Accidents Happen

Here I was, trying something a bit different for my portraits by using reference and changing it in a very peculiar way, so they wouldn't just be study-copies. Eventually the end result was the first image here.

However, somewhere along the way I started playing with color a little too much, and it evolved into something very different. At first I was hesitant about it because it looked cool, but the expression didn't match the mood of the painting at all, so I tweaked it a bit to make it fit.

I'll have to try that style again with another portrait because it was a lot of fun.

Daniel Radcliffe

I have moved to Seattle! I had been crazy busy this past few weeks getting all this moving stuff sorted out. Finally getting back to the hang of doing art.
So here is Mr Radcliffe. I found a photo with pretty cool lighting, so I decided to copy it to learn from it.

Thanks for looking!

Forest

So here's another silly experiment of mine. I grabbed a photo to use as color reference and then used a grayscale overlay. Then I used those values (the desaturated colors), to paint a completely different subject matter. In the end, I had the B&W version which was all value, and once I took off the grayscale overlay, I ended up with the picture on top with the otherworldly  blue mist.

 It was definitely and interesting experiment worth trying again.

Good old Canadian Kaidan

Kaidan Alenko from the Mass Effect series.
Like the Miranda portrait, I used a reference of his hace model for the painting.

Hope you like everyone's favorite Sentinel!

Bust WIP II

New update on the bust I've been posting on my blog. It was done to the likeness of Chris Hemsworth, the actor who plays Thor in the Avengers movie. It is still a work in progress; I need to address some seams and other issues in the diffuse, and then make a spec map for it. I did want to show the lowpoly model however, so here it is.

Rundown of the specs:
1700 tris
1k diffuse / 1k normal / no spec yet

Chicago

Another speedpaint. This one is based on a photo I took while on a trip to Chicago. My main purpose for this one was getting a better understanding of the fore/middle/background relationship, and how the transition between them works.

Looking at the photo reminded me that Chicago was a pretty cool city. I wouldn't mind visiting again sometime.

"Nobody's Perfect"

Miranda Lawson from the Mass Effect series.
I used a photo of her face model as a reference for this portrait.

Hope it is cool enough for all Miranda fans out there!