Hero Triptych finished, New brushes testing

Greetings everyone!

I've had a long holiday so I've been able to get a lot of things worked on for paintings. Here's the final version of three heroes.

At the same time, I was searching for other brushes to use in photoshop. In time I'll probably make more of my own, but being I'm working on a new version (since late 2014) of Photoshop than I used before and a new computer, I didn't have my old brushes saved. Starting over, I decided to just download some free ones. I've been testing some of them out. Here's a test painting of a bat, using a couple of them. The bat in my photo reference is hanging from a cage above him, but I left that part out.

Until next time!

- Alexander

Christmas Painting, full quality

Greetings to everyone watching, reading and viewing my blog.

I wasn't aware that the quality of the video would be downsized when uploading it to the blog. (My first blog video post). Anywho, here's the full quality photo of the finished painting, without the progress shots. There was also a section that got cut off in the video production thing. Maybe I'll look into better video software than the Windows Movie Maker.

Thanks for stopping by. Until next time!
- Alexander

Merry Christmas to those who celebrate!

Greetings!

Now, I don't normally do this kind of thing (holiday paintings), but I guess this year ended up being kinda special in that sense. Please enjoy this video of still photo progress of a painting I was working on, ending with the final result.

Until next time.
Enjoy your holiday!

New Shade, New painting

Greetings!

I don't know about any of you other painters out there, but sometimes I have to focus on a few different paintings/sketches to stay focused on longer pieces with lots of detail. That's what I've been doing while painting this Fantasy cave painting. I've made some progress, see below

but I've also started some other projects. I started to re-do a bunch of comic style heroes that I had ideas for back in high school. But now that I can paint better, I decided to revamp them in my modern style(s). Here's a couple character designs I've completed.

And here, a triptych of 3 heroes that I'm still in progress with.

Ok, well that's all for now.

Thanks for stopping by. Until next time!

- Alex D.

Bear in a cave ... prt 3.

I finally sat down and had another moment to focus and forget about life for a bit. That's called painting. Worked on the foreground rocks a bit. Brought some life to them now. And as I would hope is apparent ....

My FIGURE has started to take life. There's too much yellow tho. It's what I used for line work when putting details onto him. I'll be working on putting that into the correct shade for a while.

Until next time.

The Bear cave of wonders - progress

Greetings everyone.

The title is of course unofficial. I've taken the background a bit further over the past 2 nights. Added textures and did a foundation painting on most of the background (still need to get to the ground eventually). I'll keep pushing this one. I'm liking the feel of it. And it's been a long time since I felt a painting, so it's good progress.

Have a look.

As you can see, most of it is still very fuzzy with the highlights. Still in the under-painting phase.

Thanks for tuning in.
Until next time.
-Alex

Oops. Mix up with accounts

Hello everyone.

Apparently there was some kind of mix up with my old blogging account. I can't get into it anymore. :( Just for reference here's the old link , http://alexdibble.blogspot.sg/

Well, I bought a new drawing tablet for those who don't know. Just recently, too. I started sketching again a few days ago. Anyway, here's a painting I've gotten started on.

More progress will be posted when I get around to it.
Thanks for tuning in.
-Alexander