Playing with colour

Came up with a quick idea and played around with a colour scheme from the water scene from Ghost in the Shell.

Closer

Been staring at this mug for the last couple hours. Sculpting is truly an intimate form of art.

Old piece

Old Gouache piece for a Graphics Design course completed in 2012.

So close!!

Note to self-
Never ever use soft sculpy again! Even with the wire armature up inside his palm, his fingers were still sagging. So many times I had to rework squished areas. The little flaky bits were driving me insane as well. Though I don't know if that is just a sculpy thing in general. *sigh* I think I need another medium for this type of work.

Nearly there.

Coraline Colour studies

Studied the different lighting scenes of Coraline.

I noticed while painting that if you start with a shadow base layer you can build up to your lights and as you do you introduce chroma that is of the light source subtly.

Iguana study

This reference was great because you see 4 out of the 5 types of lights clearly throughout or form changes of the Iguana:
lots of strong highlights
blue half tones
the nice big core shadow of the neck sack
beautiful golden reflected light

Then there occlusion shadows around the cheek area.

Would be nice to render it further but I would have to get fiddly with scales. If I'm studying animals for design then that would be more appropriate such as the patterns on a Tigers face. This was a colour and light study. Definition will come later with another creative piece that I want to put more time into.

Even at the time of uploading this I can tell I need to punch in more chroma into the reflected light. Generally everywhere as well.

Reference

https://www.flickr.com/photos/tambako/14510940987

Beetle shell study

My current understanding of what 'looseness' means is that the painting has been made to look like its been rushed together, but you still identify each layer of value that represents the form and lay down the appropriate colour. The loose part comes in when you don't worry about refining your brush strokes or smudging.

This is from the point of trying to understand looseness by practise, not being told what it is.

Reference
https://www.flickr.com/photos/tambako/9341194504/in/photolist-fes4FE-861KNj-hznCFx-7GM1k-az79zZ-8xEM5o-qN3tc-6tWukt-8J4J4g-Bcqwq-ry6jQ-JAE3v-7GHzpq-5HHMSX-dnZQpa-8hN4Mn-25XQA-hz4WKn-dCPyAj-yvzHs-fj11Ya-83hSY8-5HFCfW-51pE5X-8KvvLR-nwm3mB-6o1LWn-bpwjee-3AvBtV-33Ec39-3MHdHM-ehdJjz-6ZWASV-d1pgYG-2vL6RQ-83yX1E-7QXX5S-gRYSBi-9gkKro-8u9TyN-fWPeMe-uJJki-wvJCR-4XHLPg-eg4GPE-82KvEm-f5fQE-DCkA3-7AyV4A-bFuGne