Back to basics

Okay, so I decided to picked up oil painting again. I have not been oil painting for almost 10 years now. The Michelangelo's David Photoshop was a “test” drive for oil painting. Definitely, did not help.

So let's see.

Step 1.
I started with charcoal sketch on canvas. Hey, I don’t really know what is the official way to do this thing. I think I’m a pretty decent sketcher. Pretty good I guess, aside from the fact that it doesn’t look like the sculpture at all.


Step 2.
I really have no idea what to do. Ten years ago, I had instructor! He is incredibly talented. Anyway, I draw over the sketch using black paint. Let’s see if this do me any good.


Step 3.
Next, I tried to use color and I got swamp-thing. I started from the dark area first. Whether or not this helps, that’s another story. Did I mention I did not know what I was doing? Great.


Step 4.
Take note: I always starts with the eyes when I draw portrait. Eyes are difficult to draw, so if you screw up, you can immediately start over


Step 5.
Hey there, now you look pretty good I guess. Crap! I forget I need to do the hair also. What to do???


Step 6.
Hmm, the hair is tough. Hair is actually one of my weakest point. Hmm, need to draw more.


Step 7.
Lesson to myself. Do not draw in under yellow lights. Always use white lights! This looks really gray! And he looks like 40 years old! Ah well. To be continued.

Michelangelo's David

Where the wild things are.

Lunch Sketch#5 - Random Hunter Tiger Stuff

Lunch Sketch#4 - Continue

I did not have much time to work on this today.
Hmm, I’m not sure where this is going—

Lunch Sketch#4 - What the hair?

Note to self: Learn how to draw hair.

Lunch Sketch #3

About 15 minutes.

Umm.. Yeah.

Old Man Head

Today is awesome day. After many many trials and errors, I finally made my 1st successful 3D model of a person's face. I used Blender, an open source software for 3D modeling, rendering, animation and such. I also include my work in progress. Check them out.







And finally…

Lady Sketch

This one is for clients. They like the sketchy look. But they don’t like the face. Ouch.

Banner, finally!

Finally, I got it done…for now.

Old Warrior

Paul Nini & Brian Stone

They are my college professors. They teach Visual Communication Design.

Paul Nini.


Brian Stone.

Lunch Sketch #2

I just downloaded a bunch of Photoshop brushes. They’re so awesome! As you can see, I was probably having too much fun and sort of abused it. Anyway, this is about 20 minutes sketch and 30 minutes random painting and splattering.

Jon Stewart

Here’s a question. What would politics be without Jon Stewart? The answer: not funny. He is the man. If he runs for president, I would vote for him. Anyway, I did this one pretty quickly. It was about 30 minutes of sketch and 1 hour of painting in Photoshop. Enjoy.

Vespa

I know keep drawing human faces is going to be boring…Okay, I lied. It’s never boring, in fact, it's always interesting and it’s the best. However, just for the sake of variation, heeeeeeeere’s Vespa! Why Vespa? Who cares? It’s awesome.

Note to self: Practice drawing circles. My tires suck…

Audrey Hepburn

Okay, another old drawing. However, this is one of the drawings I’ve done that I truly like. Enjoy.

My Niece

This painting is a few months old. I have not had the time to draw anything recently. Hopefully, I’ll get back to it again. Meanwhile, enjoy and have a nice day.

Eyes

This is just some sketches of eyes.

Banner sketch

This is a sketch for my blog banner. Lame, I know. I like the crazy monkey, though. Maybe I should let it hold some sort of shotgun or AK-47. Or maybe I'll just have it throwing a coconut at me.