Form Study

So I tried to do a figure study.  Used a lot of reference, and painted in highlights based on where each muscle was.  Somewhat successful, but please feedback is appreciated.  Hope I can get better at characters.

Master Copy by Ryan

Sorry for not doing this sooner.  haha I'm dumb.

Paintover for Kevin

Yo, so I originally did a paintover of Kevin's female figure.  I dont'know if any of you all saw it, but it was pretty terrible. So I re-did it.  Here's the updated version.  So basically, I took Kevin's design and re-interpretted but with proportion, anatomy, gesture integrated.  I tried experimenting with color a little too.  For the cast shadows, I added a little green just to hint a little bounced light.  I'm still not too happy with how this came out though.  I can't figure out what's wrong with it.  I think the colors might be unbalanced, too much saturation coupled with not enough in some areas perhaps.  If you all have suggestions, by all means say them.  btw, this took about 3 hours to do.  Anyway, man.  I can't stress it enough.  Learn anatomy!

Speed to kinda Finished (Cont) - 2 hours

Here's a Continuation from last week.  I used another one of the random silhouettes I painted to come up with this dude. 

 

Jman

More speed paintings (45 minutes each)

So I spent the first 15 minutes using a brush I've never used, listening to some bomb ass music and closing my eyes.  Whatever shapes came out is what I painted.  Not quite how I want them to be, but it's a good experimenting start.  Let me know what you guys think.

 

 

Jman

Ryan's Paintover

Yo Ryan! Glad to see you're posting!  Yeah man, so Kevin did a pretty good job of critiquig your work.  So rather than just repeat him, I just did a paint-over to point out some of the things kevin mentioned.  So like Kevin said, I moved the focal point over to the side, rather than in the middle.  First of all I stretched your canvas out a little, cuz it needed some breathing space.  Looking at your design, I thought, it looked like a mayan pyramid sort of design, so I just defined the design a little bit more, and I repeated that pyramid shape in the background to add depth , and also to add interest in the background, rather than just have it be empty.  I also added indications of stone pillars in the foreground that get smaller towards the focal point to add direction and draw the viewer in.  And i made the dude little smaller just to make the pyramid look more epic!  Other than that, it's just cleaning up some lines.  This isnt by any means a finished painting, it's a really quick dirty paint-over just to indicate what improvements I think could be done.  And this took me about an 1 1/2 hours to do, which is actually a bit long.  But otherwise man, it was looking pretty good for your first post.  The more you do this the more you'll learn the guidelines (most of which Kevin already mentioned), and the easier this will be.  You best be posting more stuff man.! 

first post

LMAO wow this is hard, top one was the speed one bout 40 minutes


Ryan

30 minute speed paintings

Trying stuff out, experimenting with brushes.  I'm not happy with the way my value set ups are starting to look identical to each other.  Next batch I'm going to try to break it up.  And the panda was supposed to be chillin, but he just looks dead.  haha so fail.

Speed Paintings to Finished Paintings

Here are my final paintings for Red Engine.  Each took about 3-4 hours total to do. 

Jeffrey Bounthavong