Two hours from reference. One thing I realized after doing that last illustration is how terribly slow I am with painting digitally. My current rate of production is totally unacceptable for professional work. I need to make a concerted effort to change that.
I also am trying to let go of the tendency to work so tightly and just enjoy the feel of a carefree sketch. I picked up Sargent's Figures and Landscapes the other day and I was pretty amazed at how loosely the guy worked. Seeing his art, as well as those of Chinese artists like Benjamin and Zhuzhu convinced me that I need to start doing speed paints from reference as a way to get used to the digital process, understand color relationships, and experiment with how efficient I can be with the default hard round brush in Photoshop.
I'll try to do at least one a day, and aim to spend no more than two hours on a study. It won't be that hard to fit in the time for these actually; I usually have a couple of hours to kill before heading to bed, so I'll dedicate that block of time for these exercises. Gotta get my hours in whenever I can.
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Awesome pic!
You among Zhuzhu and those other guys you listed have made me decide to do more photo refs too... started yesterday in fact :D
by the way, do you know about this? "DrawR is simple and elegant drawing application for your iPhone and iPod Touch. ..."
Do little comp studies and paintings on your phone! I learned some stuff about economy of line and the relativity of color to one another, when working on that tiny tiny Nintendo DS screen. Maybe you'll find the same thing on your iPhone!
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