Portrait Emma Watson

Doing my FYP and felt very restless. Decided to do some digital painting, but I'm just not getting the hang of it. Then thought maybe I can grab some random image and paint it as an exercise. Portraits, led to actors, leading to random female actress. Googled Emma Watson and grabbed a picture I felt happy to paint and painted it. Started out rocky and unsure but after an hour or two, felt quite at ease. However, I'm still not able to overcome that plastic-y look of painting from photos. Trying to aim for a more painterly look. Maybe next time.

6 hours, photoshop cs5

Narutard-ed

Haha... wanted to do a fanart of Naruto and at the same time, do something about the portraiture practice I've set to do. 4 hours with color pencils... and though it was fast, I was not aware of the angle I was drawing at and it caused the entire portrait to appear elongated..... Adjusted it in photoshop, looked better.

Have been reading Naruto Shippuden these days. Slow yea. Although it feels as though it ain't got an ending, it's a nice manga to pick up, not just for the illustration quality. Storyline is the usual shonen stuff, but the growth of the characters quite keep it apart from the other shonen comics I've read so far (not many titles really, lol). People change and people pass on (ain't any big thing for gundam yea), just makes me wonder how long I'll be staying in my own world. Portfolio has been left forgotten... whatever I've done so far is more of a theraphy for restlessness than anything for the professional level. Thinking back, I wonder if I've given up on it when I said no to WSC... But yea, still young and alive, tomorrow is still there and I'm hungry. Haven't eat dinner yet... maybe just stuff some food in and emo next time, heheh. :P



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Astro hanging on the line...

Process Log

Surprise surpise.... a completed cg painting.... Started at 1pm, decided to stop at 4pm and study. Draggedd till 6pm... Just get carried away. Somehow, cg has become a way to test myself on the anatomy shading of a human, since I have that tendancy to gear towards semi-realism when it comes to cg paintings. No so much for illustrator... Wonder where is my flexibility? It's a medium after all...

Supposed to be studying for monday's astro; old habits die hard...

Rush rush

It's been a long while.... lol.

Anyways, this is the time of the year when things gets all busy for me (gonna be so for another two more years). This time is a bit more busy, cos my aunt went overseas and grandma is left alone in the house. Mum felt it'll be better to have another person around there, so there I go. 2 weeks of camping... and it's not a great timing. Homework is piling up and I have yet to clear any. Accounts exam is just right after the 3D animation submission date, which spells danger... still in modelling phase for 3D... Huiying's project is at drafting stage, haven't done my 2D work, portrait oil painting, writing assignment... Art history exam around the corner too. The past week at grandma's place is a study camp, which actually kinda helped. Guess there are too many temptations at home.... lol.

Didn't draw anything other than Huiying's animation backgrounds... Concentrating on portraiture in the oil painting class... cos we gotta do a big self-portrait for our final project. :/


2nd portrait of the module. The model is pretty 'fidget-y', needs to constantly chat with the students to keep herself awake. Haha, her ghost stories were pretty entertaining though no one really responded to her as everyone was busy painting.



3rd portrait of the module: got a feeling this model is a yr 1 student from the school. She has a really cool lightning tattoo there which I didn't really capture well.



4th Portrait: this lady is a pro. She hardly moved at all during the posing, super professional. Her face is pretty interesting. I was standing in a position where I can only see her front features, but during the break, I realised her side view is totally different from what I see from the front. Her chin slopes inwards, making the face look a bit petite with her nose and lips very prominent. Her hairdo is really cool too, front long back short type. Wouldn't mind painting her again.

And some randomness....



Ting brought those paper bags back during Halloween, somekind of freebies she got somewhere down orchard road maybe. I thought the advertising was really cool. Those three kids kind of go crazy over it a while and I went snapping pictures of them. All came out pretty blur though... haiz...

Sian....

Wednesday.... self study day.... sian day... Ngaaaaaahhhhh..... Stare at the book, can't get anything in... So end up painting instead.

Borrowed a book on the making of Pirates of Caribbean... Had intentions of caricaturing the people in there, but didn't really get down to do it. Flip flip flip... saw the picture of Tia Dalma and decided to paint it as it was. Tired of thinking... and wanted to get it done fast to go back to studying asap... argh...



Sigh... not at the quality of an hour of painting... just tired, haha.

I've Gotta Move It!

Ahh... a time to breathe... for a day maybe, gotta study all the way now. But just couldn't resist the paintbrush again, especially since I have some ideas what I want to paint these days... argh, distraction. During the Art History exams preparation, I was really inspired by Claude Monet's work that I was thinking of trying out that Impressionistic style of painting. As what I've read... they were influenced by the science discoveries about the eye and started painting as if there were no forms but just colors. What is seen is not 3D but just a flat image that is made up of dots of colors, that makes things look 3d. To look at things as if you're born blind and could suddenly see again.... Taking that, I grabbed a picture from the FFVII book bought sometime ago and started painting.



It's kind of tough, what colors to go where, how the colors themselves when placed beside each other would bring about a certain illusion to the picture. Started off with a total blank cardboard (yea, it was previously used as a tempo cutting mat and I was about to throw it away until I thought the lines would be interesting to play with), without any basic sketches of the head. Just put patches of paint around and while doing the face coloring, I wondered how to make it come out and tried to remember the previous impressionistic paintings I saw in the textbook. They had patches of colors yes, but there were patches of many different colors together in strokes, so close to each other that they created the illusion. Maybe that's how it works?

The painting there was done in goauche first (cos they were starting to dry up and I realised it would be a waste...) and when I ran out of white goauche, it's acrylic.

Ahhh... Botak Jones.... XD Enjoying life a bit now, but it's time to go back to the books... Saw the 3D Prof's email and I was quite... haiz. It's gonna end soon yea...

Old Man Drawing

Yeap, finished and handed in this afternoon to Bridget! Whew.... Haha, I wonder if I have something for old people. The very first cg that got me a prize featured an old man. My very first human bust sculpture was an old man. And now, another old man. Maybe the eyes? Gotta admit, I kind of liked the expression of the old man in this picture and decided to draw it down. Or maybe cos the wrinkly image of the elderly allows me to break away from the usual standard perfection of a human face...

Still feels the picture lacks some 'real-ness' to it, a small thumbnail of it now makes me feel that the left side of his face is in fact quite flat... But I submitted it anyway... letting it go there. Maybe a few years later, it'll be a joy to review this picture again, I hope so...

What did I learn there.... 2b doesn't go well with hb pencils for me...and less force! Every line counts!! (which leads to 6 hours of painful rendering... gotta do something about the time there one day.... not this moment though...)

House Portrait

Original picture here

Yeap, finished this off last night after returning from Huiying's home. Haha, went to her house since she welcomed me there. It's always inspiring to go there, seeing all her works hanging on the walls.... It's now starting to be covered with more oil paintings than watercolors. What I really like was the set of 4 sqaure portraits of her family, lined up in the kitchen. It's really nice to have such stuff hanging around in the house, makes you feel cosy in the occasionally empty place. Yea, her mum works in the night, her father seems to be OT-ing that night, and her sis is away, summing up to only me and her in the house. I would have felt pretty odd, but she's used to it, I guess....

The conte used in this drawing was also given by her. She told me about conte a year ago when she used it during her foundation class and gave me two sticks to try. The tutor sort of told them to cover the entire paper with conte and work backwards with an eraser. It's pretty interesting, and being sick of pencil lines, I tried that technique out with the picture of Gregory House. It was messy at first, but the technique had some allowance to mistakes. The nose was initially too long and I wanted to shorten it, so covered up the entire nose and mouth in black and started again. Later went into details with a white pencil. Pretty cool :D he's got some eye problem there.... And it took the usual 4 hours....

Drawing and sculpting...

Yea, bizarre. That's a self potrait yea... looking pretty fat there XD It's a homework issued today, but seeing the busy week ahead, I decided to chiong it after literature lecture. Tried to play with the perspective here, but guess it turned up pretty pyschotic.... must have been the pose and colors... I've never used such highly contrasting, bright colors before (the pastel set limited my color choice...forcing me to use this palette).

And yes! The sculpture!



I've quite finished it last saturday. Turned out pretty good, I feel.







Though upon closer observation, there are still some mistakes that could be corrected, but somehow, I decided to leave it as it is. First attempt on something this real, so keep it that way, the mistakes of the first time.

And yup, if you've guessed it, the guy I'm sculpting is Sir Ian Mckellen. ;)

Lady of Pharis

A portrait of Fleve of Record of Lodoss War: Lady of Pharis. A really nice comic, under the hands of Akihiro Yamada... it's a work of art than comic to me nia.... XD Done in pastels... after painting it, kind of made me feel that there's a lot about the human face anatomy that I still have to learn.... >_<

Went to Dor's house to discuss abit about the end of year event. Somehow, we are both gonna get caught up with the little responsibilities in life, but not gonna stop our plans for that! ;) Gossiped a bit about uni life too.... hope I'm just thinking too much.... Ngahhhhh.... Courage!!!!!! XDXDXDXDXD