Oil painting from life!

Today i finally got my hands dirty with oils! I've never done any traditional painting before, except from a little playing around. I had a lot of fun, and oil paint is a very interesting medium. I obviously have a lot to learn still, but i'm very happy with my results after 4-5 hours of painting. This is definately something I'd wanna explore further!
Thanks to Laoura for sitting still all that time!

Style exploration

Did a 1 hour thunderdome vs Luis (maxetormer), the topic was "witch". He showed me some stuff earlier today that really inspired me, so i tried something very different from what i usually do. It was a lot of fun, and very strange, working on properly named layers and everything.. usually i just flatten and mess everything up. ;)

There's some mistakes, the most obvious one being the different lenght of the legs, but i'm pretty happy with it for a 1 hour piece. Lesson learned: Next time I'll spend more time getting the basics right in the sketch stage, before even considering ink and color!

Thanks for playing Luis, it was a lot of fun!

Ifx cover competition + livestream

Hey dudes and dudettes. Just wanted to post my work in progress on my entry for the IFX cover competition, and also link you guys to my livestream. You can watch this picture from rough thumbnail up to about this state on demand on my livestream channel. I apologize for the crappy sound, i'm not saying anything worthwhile anyways, so you might as well mute it and just watch.

I will, as much as i can, try to paint this piece live. That way people can watch the piece being painted pretty much from start to finish. There's gonna be some small steps in between, but i'm gonna make a step by step gif when i finish, so if some stage of the painting doesn't get recorded you can still see the stages when i finish.

my livestream channel can be found here: http://www.livestream.com/skullsong

Peace out.

The sketch below won me an ORIGINAL ALVIN LEE SKETCH on the chiustream! WOOOOT!

Street fighter character!

Tuned in to the chiu stream today, Bobby was interviewing comic book artist Alvin Lee! Alvin gave the topic of "design your own street fighter character".

So naturally, i came up with a haitian savateur...

About 2 hours. Photoshop.


PS: I also had a nocturnal visitor earlier. It was the cutest little mouse i've ever seen. We had a stareoff for about an hour, before i lost patience and shoved him into the box with the inconspicuous bread and the inconspicuous lid halfway closed.. I put him outside and he said "thanks for not killing me" and ran off like only little mousies on a mission can. I closed the vent where he crawled in, apparently bug nets arent meant for mice. I'll use this incident as leverage for my landlord to let me keep a kitten! ;)

More chiu-streaming! Its so much fun to take a break from painting an paint with bobby! And seriously inspiring! The challenge this time was 1 hour self portrait.

Chiuism!

I've been tuning into Bobby Chiu's streams, and find them very inspiring. It just makes you wanna paint! Here's the challenge for today, 1 hour cowboy. Topic by guest speaker Stephen Silver. Thanks guys!

Chiu & co:

http://imaginismstudios.blogspot.com/
http://www.ustream.tv/channel/bobby-chiu-broadcasting