Imaginative painting 2 + 3

Study of clothes and imaginative stuff

Photo study 9

Study for this morning, going to spend the rest of the day doing imaginative painting, at least that's the plan. My main focus for this was the black and white values, all done in one layer. And I did the color pretty quick, with around 20 or so layers :P I like this technique but I really need to find a way to make it look less digital, I think it has something to do with doing too saturated too fast.
That enough for ya Dave? :D

Oh and there's no over paint on this, as in I didn't paint over the color layers to tighten it up, which usually makes it look 10 times better.

Pile of crap

Movie still 7 and 8

So I was watching predator 2. Ok first off how the fuck can you manage to take such a cool concept and just completely make a balls of it, I mean the movie is good in parts but thats ONLY because of the concept, not the directing, the directing was SHIT.
Anyway lol, predator was in my head when I was thinking of a subject for my study today. Learnt alot from these two actually, especially the bright jungle one with just arnie

Photo study 8

Movie Still 6

Hellboy

3 imaginative, 9 observational

Movie stills studies 1 - 5

My studies for this morning, combining color light and tone studies with cool compositions/poses/situations. Alot more interesting than photo studies, but If I was just trying to study color light and tone id probably wana just use a photo, its less distracting.
Coz you dont have to try and draw Brad Pitt from below and mess it up!

Imaginative painting 01

After the Frazetta study I wanted to try something from my imagination, I hadn't done this in a long time, so it was fun but also really really hard. Well at first it was easy, but after a while I just kept hitting walls. So now I know where to improve
I really should have been doing more imaginative paintings, it really fuels my desire to learn more. Lately I had been feeling like why the hell am I learning all this stuff, light, colors, composition etc. I forgot why I started painting in the first place.
But the really crap thing is, even though the last year and a half at college Ive learnt a load of stuff, I haven't been applying it to anything that isn't just observation, so when its just me and the paper, no ref... im fucked basically!

Life study 5

The sun didnt stay long :P but it was still awesome painting out in the sun, I just need to paint quicker, so I can do more. If its sunny again tomorrow im definitely doing more!