I seem to be on some kind of painting frenzy for the past week. I’ve been having a lot of fun making time lapse videos of my own work. It’s very interesting to see your own work kind of “appear” out of nothing in 10 minutes! 😛
My latest one is a relatively weak attempt at painting Aya Hirano of Haruhi fame. Overall, I wasn’t satisfied with this one, and actually got pretty frustrated. Probably because it’s the first time I’ve tried to paint an asian girl. That and the fact that I lost a bit of work in the beginning due to an encoding error during the capture added to the frustration. Overall this took 80 minutes plus whatever minutes at the beginning. Still, after all that frustration subsided, I enjoyed making the time lapse, and adding the music to it. Enjoy!
[pro-player]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CC4wKMaRjR8[/pro-player]
In addition to the speed painting of Aya Hirano, I had done two other speed painting works, which I might as well share here:
[pro-player]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YApjO3rYiv4[/pro-player]
A speed painting of my friend wearing a pair of Grado RS-2 headphones. It took approximately 50 minutes to paint this from beginning to end, sped up 8x
[pro-player]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rAM_4eLxM5E[/pro-player]
A speed painting of a forelorn man done in photoshop Speed painting is over a period of 50 minutes or so.
Overall, a pleasant experience, and it’s helped me look at my own art in a different way and practice my skills at the same time!
this.. is.. FREAKING AWESOME
*jaw drops*
nice work even though I have a dislike for hirano aya ^^
Thanks! You dislike Aya Hirano? Why? I don’t know anything about her other than the fact that she’s the VA and singer for Haruhi. 😛
There are always supporters and haters.
Nice work! I think the left side of her chin looks a bit too broad though.
Pig disgusting Hirano Aya.
Other than that it looks nice.
Your flow of work is very fluent.I am honored to of come across this.
Finally got time to see it, very cool. As usual great work! I definitely love the technique you used of shading in the tones and overlaying the color later as I use it all the time.
As for the picture, for an 80 minute drawing, it’s awesome. Though I find it a little flat, especially the face. I don’t know the reference picture you’re using, so maybe the picture itself has a lot of ambient light so there might not be much shadowing on the face. Overall it looks fine, I could kind of see you not putting as much care for everything else other than the face and hair though. I have that problem too. For the subect matter of painting Aya Hirano, I think you’ve succeeded beccause the first thing I noticed when I saw the picture was that it was Aya Hirano. b(^_^)b
I’m just wondering about this, do you ever check your work by flipping the image horizontally? I usually do and it really helps me fix things because I often draw things on a slant.
BTW, nice touch with the greenish blue eye/eyeliner color.
Awesome work!
I’ve been viewing a lot of your videos recently and I must say I’m really impressed!
Thanks everyone!
@kaiga: Thanks! Be sure to check back for more stuff in the near future!
@kin: Took you long enough! j/k!! really!!
I found the shading first, and coloring overlay kinda worked, and kinda didn’t. I think after it gets to a certain point, I have to flatten the color layer and paint directly, because you can’t get good highlights and shadows on the color layer, and trying to correct it on the shading layer is counter-intuitive.
She does look really flat. And yeah, most of it is due to the original photo reference being high in ambient lighting. Frustrated the heck out of me and made it very difficult to draw her features accurately.
The lacking of detail for the rest of the image was basically me giving up. lol.
I sometimes flip the image around. I think I should do that more often. ^_^
@Apple: Thanks! I really appreciate it, and I like the articles you write on your blog too! They’re all very interesting!
Another great work ^^ Your time lapse video is kinda inspiring me to do something similar as well… though it won’t be speed painting since I don’t know how to ^^;
And I see you’re signing with your real name these days… I seem to remember you use your handle before, or was it just watermarks?
Thanks dude! I hope to see some of your work sometime. 🙂
I used a program called CamStudio to record me painting. It’s actually very easy to do.
Yeah, I used to use a watermark. I still do for my anime and photoshop images. Anything non-anime, I sign with my name.
Great stuff. I always wanted to learn how to paint like that, though I’m still not too good at understanding light and shadows. Right now my stuff is pretty flat and cartoonish.
Heh thanks, I’m not too happy with this Aya one… she’s looking a little too flat and cartoonish too. Ah well. Just gotta keep trying I guess.
I usually don’t post in blogs but your blog forced me to, amazing work.. beautiful !
lol! Seriously? Then I’m impressed!
I must say! Not bad at all! ^_^ Though I would recommend playing around with ‘stronger’ colors if you will – just looks a little on the flat side now :p
Really cool blog you have. Let the Force be with you or like say my friend from Khazahstan “great success”!
Thanks!
I had to remove your web link because it seems suspiciously spam-like.