Painting Day 2

Hey everyone. Today I started 2 paintings. First off I started to work on a mountain scene with a lake in front of it, however I only worked for about 30 minutes on this and got a rough block in and colour palate started.

Mountain Scene

And my second painting, I'm really enjoying working on this while listening to her music, Im only getting started but am quite happy with how things are turning out so far. Ellie Goulding is my next subject.

Ellie Goulding

Both of these paintings will be finished in an upcoming post unlike the last painting I posted. This brings me to my next topic. I will be out of town camping with my brother for the next 3-4 days. However I will still pledge to do 14 paintings or more over 14 days, posting multiple once I get back. Not every painting will be 100% complete as, like yesterdays post, I will use some to try out a new technique.

Thanks for reading everyone! and let me know how i'm doing with my current 2 WIP paintings, and if you have any tips to improve my art let me know, yesterday A friend helped me out by letting me know that you can assign a hotkey to flip the canvas. Thank you as this has saved me from destroying my knuckles and wrists =)

Signing off till the weekend,

David J Stelmaschuk

Breaking Radio Silence.

Hey guys,
Update for you today. I've shelved my forest cottage scene. I was feeling quite demotivated by it. I have however practiced up on some particle effects which was my goal for the project. Currently I've been thinking a lot about a project that a buddy and I came up with about a year ago. Ive been trying to design a story in my head and I'm getting really close to having it picture perfect in my mind. However, This leaves me needing to learn how to do some decent concept art, Which brings me to why I'm posting today.

I've just started to do a few WIP Digital paintings. These will give me a rough idea of what a character or scene looks like. I'm not going for details in these paintings, I will first try to establish tone, and a character likeness, something that makes characters unique.

I will be trying to do 1 Painting a day for a few weeks, I will upload all paintings here on the blog.

Please please please, if you see something you like/don't like, something I can do to improve my work, Let me know. I'm still in a learning stage for doing this kind of work and can use any and all advice that you can give to me. Thanks in advance!

And my WIP painting for the day:

I hoped to learn more about tone in this painting, its far from finished, but I learned alot about light and colour  in this and I feel that I completed the goal that I set out to achieve. Thanks for the read everyone. Tomorrow I will be uploading an environment painting. I hope to use tones and colours to take it one more step from this type of work tomorrow.

Once again, I'm still learning, and would love to hear any feedback that you can give me for my concept digital painting's sake

See you tomorrow,

David J Stelmaschuk