In the continuing effort to procrastinate

here's my third try at painting like peter levente (i think that's his name)
1.5hrs

things i learned:
1. it's hard
2. it's really hard
3. dodge, burn - any of the layering methods that produce harsh colours are BAD and take ages to even sorta get rid of...
4. dodge, burn - any of the layering methods that produce harsh colours quickly cause the image to appear.
5. it's pretty fun and i want to get better at this
6. frankly any layering method which produces harsh colours
should be avoided if it all possible.
7. Dani would be a hot barbarian... :p


Awake More Notes:
at first the brushing is pretty random. However, in generally you should be thinking about light and dark and very impressionistic shapes in 3d, ie, paint select an area and paint a bright side then add a dark side, the colour choice doesn't matter just one light and one dark.

when watching his videos note how he pauses, flops the image, impressionisticly paints in an object, connects darks and lights together.


Here Him talk:
http://vimeo.com/927695
painting with intention vs the random
http://vimeo.com/13038087


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Peter Levente's brush pack http://www.megaupload.com/?d=8JG2SGUI

Quicky Paint

Played around some more with this:

needs more spikes ...

Blackguard?

Yeah still nothing for the challenges <_< >_> but ...

flipping through DnD books and take one on where I'd take Sean as a dark knight (though it's really not proportionally Sean nor does it really look like him) ...

Back leg is not done nor is back arm, the latter is causing me problems ...

also ... @trav what is combo ninja?

RPG - rough begninning ideas.

So if I haven't told you yet, I kinda thought up an RPG involving us eight.
As you know I love to classify and group us as certain things and one that I had done earily in the year was; what our job would be if we were part of a fantasy rpg.

To list them off quickly here is what I labled you as;

(¯`·._.·[ Adam ] ~Gravity Master
(¯`·._.·[ Ben ] ~Archer
(¯`·._.·[ Blake ] ~Lucky Pirate
(¯`·._.·[ Dani ] ~Bersker
(¯`·._.·[ Elena ] ~Arch Mage
(¯`·._.·[ Mikki ] ~Combo Ninja
(¯`·._.·[ Sean ] ~Dark Knight
(¯`·._.·[ Travis ] ~Paladin

So I've been steadily working out a battle system for each of us and a plot line.
Why?
Because I seem to enjoy doing things like that.
I wanted to start drawing up guys up as characters as well. And since I branded Sean as the main character in this story I decided that I should probably draw him first. the only problem I was having with that was that since I didn't know how to draw armor... or even what the peices of armor looked like, I spent a vast majority of my time yesterday doing that. I found it very helpful.

I quickly whipped up a sketch of Sean in his Dark Knight armor and began playing arond with some colours and effects.

So by no means is this done, but tell me what you think.
And if you have any ideas reguarding the other characters let me know.

I'll try posting up a good looking pic of everyone in their fantasy costumes and the battle states soon.

Later
~Travis