Painting Tutorial II

This week, I continued my painting tutorial, which has, since last week, morphed from Mortal Kombat into Thor. Unfortunately, this change has not made much of a difference in the extreme difficulty of this project. I have learned that I am not good at painting in photoshop unless I have something i can trace, either from paper into the tablet, or tracing over an image in Photoshop. Hopefully over time, this skill will improve, however for now, the level of quality on this project is nowhere close to the quality of my other projects, even though the effort I've put into this is higher than I've put into others. This is what I've done so far.

Painting PIece

Over the course of this week, I made a valliant attempt to paint. Unfortunately, I'm not very good. It has taken an inordinate amount to time to get this far on my piece, and I'm willing to call it quits. In other news, my dali piece was submitted to the show.

Surrealism 3

This week I completed a third surrealism piece, and again, I think this is one of my best pieces yet. For most of the week, I was having trouble making the piece work, but then on wednesday, I pulled it together, and was able to make it work, and work well. I really learned a lot making this piece, and I feel like I am improving fast.

80's Themed Poster

For this week's project, I followed a tutorial for an 80's themed poster. This is the coolest tutorial I've ever done, and I have had so much fun making this piece. Though it isn't completely finished, I think it is among my most polished pieces. I can't wait to see what it's like once its complete.

Finished Surrealism II Piece

This week I finished my second surrealism piece. I'm really happy with the way it turned out. I used the pen tool for the majority of this piece, and I'm enjoying becoming more proficient with it. You can tell by the quality of the piece that I'm starting to get the hang of the pen tool. I also found some cool tire track, smoke, and broken glass brushes, which after a bit of transformation, worked perfectly for my piece. This is definitely one of my best quality pieces, and I'm very happy with it.

SURREAL PIECE 2 II

This week, I continued work on my 2nd surreal piece that I mentioned in my previous post. For one element of this piece, I used the pen tool to make a vector graphic of an E30 BMW, which I'm going to attach to this post. This is probably the best work I've done with the pen tool, and some of my very best work ever. I'm very excited to finish this piece!

2nd Surreal Piece

This weeks project is another surreal piece based on a story. Mine involves aliens, BMWs, and hit and runs. So far, I'm using only the pen tool, however I haven't been working on this for very long. I like where it appears to be going, and I cannot wait to see how it will turn out.