Stuff I've done recently!

In Greek Mythology, Epimeliads are
the guardian spirits of apple trees (and also sheep).

My second Shepard from Mass Effect.

An attempt to get myself to stop blending so much too early in the process.
Partially based on Frances McDormand.

Screenshot redraw from Green Lantern: The Animated Series.
It's such a pretty show. 

Dumbing of Age is a fantastic webcomic about college students and shenanigans, and you should be reading it. Dorothy is predictably my favorite. 

Speed Painting #11

Last one of the night! Phew.

Photo Credit

Speed Painting #10

Marathon resumes! Trying Anh's method: Blocking out the large shapes fuzzily, then working it out in the 4 quadrants. I deviated from the plan a bit, but I like it overall. 

Source: Can't find the site I originally found it on (because apparently it is on every site for this thing), but the subject is Kilchurn Castle. 

Time: 1 hr

Speed Painting #9!

Came to join Jess and Anh's's speed painting marathon, except now they're playing Settlers of Cataan. SLACKERS. Just kidding. They're still ahead of me. 

Photo Credit

Time: 1hr? ish? Time is an illusion!

Speed Painting #8

Haven't done one of these in a while! Kinda forgot how. I need to start focusing on bigger shapes, spent way too much time zoomed in while working on this.

Time: ~1hr 30min?

Photo credit: msanchezimages.blogspot.com

Speed Painting #6

Wanted to try something different. Don't like the end result very much at all (probably could've stood to nitpick a little more this time), but at least the colors are closer than normal. Just noticed I erased the snail's third... antennae thing and forgot to put it back. /facepalm

Photo credit: darknight-stock @ deviantART

"Speed" Painting #5

I had a #4, but abandoned it because I was nitpicking too much. Need to work faster! 

Not sure exactly how long this took, but it was on and off during 3 episodes of Fringe. I know this one gave a lot of people trouble, so I decided to try working on it rotated 90°. The darks need to be darker (as usual), the whole thing should be a bit more red, the angle of the window is off, and I had no idea what to do with the stuff outside the window. Still, I'm mostly happy with the end result. 

 Original photo: 

"Speed" Painting #3

Spent wayyy too long on this, oops. I mostly just went until I got bored with it. Really need to work on cutting down the time. Picture from Goro Fujita's sample speed painting images.

Time: 90 min? 120 min?

Speed Painting #2

Not sure how long I took on this one, because I started it Friday, gave up on it, then came back to it today. I don't feel like switching majors as much as I did when I gave up the first time, so that's good. The colors don't really feel like they belong in the same picture together though...

Photo is one my dad took at the church near Lake Sevan in Armenia.

Time: An hourish?

Speed Painting #1

Hey guys, I finally made a blog too. Here's my first speed painting. Still regretting I missed the original presentation everyone went to to learn how to do these, but they're fun.

Time: 60min.

Picture was one I took on my recent trip to London. The colors are so wrong on the trees! And the perspective is embarrassing. I need to stop getting so caught up on little details before I have the whole thing blocked out. Also, next time I'll remember to pick something that doesn't have a white background.