Another one I'm quite happy with...maybe I'm actually making progress? *grin*

It's Stump

Recommend looking at it full size.

Night City

Just a quick sketch, haven't really felt the creature urge to paint for a while, but today I wanted to do something, so I re-created a photo I found on google images. (This means I didn't paint over the photo, I just used it as a reference)

Yorkshire Moor

Ending tree week with an Asian pine tree. Makes me feel like I'm back in China...

Asian Pine

Here's the fourth entry in "Tree Week".

Sunset Tree

Here's a dramatic departure in style for me. I sketched out a tree, and then scanned it and basically just colored it in (and added a background).

Cartoon Tree

Here's Monday's "Tree Week" entry. The star detail got lost when I downsized the image to upload, I probably should have made them bigger...oh well, live and learn ;)

Tropical Palm Tree

Comments/criticisms welcome :)

Ok, this week is "Tree Week"...I'm going to try to paint at least one scene with a tree as the predominant element each day this week....good practice, if nothing else, and I've had a hard time getting inspired these last couple of weeks.

Here's the first one:

Tree by Pond

I got the idea for this one going to bed last night, and I worked on it off and on all day today..well, ok, when my school wasn't freaking out about the guy killing himself next door with poison gas (ah, another day in Japan!)

Anyway, I really like how the lava turned out, but I'm less happy with the city. *sigh* I feel like I've learned how to get to a certain point, but I don't know what to do after that to make it good...so I feel like I'm one step up from a 5 year old with crayons, but hey, I guess I've fought for that step ;>

Lava Lake City

Complete with flying saucers ;)

I find large buildings in the background really hard to make 3D looking...practice practice practice!

Warfields of Mars

Shadowmoor Swamp

(source idea was one of the new Shadowmoor MtG swamp lands, although I didn't even try to copy it directly.)

Haven't done much in color/on the computer in the last week, so I figured I'd try doing something today.

Blasted Field

I did a couple of paintings/sketches in Shanghai, but was prevented from posting them by the Great Firewall of China. Today I'm doing a *bunch* (like 14 so far) of pencil sketches, but I hate scanning, so I doubt you'll ever see them ;)

Pencil is so easy to play with compared to digital. I don't know why, but it's a lot easier to get good results, at least for me. Nothing like a 6B ;)

Anyway, here are links some of the recent stuff:

Witnessing Doom Playing around with paper textures to achieve a more dynamic look.

Lightning Storm More papers.

Pine Forest Quite happy with this one :)

The Wall Not as happy with this one, playing with textures and perspective.

Birch Tree An attempt to capture the same sort of energy I'm getting in pencil on the computer.

If you made it through all of them, thank you very much :)

Didn't like the depth on the first forest picture, so I did a different one. Still trying to get the hang of Painter. Right now I'm using it and PS almost in tandem. Things like clouds and fog I can get down in PS easier, and PS seems much better for global color changing...but the watercolors and chalk brushes in Painter are da bomb ;)

Forest Stream

Having a ton of fun figuring out Corel Painter X :)

City Streets

It's been almost 2 weeks since I've posted a picture. Here's something quick I did this morning, mostly in Corel Painter X, with a bit of work in Photoshop.

It needs more depth.

I have to laugh though, I have been downloading old rpgs from the early 80s, and this would have fit right in for the art of those books at the time. Clearly the industry has come a long way ;)

Forest Walk