark, african faces, because they are actually just as colorful as caucasian skin.

Was busy working on other stuff today, but I managed to do at least one more car study before crashing to bed:

Next time I should pay more attention to the wheels..

Did some environment/value exercises!


Spent about 20-25 minutes on each one.

i like the middle enviro the most! :D

interesting leaf experiments. reminds me of some textures that i had to do at work:D you would have done so much better than me:D

Thank you guys! :D

here's some studies I did today on motor bikes!

After the motorcycle study I felt like starting on a painting with a motorcycle in it. So I made some preparations.

Some more WIPs from today's livestream:




I know the perspective is off, I need to rest my eyes from the painting a bit before finishing it. Also I don't really know how I want the color scheme.

Some doodle and paintings I did in today's crazy livestream session.



Feels nice to just sit down and paint whatever you feel like.

Haven't been postin' stuff here lately. So I'll fill this post with lots of stuff I've done recently:


Experimenting with the whole concept behind "values + overlay coloring" that I've never really completely understood until lately.





Some exercises of the flexibility of the torso (aka "butt's n boobs poses") and also did a little repetition of the main muscles of the torso and arms.

And here's some masterpainting studies. Next time I think I'll spend a bit more than 1 hour on each piece. The original paintings are done by Albert Bierstadt. His paintings are very atmospheric and inspiring.

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I'll end this post with some more WIP screenshots:

With a lot of inspiration from Nathan Fowkes

Oh man, looks like you know what you're doin. Keep up the great work, everything's coming together nicely.

Started on this painting today. I really hope I can manage to finish this.

Excellent work! Your studies are great! keep it up.

Bierstadt FTW! There's so many awesome masters. But once i discovered him I forgot about all the others. Is this bad? Great stuff. Mind if I subscribe your sketchbook and look on it in my control panel xd? Oh and keep pushin'

(08-03-2012, 04:16 PM)ramalooke Wrote: [ -> ]Bierstadt FTW! There's so many awesome masters. But once i discovered him I forgot about all the others. Is this bad? Great stuff. Mind if I subscribe your sketchbook and look on it in my control panel xd? Oh and keep pushin'

It's all okay! Go ahead and do that! :D And thank you so much! I discovered Bierstadt just recently, and his paintings are really inspiring and beautiful. Gonna do some more studies on his stuff in the future.