Daily Tablet Practice

Day One

45 minutes on my first painting with the tablet. Just getting used to the tablet and working with a pen instead of a mouse.

Day Two

More practice with light and shadows.

I tried to work with white and black as much as possible on this one while still keeping some color in the picture. Could use some practice on textures as well...

Day Three

I'm trying to work with light as much as I can in these daily paintings.

This one started off as a quick speed paint, but once I got to the lighting, I ended up needing as much time as I could get.

Speed painting. I stopped at 35 minutes. This one was great practice on perspective. Creating it at first took me some time. I guess I just have trouble getting the perspective I have in mind on to the canvas.

Day Four

Playing with light, shadows and perspective. The three things I need the most practice with. I found drawing the light source and the surface's direction to be very helpful with all parts.

Tablet + Photoshop

First painting I did after getting a tablet for the first time. A Wacom Bamboo. Limited myself to 35 minutes on this one in Photoshop. Speed painting practice. Looks like i need work with lighting mostly.

One layer in photoshop.

Also painted in Photoshop. Nearly 2 hours painting time. Original size was 2000x3600. Mostly work with textures and lighting. I say I need as much practice as I can get.

Custom Painted Vans

I bought a pair of Faded Glorys that just happened to be my size at the thrift store. $8 bucks for a plain tan pair. I figured I could spend $10 on paint and make them my own, so this is what came of that brilliant idea:

6 hours of painting freehand with not much of a plan, but it worked out I'd say. Lots of changing up sketches and plans, but I'm happy with the results.

Like I said, $8 dollar shoes, $10 on fabric paints and $4 on paint thinner to clean things up in the end.

Next pair I need to be a bit more clean. Colors mixed where they weren't supposed to and the surrounding rubber on the bottom got almost a full coat of paint.

Here's the background of the right shoe before it was covered up by the octopus and bubbles.

A picture of the pair after the first session. I wanted to stick to reds, yellows and tan, but like I said, plans changed.

 Work area:

 I sketched up the entirety of both shoes before starting on the painting process. It's a much more crisp and detailed image with just pencil. With enough practice, I'll be able to do that with paint.

Before starting, I sketched up a rough plan. In my head I was going to draw a template for the left and right and do everything real precise.  After finishing the left sketch, this all changed. I just worked off of it and decided to get right to the real deal as soon as possible.  The only things that stayed consistent between this and the final shoes were the sun and smoke.

Before anything was done to them