Portrait Drawing 3 - 45mins

Faces 30

Life Drawing 15 - 30mins

Portrait Drawing 2 - 45min

Faces 29

Portrait Drawing 1

Life Drawing 14

Faces 28

Faces 27

Figures 14

A bit of structural practice

Regress

Regress - Close 1

Regress - Close 2

Faces 26

Faces 25

Figures 13

Figures 12

Faces 24

Back to the oil paints

Derivation

Derivation - Close

Figures 11

Figures 10

Faces 23

Life Drawing 13

A marathon session in support of Tiffany Cole and great work to all involved!

New Brighton - Lunchtime

Some lunchtime wanderings

Figures 9

Faces 22

Vine charcoal

Strobe

Figures 8

Figures 7

Figures 6

Very late to the party here, but only now discovering how nice it is to use charcoal on newsprint paper

Insomnia

Coniston 2

The Old Man of Coniston lake

Coniston 1

The Old Man of Coniston

Faces 21

Bit more charcoal pencil, less chunky vine charcoal

Excrescence - Close

Excrescence

Faces 20

Attempting to keep it simple with just a big chunk of willow charcoal

Burn

Figures 5

Pressed

Messing around with concrete

Faces 19

Life Drawing 12

Life Drawing 11

Spider

Spider (Close)

Faces 18

Marks

Apothecary

Faces 17

Figures 4 (Collaboration)

Figures 3 (Collaboration)

Sleep 01

Sleep 02

Sleep 02 (Close)

Head Sketch

Messing in a different style

Eye Sketch

Charcoal pencil

EyeEyeEye

More sculpting

EyeEyeEye Close

Faces 16

Messing with oil paints

Mix

(Mostly) Acrylic on canvas

Faces 15

A bit quicker on the charcoal sketching. Skipping on the details

Faces 14

Erosion

Been learning how to use zBrush a bit more. It still melts my brain.

Erosion Close

Seated

Life Drawing 10

Life Drawing 9

Few gestures sketches from The Virtual Figure session

Faces 13

Life Drawing 8

Slowly attempting to get back into the swing of regular drawing again, and always great to have The Virtual Figure give the swift kick into gear

Waiting

Having a bit of an art block. So made some art about having art block :)

Life Drawing 7

Last of the year!

Hands

Revisiting skin shaders and getting a better understanding on how to build ‘em

Faces 12

Eye eye

Figures 2

Charcoal on paper

Life Drawing - 04 Dec 20

Portraits with Yulia Bas

Waves

Bit of wind and waves

Life Drawing - 20 Nov 20

Plenty of vine charcoal with The Virtual Figure session

Figures 1

Attempting to put my learnings from the likes of The Virtual Figure into practice

Veneer

Some more messing with the workflow

Life Drawing - 29 Oct 20

Life Drawing - 16 Oct 20

Displacement

Some workflow R&D

Life Drawing - 02 Oct 20

More across-the-internet figure drawing

Life Drawing - 18 Sept 20

Across-the-internet life drawing session. Attempting to get a better handle on drawing figures

Faces 11

Void

Heavy duty charcoal

Wanderings - Stairs

Some recent wanderings

Wanderings - Bench

Some recent wanderings

Wanderings - Boat

Some recent wanderings

Corner

Some sunnier 3D

Pull

Messing with fabric and shadows

Lower

A bit more studying on shaders and lighting

Molded

Playing with some heavier mediums. It has the consistency of cake icing though, so there’s a 30% chance I end up eating my paints

Eye

Attempting to get my head around more organic shaders

Faces 10

More charcoal

Faces 9

More vine charcoal

Faces 8

Willow charcoal

Faces 7

More messing with charcoal

Faces 6

Eye practice

Found

Material and lighting study

Faces 5

Charcoal on paper. I guess this sort of counts as an Inktober?

Charcoal Hair Sketch

Hallway

Playing with more dramatic lighting and angles

Faces 4

Oil, Ink, Charcoal, the Kitchen Sink

Worship

Tracks

Getting more of a grip on modelling and texturing

Inverse

Gouache on canvas

Printed Woland

Getting the 3D printing treatment

Laan

Faces 3

Pencil attempt

Texture Painting

Actually quite a relaxing endeavour. Once you get past the nightmare of trying understand UV maps.

Wave

Faces 2

Some more portrait painting

Woland

Some Master and Margarita infused workings. Built with zBrush, Marvelous Designer, Cinema 4D and Octane

Matt Black

Testing out the mattiest matt black of paints from Stuart Semple

Wales

Full set: https://flic.kr/s/aHskBD5umH

Faces

Giving the paint brush another go

Texture

It’s all early days at the moment, but Substance Painter is great

Relic No. 2 - Still

Build No. 2

Sands

Trying new paint mixtures, with a quick 3D pass

Relic No. 1 - Still

Build No. 1

Just keep adding to the canvas

Landscape

Finally back in 3D. With a new build, Octane Render and high res materials to play with.

Emerge

No Collision

Summe

VSRN

Annenkov

Trying a bit more acrylic on canvas

A2 print is also now available from

Mass

Transmit

House of Gore and Vortex

Marbling with sumi ink and producing some acceptable mess

Sculpting Rock

More learning of zBrush and how sculpting works. Also a first try at texture painting with Quixel

Negatives II

Negatives I

Bit more of the painting and mixing

Lucent Forms: Yoroi

Finishing up the set. So will be heading back, making some tweaks to earlier pieces and collecting them all together as a complete project

Lucent Forms: Obatake

Lucent Forms: Tagi

Formby / Crosby

Photos taken at Formby and Crosby https://flic.kr/s/aHskFjEpcf

Lucent Forms: Baishinji

Lucent Forms: Shimonada

Districts

Sumi ink and poster nibs

Lucent Forms: Nebukawa

vita::morte::vita

Bit of further exploration with 3D and natural textures

Lucent Forms: Todoroki

Lucent Forms: Kitahama

Divided Acrylics: Tomar

another go on a larger canvas

Blind Mirror

Divided Acrylic: Slesfmia

Giving a try on a larger canvas

Acrylic Panel: Olsv

Acrylic Panel: Wtxa

Iter

Green Lane

Odyean

Delving into 3D textures and materials, with some additional tweaks mixed in there.

Frozen Down

Bringing out some texture

Sequence:03

Last of the set

Inverted (Tempera powder)

Tempera Powder

throwing things at masked-out paper

Sequence:02

Still playing about with moving fabrics and how they warp

Fluent

Sequence:01

Dunes

Divided acrylics

Mirrored

Time & Space

Adding some older work

Nest

Beach

Stags

Adding some older work

Ink Tests: Household 1

Being & Time

Adding some older work

Broken Head

Turned an accident into a thing

Sketch: Old Man

Sketch: Owl

My Brain is Open

Adding some older work

Fog

Up on Flickr https://www.flickr.com/photos/hamspoons/sets/72157651819307385

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