Another Warm Up Piece

Barbarian Queen

Some more Warm Up Pieces

More Warm Up pieces from my art group. As with before I use these to experiment with new brushes and techniques. Especially working towards a natural feel with digital media. I don't usually spend a lot of time on these, anywhere between 30 minutes to an hour often depending on the amount of interruptions I get. 

Muddy Barbarian:

 Ceremonial Cardigan:

Face Off:

Been a really long time...

Probably been too long since I've posted on here, but believe it or not I've actually been working on things. Most of which I can't post on here yet but I have been working on warm up pieces and such so I figure I should start posting some of those here until my other projects wrap up. Once those do I will be posting lots more.

One of the art groups that I belong to does what we call Weekly Warm Ups, just topic suggestions that can be used in any way to inspire the artist. Could be spitpaintings, full pieces, practice with new techniques, etc. I thought I'd start posting those here to keep things current on here again.

For me, most of these warm ups are a chance for me to work with new brushes and techniques and see what directions I can push myself into.

Here are a few of my recent ones.

Marsh Army:

Iron Ox:

Elevation:

I'll post a few more older pieces soon too.

Contemplative Vampire...

Lunch Sketch.

Lunch time droids

Quick lunch painting...

30 minutes tops. Just messing around with tool presets and various symmetry methods.

A few recent sketches/test pieces

Just messing around with some new presets, tools and brushes. Not more than 40 minutes or so spent on these.

Bob Ross inspired...

Watched a Bob Ross painting marathon this weekend. I had a few free minutes at work but my tablet was at home today, so I wondered how much I could accomplish using a mouse and working with his principles and applying his techniques using a digital medium. About 40 minutes total time.

A late night sketch

A 40 minute, late night, one brush, one layer painting.

Quick environment piece.

A quick little painting inspired by a photo my cousin took this morning. Spent roughly 20 minutes on it.

A quick landscape painting

About 20 minutes or so...

Space Mining Facility

Another 30 minute piece.

Quick studies

30 minute color mood studies.

Environment Speedpainting

30 minute lunchtime work.

Saturday Afternoon Painting...

Another photography inspired piece, but no actual reference used. 45-60 minutes roughly spent on this one.

Hazy Road...

Decided to do another quick 30 minute piece. Inspired by a photo I came across.

Spit Paintings

Still trying to get back into the stride of doing these quicker pieces again.  Ninja from the Future and Skeleton Lord both took roughly 30 minutes to bring to this point. Maybe someday I'll come back and take some of these further...maybe.

Glowing Hot Weapon

Another 30 minute painting I forgot to post from a couple days ago.

A couple more quick warm up paintings

30 to 40 minutes each.

A few quick paintings

Just a few paintings using some spit painting topics. All of these were done under an hour, but exact time I can't be sure of. I was interrupted by something on each one. Go figure. The Ark in Water and Lava Falls paintings I did 90 -100% of with a mouse because I didn't have my tablet with me. :}