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TF2 Propaganda Entry

Tue, 15 Dec 2009 13:31:03 +1300

My submission to the TF2 Propaganda competition - hopefully I win a prize! Found enough time between work tasks to paint it up. I'm quite pleased with how he turned out. Throw us a line if you have any comments.

Apologies

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 14:40:12 +1300

for the lack of posts, almost finished my year at polytech, just a week to go. I will share all my stuffs in the coming while. But for now I'll just show you what I've been doing:

It is thicker than the phonebook - and each page has either a cowboy, or a zombie on it. Or both! Can't wait for it to be complete. Poor trees.

paint8 update3

Tue, 06 Oct 2009 21:59:39 +1300

Oh man, been way too long. I apologise. Just got back at school after a week trip to Wellington. Was fantastic and I love you all!

Throw me your thoughts, I should hopefully chew this one out in the next day or two, been a little too long IMO. Gotta get that portfolio together!

Edit: Yes Julien I know this no longer constitutes a speed paint thank you very much. :D

paint8 update2

Fri, 25 Sep 2009 09:04:57 +1200

Have to apologise again for the lack of updates, basically just been focused on animation during my art time and actually having a holiday when I'm not. I had done a bunch in the past week though and just didn't update, but that's below. Struggling with enjoying this one, but that probably means I have to persist with getting it right and finally liking the end result. Damn rock textures!

It'll look much better in the next couple of updates, just getting the colours and junk right is a mission in itself. Hope my painting is showing improvement..

paint8 update

Thu, 10 Sep 2009 16:57:06 +1200

Hey all, sorry about the delay, consarn'n tech work 'n all that. But now that the bulk of it is behind me, back to regular painting updates. Would have done a bit more but I am so hilariously tired I think half an hour is enough.

First image is a bit I did about a week ago and the second image is from this afternoon, just a bit of progress reporting to show my work.

clickyclick!

paint8 sketch

Mon, 31 Aug 2009 23:12:27 +1200

So tired, couldn't do too much. Damn essay. More tomorrow.

I hadn't been sketching in the stuff before now so I thought I should probably do so, especially for the geometric shapes like the castles and what not. Please e-mail me any critique if ya'll want.

Clicky click if you can be bothered.

because apparently you wanted more speedpaint7

Mon, 31 Aug 2009 00:18:42 +1200

here is another push, but that's the last one!

New one starting tomorrow (I mean it this time)

sick of speedpaint7

Sun, 30 Aug 2009 00:56:32 +1200

so I refuse to do any more. starting a new one tomorrow.

/blarugaege

Clickclcciclckliy

speedpaint7 wip2

Fri, 28 Aug 2009 16:47:55 +1200

Clickyclick

speedpaint7 wip

Thu, 27 Aug 2009 00:16:01 +1200

I'm really enjoying this one so I thought since I had given up for the night I'd share the WIP, should be finished tomorrow. Need to make myself spend more time on paintings like I'm doing here.

clickyclick.

speedpaint6

Tue, 25 Aug 2009 23:15:32 +1200

might spend a couple hours re-doing this watercolour copy as I think the original is fantastic. I'm loving doing the painting copies as they're really teaching me about landscapes, rock formations, colour, light, shadows, organic perspective and layering. There's so much the classroom can teach me but this is all fantastic stuff.

clickyclick.

speedpaint5

Mon, 24 Aug 2009 22:29:02 +1200

clickyclick click.

speedpaint4

Sun, 23 Aug 2009 23:26:04 +1200

hey again, speed paint time once more. This is about an hour and a half's worth of copying a painting I picked from Art Renewal Center which turns out to be a fantastic resource for high quality fine arts from all over the time spectrum, thanks Tom for giving me this site!

He also suggested I do this little task, and I really loved it, I don't want to delve too deeply into these paintings yet, I just really want to get a better general feeling for landscapes and lighting, then a little later start to refine my skills in detail and what not. Thanks again.

clicky click!

speedpaint3

Fri, 21 Aug 2009 23:25:24 +1200

more more more

gonna actually spend some time this weekend doing some paint fun suggestions my friend tom described. clicky click.

speedpaint2

Wed, 19 Aug 2009 23:24:12 +1200

more speedness, I'll try to do this every night. Can you tell I got frustrated at the end?

art dump

Wed, 19 Aug 2009 15:00:12 +1200

lots of crap I've been meaning to upload, finally a sunny day so my awful camera can actually see some pencil. Some of last semester's figure drawing + character sheets and layout drawings from animation. Enjoy and remember to click for a larger view.

speedpaint

Tue, 18 Aug 2009 23:02:42 +1200

need to practice painting more, something I'll definatly be doing with this new 22" monitor of doom. Weather has been too poor to use my camera for my huge stack of drawings that need sharing, but they will be up as soon as there's a break in the cloudy days, useless camera.

Anyways, enjoy!

gross thing

Mon, 10 Aug 2009 22:08:23 +1200

CoW, need more personal stuff.

Simple simple simple. But still a drawing.

clickyclick

creature and junk

Tue, 04 Aug 2009 23:28:30 +1200

should probably have mentioned that the last sketches were from the last couple of conceptart.org creature of the weeks, something a couple of mates from polytech and I do to make sure we have something else apart from schoolwork to keep us occupied art-wise. The last; much unclearer image was of a dragon lich that was only about half an hour in, well now that sketch is done to an extent I can't be bothered with it anymore and is shown below. I'll try to be clearer in future posts.

Need to draw more. If you see me, prod me and remind me.

kk.

sketches and more info

Sun, 02 Aug 2009 13:31:40 +1200

Well today is the day for the first image posts, just two sketches, but still the first. Will try my best to update at least every two days with anything I've done since.

Also, anyone who hasn't already seen, should check out my mate James Ellis' blog/thing jealous as it is very cool and has some mighty fine photography on it.

Also, if you would like to comment on anything I've posted, just throw me a line via the contact page or my facebook, comments will be implemented at a later date but we were just running into trouble before and thought getting the site up would be more important.

Click for enlarged images.