15 posts tagged “art”

So I went to the newsagent recently and brought a whole bunch of deep red markers, they're delicious, as they don't have that  icky pink tinge so many other 'red' markers have and they allow me to practice my contradictive lighting style using traditional mediums rather than painting on the computer.

hope you enjoy.

So for this sketch I've used more black outlines, i've still elft areas where the shadows of the red defines itslf, but for the most part i've used black to define outlines even though i'm only using it as a midtone (for this style of art I'm using red as the darkest colour, rather than black.

And for this sketch I've used red for the outlines as well as the darkest colour, black remains a mid tone and is mostly there to add contrast. the first sketch was easier to do and took less time, but I like using only red for outlines. I'll probably go with the easier option though, because I want to produce more art rather than cater to my own weird tastes at the moment. :\

Uni has started again, and with the uni comes the painting. So here is the latest update of my viking painting. 

But that Isn't the only thing I've been painting, so here is another 3 images of te other painting i've been working on for uni, going through the various stages of it's creation.

Been really busy lately, doing stuff, sleeping, working, car accidents, flies crawling into my head and dying, etc. But I did manage to grab a spare hour just now to work more on my painting, added things like clothing, armour, some basic facial features, hair, and worked out some more of the light direction. Enjoy :D

So i recently got a job, and it has allowed me to buy some nice big ass canvases, and an easle, sadly, it has also chewed up allot of my time, still today i managed to get started on one of them, nothing fantastic so far, just breaking in the main figures and basic shapes, and starting to shove in some light sources. once i've finished sticking on all the shapes I'll start to add details (and clothes).

still painting in black and white, not confident enough to use colour (plus the black and white paint pots i have are easier to use, i hate squeezing stuff outta tubes).

Painted up a new pic for the dnd campaign i'm in, my old character got eaten by an ogre, so I figured this time i'd play as a very fighty character instead.

I was originaly gonna post some oils i'd been playing with (cause i just brought myself some oil paints to try out), but it's still drying so i can't yet attack it with markers (it's been drying for a day and half now :S). So in the mean time I used my favourite medium ink, to make this picture of a samurai.

Then I scanned it and cleaned it up in Photoshop, 'cause my inking is pretty messy.

Mostly just added white to highlight the face and hands, as well as fix up the black and get rid of the red marks that where confusing around the sword.

Recently i went to my friend Megz's 22nd bday, and drank allot of mead and had a good tie, for her birthday present i painted her this picture of her slaughtering a horde of kiwi fruit (and then gave her an a3 sized print of it) because she's allergic to kiwi fruit.

Well I created this group cause i wanted a place were i could post my art as well as look at other peoples art, heres a few drawings I've done recently.

Comments and Criticism are welcome, I look forward to seeing your art :D

Actualy bothered to read the updated lab rules, and discovered that it only wants editable artwork (so thats why Kevin seemed grumpy at me posting this). So in the spirit of things, I want people to come up with band members to acompany my musician here, only catch is, none of them can be human. Get drawing.

Between all the crap thats going on at uni, and the random events in my life, I havn't had as much time to do some digital painting as I'd like recently, Still, I managed to make this yesterday.

Got this in my email from the One million masterpeice charity Organisation that I contributed my art to. I was pretty ecstatic.

"Just a quick email to let you know that your image for the One Million
Masterpiece project has been selected for the Official 2007 Calendar.

Your image will appear on the January page, along with your name and
image number.  Hundreds of the calendars have already been pre-sold,
and so you can be safe in the knowledge that you are officially an
internationally published artist!

Your artwork will be credited with your name and image number, and will
be displayed using the format:

Zack Castro 556015"

If you like the idea of world unity and feel like doing something fun, then I'd recomend participating in the one million masterpiece.