Speed Painting Challenge no. 46.

[ximahmoud]

fantastic work everyone... nucron, splinter..totaly professional..great work man.. but the time is too long..we are talking about hours here not days.. it's a speed painting . your work dont have to be fully done but the idea is reach a good looking image in a short period..so you can do just a speed one in a couple of hours or something a little bit more if you concern about details like i see ..

[Turoid]

Turoid: looking alright, but could be touched up in a lot of places. for example, his ears aren't colored in all the way!? but anyway, it's pretty good so far. a bit more practice and I think you'll have the speed painting thing down.

Thanks for the advice! Yeah I know, I was a bit to fast with posting my work..
Your image looks great!

[stephendm]

Thanks Waheed - I appreciate your feedback I actually tried (very briefly) to do as you say to not have it the very same as the reference I used but I couldn't get it to look right so I left it. I didn't really have much time but I'll probably try to edit it in the future and see how I get on.

Rawwad: I love the sketchy style - Gives the sense of visciousness and anger.

Ximahmoud: Thanks for the comments. You're right - The wacom is class & I think this had to be done I tried changing it as much as possible to give it a bit of my own style like using different colours and adding blood..etc (for a bit of an old skool look) and added some texture (though that's not too clear on the scaled version I had to post) but with my limited time it did turn out very similar alright. No harm though - it's all good practice for me....this was the first face I have ever attempted to paint, reference or no (with the exception of my octopus for that speed paining challenge back in the day... and that was a complete disaster) so I'm quite pleased how this turned out.

Turoid: Very nice attempt. I'm inclined to agree with Nucron though. Another thing which may help is to ease off the opaque brushes/colours and try directly using the colour you want (instead of different levels of white or black over the first colour to lighten or darken tone)....if you know what I mean!?

Splinter: Thats awesome dude! I really love the colours, textures, lighting and ...idea. I'm not sure how long you spent over the 2 days to do it but have a read of this and all will be clear: http://forums.3dtotal.com/showthread.php?t=24525
Even if it isn't allowed, it's still remarkable what can be achieved in just two short days. Nice one!

Nucron: Thanks for the comments & crits. Could you clarify on the symmetry issue it has though please so i'll know for the next time? One thing I do to try and avoid symmetry and perspective problems is constantly flip the image horizontally (and vertically sometimes) while painting and it tends to work but I can't see what you mean here. Maybe I've been away too long
Your picture is really very good by the way Nice colours used. Very evil mood got from the scene . The girls right arm is pointing the wrong way though - looks painful lol

Buffdady: Cheers mate. Looking forward to an entry form your talented self

[w00t]

was a long time since I have been here
Some nice paintings in here, great job. This is my contribution to this challenge and I hope I'll have some time to make another one

[Rusted]

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Crackerlips Glad to see u two back with "Wow " things..... and Rawwad Great Work man... Karsten, Rico, Buffdady and Nucron.. I m Waiting for some art pieces from you too..
Come on Waheed xim is right get into the heat ... I love this Vampire thing though it's ill...!
Well here is my Humble first Entry (not Votable) Only a "Quick" Contribution... Hardly had 15 mins (in Lunch time at work) with a wecom so it is it...
Software is Artrage... i will be back with something else soon ...Hopefully

[HammerCH22]

Good job everyone.

Splinter and Crackerlips, fantastic, really wonderful stuff. I shall be doing one in the next few days when I get a free couple of hours...

[nucron]

thank you for the comments ximahmoud, Turoid, and crackerlips.

crackerlips, sorry I didn't clarify better before. in my view, it seems that your vampire's nose is at an angle as if the face is turned slightly to the right, while the eyes and mouth appear to be facing straight forward. to match up, maybe the center of the nose should be directly above the center of the mouth?

and in my painting, I can see what you mean about the arm. originally I was going to have it go the other way, but then I changed my mind and made it such that the arm/hand is face down on the ground. maybe I should have went the other way.

and rusted, is my picture not showing up for you? it's there, man. by the way, interesting sketch you've done. that's a suave-looking vampire. but his face might be a bit long? great for 15 mins though. I'll look forward to your next one.

w00t, funny idea with the wannabe vampire kid. maybe a bit more could have been done with the background, like maybe putting a shadow under him or something, but for the comic strip style you're going for, it works well. you should sign your work!

[Sicksurfer]

Ok I'm gonna funk it up and be naughty!
Here is vamp ted done in Adobe Illustrator. Took 30 min (rework of previous ted). You don't like him do you? No you don't I can tell. Teddy's need loving too.

Alright! Alright! It is a **** take! I will post my real vampyre image within 24 hours.

[art mekanik]

painter and intuos 3 took 30 minutes just playing with basic colors....reds blues yellows purples greens and orange. plus some black mixed primaries to get secondaries.

[ximahmoud]

nice one art mekanik the pose is very good and the feel in the paint is powerfull..only one thing .. the fangs looks blury at the end.. may be it should be sharpen more to remove the light like..nothing more..well done man

[andoy]

OOh you gotta live vamps.
Crackerlips: now where have i seen your reference before??? LOL Great choice

[Bers]

@Crackerlips

really uninspired..

[Axeface]

Some really nice paintings here! Great likeness of christof crackerlips!

I will try to get something together for this.

[RBL]

Crackerlips: Too close to the reference.

splinter: Too much time for a speedpaint.

rawwad: Looks totally awesome! The best by now.

w00t's looks funny too.

[stephendm]

w00t: Funny comicstrip Hope to see another from you!

Rusted & Hammer: Cheers dudes. Rusted:Your vampire is good enough for 15 mins work. Are you going to funk it up with a bit of colour? I'd like to see that.

Nucron: Thanks again - I see what you mean now alright......I'll only know these things if people tell me so .....nice one! I gotta spend quite some time practicing characters.

Sicksurfer: Now what mean son-of-a-b**ch vampire went and bit the poor teddy? He doesn't look too pleased!

Art Mekanik: Very unusual take on the theme - I like it ....but I'm not sure about having the whole image blurry though!? Looks really well when you stand back a bit and squint.

Andoy: Thanks mate. I figured most people would recognise it

Bers: Did you sign up to Threedy just to tell me that? Thanks for the helpful comment - NOT! I never claimed it was original - I mainly wanted to get the practice in with the short amount of time I had and throw something up since I haven't been here in a while but hey.......I'm happy with it as my first attempt at painting a face! How's about you post a pic and then maybe your comments will have value.

Axeface: Thanks friend.

RBL: Is that a good or a bad thing? Originality-wise, obviously not but some crits on my colouring, symmetry..etc please? See nucron's post - that sorta thing is quite helpful!