Happy New Year

Happy New Year!

What do you wish from 2013?
Personally I would like more time to work and focus and inspiration.

Here's a few pictures I made on a trip.

2012 Works

Works that I did for a project.

Merry Christmas

And holidays are back again. :)
I've been quite happy since I got a great and unexpected gift this year. An intuos 5. It's really thin and it doesn't take so much space like my old one.
Here's some differences:

Also the difference from 1024 pressure sensitivity to 2048 it's quite nice.

I'm a bit worried about the plastic nib intuos 5 has. I only used it for a few days and it's already blunt. The one from my old intuos 3 took months to get on this stage. Might be because of the surface, intuos 5 has actually a great grip.

Anyway, here's the first drawing I made with it...

Out of mana?

Things have been weird lately and I didn't got the time to draw as much personal stuff, except some sketches and a mana potion.

I found the sketch of this mana potion I made while randomly browsing through my old works and I decided I should definitely finish it by the end of 2012.
I think I have at least 2 more personal drawings I have to finish up before the end of this year. Wish me luck.

Speed Paintings

Here's some speed paintings.

1h for wut girl

and 30mins for landscape.

Speedie

Some speed painting self portrait.
I really wanted to take this into a complex self portrait, but I stopped at about 40 mins.
Obviously, this wasn't it.

Lady and the Tramp

Um, I must say that the new interface for blogger is kind of weird.
I try to get past the urge that everybody has when changes are made to these sites, which is automatically hate.
Honestly I don't understand why the developers when trying to improve an interface, even a game end up with totally crap. They should let things as they are and improve them with advanced stuff not just changing the design and worse adding idiotic animations to buttons. I find this very confusing and ridiculous and maybe right now I just don't want to get past that urge that makes me hate the new interface, for blogger, photoshop and a series of games!

So while trying to ignore all this I should probably add some new stuff that I've worked on.
My drawing jam entry after lots of caffeine. Theme was re-designing any character from Lady & the Tramp. I went for the main chars

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Oil Painting "The Road"

So I really wanted to paint something traditionally for a while now and I decided a simple landscape will do.
For the subject I choose something really simple, so it could go faster.
It took around 5-6 hrs in about 2 days.

So here's my landscape:
Size: 48x38cm



I also made a recording out of it and it came out quite in low quality which reminds me I really need to get a camera...

More Sketches

So this is a speed painting I've done the other day.



And here's more sketches.

S comes from...

September came faster then I wanted. Even though I've spend the last 2 weeks travelling I only have a few pics to share.
More pics to my facebook page: Photography



As for drawing, here's some sketches.
I'm trying to become faster since I tend to lose a lot of time and also I definitely want to make my stuff more dynamic.
About 4-6 minutes for each pose.



And check up some speed painting. Almost 1 hr, with reference. This supposed to be a 5 min sketch but I got carried away.