Lhune's Art Dump.

Lhune · **Posted:** September 7th, 2009, 3:02 pm

Speedpaintings. Yes. Because I want to force myself to work more loosely and to let my creativity have it's way, rather than planning things ahead.

This first image spawned from chaos, because all I did at first was use a huge black brush on a low opacity and splatter all over the canvas, then with some whites, and with some blacks again until I started seeing shapes and tried to go with them. I added some colour to give the image a certain mood, and all in all, I don't even think it's all too bad.

Despite the fact that the creature's anatomy is impossible, I mean.

Flute · **Posted:** September 7th, 2009, 3:46 pm

This looks fantastic Lhune :3 I really like how the monster fades into his surroundings :3 It creates a fantastic atmosphere to the whole piece.

Lhune · **Posted:** September 7th, 2009, 4:13 pm

Thanks Flute! :3

On to the second:

A photograph of the Norwegian 'Jotunheim' was used as a reference, though at some point I took the ref away and started working from the head. It could use more detail and looseness, but I guess it looks okay.

GuardianAngel1 · **Posted:** September 7th, 2009, 5:15 pm

Dadgum I wish I was half as good as you on BG work...

Stormwing · **Posted:** September 8th, 2009, 12:50 am

Jotunheimen! Whee!

No, I like your speedpaintings, Lhune. As Flute said, that monster looks really nice, and it gives atmosphere to let him melt into the background like that.

And even though it's speedpaintings, I think Jotunheimen would look a bit better if some of the lines were crisper. But nice work.

Lhune · **Posted:** September 8th, 2009, 7:44 am

Thanks guys.

You're right about the lines Stormwing, though I tried to keep from nitpicking and detailing the image too much, the snow especially could probably have done with some sharper edges.

Here's another one. The background took me about 40 minutes, the dragon about 5. A reference was obviously used.

Andantonius · **Posted:** September 8th, 2009, 10:22 am

I think these are fantastic, Lhune! Very well done; and great for learning. It's nice to see your skills loosened up a bit; makes for very appealing images.

Though one thought, when you said the snow should have had a hard edge; artistically it's actually better to leave it soft.

Jacked from conceptart.org:

Quote:

In general, edges are:
Harder in the light, softer in the shadow
Harder in bright light, softer in dim light
Harder in focused light, softer in diffused light
Harder in the foreground, softer in the background
Harder on smooth forms, softer on textured forms
Harder on hard forms, softer on soft forms (Duh, but really)
Harder on flat forms, softer on rounded forms
Harder on thin forms, softer on thick forms
Harder on still forms, softer on forms in motion (on moving forms they are harder on the leading edge and softer on the trailing edge)
Harder at the center of interest, softer as you move away

So since your snow looks in decently diffused light, is actually soft, is fairly thick, and in the background; the edge should actually be quite soft.

But yeah. These are great; can't wait to see more! 8D

rufus-dragon0 · **Posted:** September 8th, 2009, 12:26 pm

I wish i could do speedpaints like that...Thier AMAZING!! :eager:

Mith the Myth · **Joined:** August 17th, 2009, 4:09 pm **Posts:** 123

Everyone just has like the same opinion as me... I'm a mass thinker...

They're absolutely great!

Lhune · **Posted:** September 8th, 2009, 3:03 pm

Thanks a lot guys!

Andan: I guess you're right. Though the snow is very hard-edged on the photograph, so I thought that it might look off if I left it so blurry. I'm not going to change it again though 8D.

This isn't so much a speed painting, because it took me 3 hours.

But I still consider it practise in painting, and it spawned from a 'chaos'. It's something I'm practising in doing, and it really helps me out my creativity.

Here are the steps I've taken.

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