Daily practice - covered by the cold

I wanted to try a completely new style and technique. A lot more instinctif than most of my drawings. I always wanted to try drawing from greyscale first and then adding colors. That's how I made it.

Tools: Java Draw on RMD

On the cliff speed painting

Another scene from Chinese Paladin. I try to use unatural colors to get more feelings. I just loved the composition of this picture and wanted to redraw it. I drawn for 40 minutes or so.

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It is Ah Nu feeling the breeze...

Blade Runner speed painting

A little update. I think it is a scene at the beginning of the film "Blade Runner". A little less than an hour spent on this draw. I like the feeling and the monochrome aspect of this scene. Some parts need to be brigther.

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Studio scene Speed painting

A little scene that took about 1h and a half. I enjoyed making it after three weeks without doing any speed painting.
 I tried different techniques that I'm not use to work with.

For those who are curious about how I did the stores. By the way, I used photoshop.

This is what stands behind the stores.

The stores are made of different layers that I merged as I progressed. First, I drawn a straight horizontal light blue line. I used the wrap tool to lightly bend it. Next step is to duplicate it and moving it down many times until you have a full store. I used the wrap tool again to rectify the last lines of the stores. The vertical lines are done the same way. You can then add some shadows and lights.

 

You can guess, but this is the final result!

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Sound of music speed painting

Most of you should recognize the screenshot of Sound of Music below. I d like this movie and the songs in it. Now, I really made myself about exploring the brushes in photoshop. Learned the option Dual Brush. Contrarly as before, I always have the brush box open in my window. Tried to get a sad feeling with a touch of happiness. It took less than an hour.

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Final Fantasy Chocobo Tales style

From time to time to time, I practice by trying to get an artist style. I think Shirma,the girl in Final Fantasy Chocobo Tales game, is very cute. It is a style I really like. Very fast doodle.

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I didn't want to concentrate a lot today. Way of being lazy. But it is time I work a little. A drawing of 40 mins. I just learned a new brush function. Brushes are digital artists friends, but I don't make use of them enough. It is time I do, otherwise I will always use the 4 basics brushes. Today I tried and learned the transfer setting. Very useful for details. Maybe I will soon make my owns.

 

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Got the time to do 2 speed paintings today. Quite a long time spent here: 2 hours, but still not very detailed. I chaged the composition a little, because not seeing everyone on the boat isn't advantageous. The characters posing were a little difficult to understand. More stable poses, as I didn't found the need to make them dynamic. I wanted a more passive feeling.

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Very satisfied with this one. Took less than one hour. A reasonable time for the result. I think it is very clean with a great feeling. It is really good looking. Maybe too much saturate for the purple? I don't know...

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I did this very late yesterday just before going to sleep. took about half an hour. Okay, not really good...

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Linked for life speed painting

Used a screenshot from Chinese Paladin.I like the simplicity of this image. Wasn't so simple to draw, as I'm very bad at drawing hands. I spent most of the time on the left hand, because it kept looking awful... Well, tough subject for me. Took... what?! Two hours?! Because I spent like 1 hour on the hand....?

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Bedroom speed painting

1hour and a half spent on this one. I'm sick, maybe that's why I decided on a bedroom scene. I was losing concentration while doing it.

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Butterfly fly speed painting

For those who watched most versions of Butterfly lovers movies, you will probably say that the version staring Wu Chun and Charlene Choi isn't good. Shame on me, I still liked it... But sill lots of flaws. Like, how come they can think she's a girl? Did they spent enough time together to fall in love? Well, so much thing that didn't worked out. Some stunning backgrounds here and there. This one, particularly. I thought about saving the step by step. Took about 2 hours. It was a very demanding drawing. I think there is some potential here. That's why I'm planning to make a final drawing of it. There are still lots of details I can add. Still think I need to put light in the drawing and atmospheric deep in the back.

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Sweet moment speed painting

I missed a day... The thing is that I was sick yesterday... Slept at 7 o'clock. Today, I did something sweet... I used a picture as reference. Done on RMD.

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Temple speed painting

I just decide that I will do speed paintings often. It is not too much time consuming, so I think that I can afford making one or two per day. Here is my first! I was able to begin at last! About 1 hour.

 

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