I’ve made a lot more progress on this painting today. I was able to get a nice section of the head of the male figure done. I’m not sure if I will be able to work on it again until next Sunday but I’m glad to have continually made progress each week.
Painting
3711: Perseverance – Oil Painting Part 24
The top of the tigers head is done and on the last stream we moved forward quickly on this oil painting by establishing better overall values on the tigers head and getting the muzzle closer to what it needs to be. For this stream I’m going to try and focus on the tiger’s main on either side of the head unless I see something else of higher leverage.
Traditional + Digital Live Stream tiger painting. Watch the full stream!
3710: Perseverance – Oil Painting Part 23
Last stream we worked on the background for this tiger oil painting in an effort to establish some relative color and compare the tiger against it. After changing the background to a cooler color we were able to pop the tiger out from the background even further and make our focal point even more enticing for the eye. This stream we will be working on more details for the tigers head and hopefully moving down to the chin.
Traditional + Digital Live Stream tiger painting. Watch the full stream!
3709: Perseverance – Oil Painting Part 22
I’ve finished most of the top of the head in this tiger oil painting but I need to get a better understanding of the relative color and value of the tiger and how it relates to the background. For this stream I’m going to move back to the background and bring it up to speed as a better comparison to what I have now. With this information it will help me to make better decisions about how I paint the tiger moving forward.
Traditional + Digital Live Stream tiger painting. Watch the full stream!
3708: Perseverance – Oil Painting Part 21
Our tiger oil painting is coming along very slowly now because we are working on the most important part of the painting. The focal point of the tigers head and I want to make sure that the head of the tiger has all the detail and interest to draw the eyes of the viewer before anything else. Once we are past the head the rest of the tiger and background should go faster.
Traditional + Digital Live Stream tiger painting. Watch the full stream!
3707: Perseverance – Oil Painting Part 20
The eyes of the tiger are established in this oil painting and now we are broadening out into the rest of the head of the tiger. I’ll be going over drawing, value, color, saturation, color temperature and everything that has to do with making a successful oil painting in these episodes. Including habits and personal development strategies to get you to the easel more often and keep you painting longer. Join us for the fun!
Traditional + Digital Live Stream tiger painting. Watch the full stream!
3706: Perseverance – Oil Painting Part 19
We are still working on the head of the tiger in this oil painting live stream. The head of the tiger is the focal point for the entire painting and I want it to be where all the detail is in the painting so it draws the eye. The rest of the painting will move along much faster after the head is done.
Traditional + Digital Live Stream tiger painting. Watch the full stream!
3705: Where is My Love – Oil Painting Part 15
This is a secret painting that I started back in December 2022, more than 3 months ago. But I got side tracked with all kinds of other paintings and videos. The original idea was that I paint this entire painting and keep most of it’s progress off of my daily art posts but after reconnecting with the purpose of my website I decided to bring it back. The purpose of my daily posts is to show all artists exactly what it has taken to get a painting from nothing to something amazing. I’ve recorded tons of footage of the making of this painting and I plan on releasing that at some point. Enjoy the progress.
3704: Perseverance – Oil Painting Part 18
The first session of glazing in oil paint was successful! I didn’t get a lot done but I’ve established what I think looks like a wonder right eye for the tiger and I’m even more confident that this painting is going to be a huge success if I continue on.
Traditional + Digital Live Stream tiger painting. Watch the full stream!
3703: Perseverance – Oil Painting Part 17
Traditional + Digital Live Stream tiger painting. Watch the full stream!
We’re done with the first layer on this awesome tiger painting in oil. Now the magic will begin to happen with glazing layers. I’m going to show you have to start glazing an oil painting from beginning to end. Step by step I’ll walk you through how to use the colors underneath and the glazes you will add to enhance your paintings beyond what you thought was possible. With glazes everything is easier and a lot more fun!
3702: Perseverance – Oil Painting Part 16
Traditional + Digital Live Stream tiger painting. Watch the full stream!
3701: Perseverance – Oil Painting Part 15
Traditional + Digital Live Stream tiger painting. Watch the full stream!
3700: Perseverance – Oil Painting Part 14
Traditional + Digital Live Stream tiger painting. Watch the full stream!
3699: Perseverance – Oil Painting Part 13
Traditional + Digital Live Stream tiger painting. Watch the full stream!
3697: Perseverance – Oil Painting Part 12
Traditional + Digital Live Stream tiger painting. Watch the full stream!
3696: Perseverance – Oil Painting Part 11
Traditional + Digital Live Stream tiger painting. Watch the full stream!
3695: Perseverance – Oil Painting Part 10
Traditional + Digital Live Stream tiger painting. Watch the full stream!
3694: Perseverance – Oil Painting Part 9
Traditional + Digital Live Stream tiger painting. Watch the full stream!
3693: Perseverance – Oil Painting Part 8
Traditional + Digital Live Stream tiger painting. Watch the full stream!
3692: Perseverance – Oil Painting Part 7
Traditional + Digital Live Stream tiger painting. Watch the full stream!
3691: Our Epic Landscape Day 6
No Traditional + Digital Live Stream today. Instead I continued working on the next landscape I want to do. This is the last that I will do with the design process document. I’ve worked up the color I want with this painting by using a combination of photo bashing and digital painting.
3690: Perseverance – Oil Painting Part 6
Traditional + Digital Live Stream tiger painting. Watch the full stream!
3689: Perseverance – Oil Painting Part 5
Traditional + Digital Live Stream tiger painting. Watch the full stream!
3684: Our Epic Landscape Day 5
No Traditional + Digital Live Stream today. Instead I continued working on the next landscape I want to do. Get the form drawing for the second composition sketch done. Next will be color.
3683: Our Epic Landscape Day 4
No Traditional + Digital Live Stream today. Instead I continued working on the next landscape I want to do. I was able to complete one of the larger composition sketches.
3682: Perseverance – Painting Part 23
Traditional + Digital Live Stream tiger painting. Watch the full stream!
3681: Perseverance – Painting Part 22
Traditional + Digital Live Stream tiger painting. Watch the full stream!
3680: Perseverance – Painting Part 21
Traditional + Digital Live Stream tiger painting. Watch the full stream!
3679: Perseverance – Painting Part 20
Traditional + Digital Live Stream tiger painting. Watch the full stream!
3678: Perseverance – Painting Part 19
Traditional + Digital Live Stream tiger painting. Watch the full stream!
3677: Perseverance – Painting Part 18
Traditional + Digital Live Stream tiger painting. Watch the full stream!
3676: Perseverance – Painting Part 17
Traditional + Digital Live Stream tiger painting. Watch the full stream!
3675: Our Epic Landscape Day 3
No Traditional + Digital Live Stream today. Instead I continued working on the next landscape I want to do. I finished the last 5 thumbnails and I’ve picked the composition that I absolutely love.
3674: Perseverance – Painting Part 16
Traditional + Digital Live Stream tiger painting. Watch the full stream!
3673: Perseverance – Painting Part 15
Traditional + Digital Live Stream tiger painting. Watch the full stream!
3671: Our Epic Landscape Day 2
No Traditional + Digital Live Stream today. Instead I continued working on the next landscape I want to do. I was able to finish the rest of the first five thumbnails and I’m coming up with some really interesting compositions.
3670: Perseverance – Painting Part 13
On the Traditional + Digital Live Stream today we worked on the background adding some life into it with color. Then I moved on to the top palm frond and got deep into observing the reference image so we could get it to look as natural as possible.
While doing all this I started a new document comparing our current tiger painting with the composition we created weeks ago. I removed all color from the current tiger painting so I could get a better understanding of where to take the values for the foreground and the background.
3669: Perseverance – Painting Part 12
On the Traditional + Digital Live Stream today I worked on a lot of smaller details for the tigers hair and fur. At this point the head is done and I feel I can move on to improving the background.
3668: Perseverance – Painting Part 11
On the Traditional + Digital Live Stream today we worked more on the head. Adding texture, refining the values and lighting up much of the shadow areas.
3667: Perseverance – Painting Part 10
On the Traditional + Digital Live Stream today I started going crazy with texture and having fun with all kinds of brushes and really breathing some life into the head of the tiger. It’s looking fantastic!
3666: Perseverance – Painting Part 9
For the Traditional + Digital Live Stream today I darkened the head up a lot to get a more dramatic look and then began working back into the details. I will bring the light back into the head but it will be more dramatic.
3665: Perseverance – Painting Part 8
For the Traditional + Digital Live Stream today I began changing the structure of the tigers head. The great thing about living with a piece for a while is that you begin to see issue and problems that you never noticed before and you can refine it and make it better. As long as you are brave enough to tear it apart in the process.
3664: Perseverance – Painting Part 7
For the Traditional + Digital Live Stream today I started introducing lots of color and detail to the tiger painting.
3663: Perseverance – Painting Part 6
For the Traditional + Digital Live Stream today I realized that my tiger painting has a major flaw in the color that is making it look like a cartoon. Basically, I’ve painted the background and the tiger with the same hue and only value variation within that hue. Checkout the live stream recording for more.
3661: Perseverance – Painting Part 5
For the Traditional + Digital Live Stream today I started painting the tiger and the first thing I did was setup an idea of where the light is coming from and how that would make the shadows look. Then I began working on some details.
3660: Perseverance – Painting Part 4
For the Traditional + Digital Live Stream today we’ve finished the entire background! I’m super excited to start working on the tiger now.
3659: Full Tiger Painting – Painting Part 3
For the Traditional + Digital Live Stream today we’ve finished the far background for the tiger painting and I’ve started on the very important palm fronds in the foreground.
3658: Full Tiger Painting – Painting Part 2
For the Traditional + Digital Live Stream today we got pretty far into the background by starting on the large trees to the right and left and adding in a lot of texture. A full stream of painting!
3657: Full Tiger Painting – Painting Part 1
For the Traditional + Digital Live Stream today we started painting the background on our digital tiger painting. Lots of green!
3656: Krita Portrait Sketch Part 2
No live stream today. Instead I continued working on this portrait sketch. I was too impatient on during the painting and didn’t finish it completely. I need to adjust my expectations for how long these portrait sketches take.
3650: Tiger Composition Last Step
For the Traditional + Digital Live Stream today we’ve reached the last step in the design process. Creating a palette of colors.
3649: Krita Portrait Sketch
I didn’t have the live stream this morning because I was up super late last night. We went to an art show because I won BEST IN SHOW! I still can’t believe it! You can see the painting that won best in show here. Much thanks to the Graphite Gallery in Edmonds for the Nud Show.
3644: Tiger Thumbnails Process and Ear Painting
For the Traditional to Digital Live Stream today we started creating thumbnails of our ideas after getting clarity from the first part of the design process and I finished the last of the 4 features of the face tutorial painting. Now I just have a TON of editing to do.
3643: Tiger Painting Design Process and Mouth Painting
For the Traditional to Digital Live Stream today we took all our collected images of tigers into my awesome design process Krita document that will almost guarantee a great painting.
3642: Painting Idea Refinement and Mouth Painting
For the Traditional to Digital Live Stream today we started the next step of the painting process because I’ve got my idea! We looked at a lot of sites searching for the best tiger images.
3641: Finding Ideas for Painting and Ear Painting
For the Traditional to Digital Live Stream today I worked on building an idea for my next painting. A rather boring stream but that is part of the art game. Then I painted the last ear for the first layer of my ear tutorial.
3640: Starting a Painting Live Stream and Ear Painting
For the Traditional to Digital Live Stream today we went through all the steps it would take to start a painting and take it from beginning to completion. This is in an effort to begin a painting on the live stream and take it from beginning to end. “Soup to nuts”.
3639: Just Drawing Live Stream
For the Traditional to Digital Live Stream today I continued on the drawing I started from the last stream, got bored, and started another one with a completely different way to draw.
3638: Digital Drawing Accuracy and Ear Painting
For the Traditional to Digital Live Stream today I focused on just drawing and showing anyone who joined some practical ways to measure for drawing accuracy.
3637: Drawing Warmup Live Stream and Ear Painting
For the Traditional to Digital Live Stream today we moved on to drawing! I’ve started us off with the perfect warmup practice to learn any medium, including digital.
3636: Live Stream is Back, and Ear Drawing
For the Traditional to Digital Live Stream today we finished up the last major principle of composition, Unity. Then I worked more on the ear tutorial.
3635: Ear Tutorial Start
I decided to pause the Traditional to Digital Live Stream until Monday the 9th so I could catch up on these tutorial recordings.
3634: Mouth and Nose Tutorial Progress
I decided to pause the Traditional to Digital Live Stream until Monday the 9th so I could catch up on these tutorial recordings.
3633: Live Stream Pause and Mouth Tutorial
I decided to pause the Traditional to Digital Live Stream until Monday the 9th so I could catch up on these tutorial recordings.
3632: Balance in Composition and Mouth Painting
For the Traditional to Digital Live Stream today we started on the next major principle of composition, Balance! Then I continued with the mouth painting tutorial.
3631: Emphasis in Composition Continued and Mouth Painting
For the Traditional to Digital Live Stream today we continued with Emphasis and then I began work on a tutorial for painting the mouth in oil.
3630: Emphasis in Composition and Eye Painting
For the Traditional to Digital Live Stream today we moved on to the next major principle of composition. EMPHASIS! See how I emphasized that word? Haha!
3629: Space Division Continued and More Nose Painting
For the Traditional to Digital Live Stream today I continued with space division because there is so much content here that it took another hour long live stream to finish it off!
3628: Space Division and Nose Painting
For the Traditional to Digital Live Stream today I began with the principles of composition. Specifically dividing space and how we can use the many ways to divide space to tell our stories in paint.
3627: Krita Sketching Brushes and Testing
For the Traditional to Digital Live Stream today I decided to get more organized with this live stream course and create a whole curriculum. This is what I talked about in the live stream.
3626: Krita Sketching Brushes and Testing
For the Traditional to Digital Live Stream today I covered how to import some awesome brushes from David Revoy into Krita and we tested out those brushes on a landscape and a portrait. I also talked a lot more about composition.
3625: Composition Process and Eye Painting
For the Traditional to Digital Live Stream today I covered composition and my super awesome design process document. I also painted three eyes. Look for that course coming soon.
3624: Krita Brush Creation and Eye Drawing
For the Traditional to Digital Live Stream today I covered brush creation in Krita and we tried out those brushes.
3623: Traditional to Digital Live and Eye Painting Prep
Two things today. My Live Stream course has begun. You can watch that here. It’s on going and will build upon itself daily with a ton of great content to help any artists that is interested on how to do digital painting.
You can get all the material downloads for the live stream course here!
Second thing. I started the prep work for a eye painting tutorial that I hope to release soon.
3622: Live Stream Course False Start
Today I started a “course” on my YouTube live stream. I want to teach artists about Krita and digital painting. Specifically I want to teach traditional artists the advantage of digital. So I started a live stream all about it. But I ended up getting more organized for it tomorrow. The real start was tomorrow.
You can watch the live stream here.
3621: Christmas Morning Perspective Study
Originally this was supposed to be a shorter stream but Thinker888 proposed a wonderful idea of how to find the horizon line for this masterful painting by Albert Bierstadt. That sent me down a perspective learning path that took over an hour! It was fantastic.
You can watch the live stream here.
3615: Learning Clouds Day 1
I was so fed up with those clouds that I committed to some time of just learning to painting clouds. Today I used an image from Pexels.com and the 2 point perspective tool in Krita to get a deep understanding of the form of clouds and how they move in space.
You can watch the live stream here.
3614: Epic Journey V1 Day 12
During the live stream today I expressed my dislike for the clouds I had in this painting and begin doing them over. Then I showed off some brushes I created in Krita. Then I did an in depth critique of painting by Thinker888 that joins the stream every day. Very fun live stream!
You can watch the live stream here.
3613: Epic Journey V1 Day 11
I’ve basically started over on this painting. I realized that I was getting way too detailed with the mountain and I had lost sight of the greater composition. I painted over the whole thing with very broad strokes and made sure that I got the full coloration that I wanted. I’m super happy with the change.
You can watch me work on this painting during my live stream.
3612: Epic Journey V1 Day 10
Not much change in this painting today. Through the entire live stream I was showing how to customize brushes in Krita. Watch the live stream for how to do that.
You can watch me work on this painting during my live stream.
3611: Epic Journey V1 Day 9
I started working on the clouds again in the live stream and no matter what I do for these clouds its just not working.
You can watch me work on this painting during my live stream.
3610: Epic Journey V1 Day 8
The strategy of working the color in this painting similar to how I do oil painting is working. It’s still not to the level I would like but that is going to take time. Also, understanding that this painting could take the same amount of time as an oil painting is helping as well. I’m sure in the future I will speed up but I need to learn first.
You can watch me work on this painting during my life stream.
3609: Epic Journey V1 Day 7
I’m not familiar with coloring digitally so I’m struggling with this painting right now. I think part of the reason is because I expect it to go much faster than oil painting. Next session I’m going to work the color in this painting like I would in an oil painting.
You can watch me work on this painting during my life stream.
3608: Epic Journey V1 Day 6
During this painting session I got all the values placed and started putting in some color.
You can watch me work on this painting during my life stream.
3607: Epic Journey V1 Day 5
I started working up the values for this entire painting. I began with the foreground and started working my way back into the distance making each value lighter as I go.
You can watch me work on this painting during my life stream.
3606: Epic Journey V1 Day 4
The drawing is finished for this painting and next I’m going to start working up the values.
You can watch me work on this painting during my life stream.
3605: Epic Journey V1 Day 3
Today I finished off the middle ground where the mountain meets the lake and I started working on the cliffs and rocks on the right side.
You can watch me work on this painting during my life stream.
3604: Epic Journey V1 Day 2
Yesterday was spent working on the cliff and rocks in the foreground. Today I moved to the far background and sky.
You can watch me work on this painting during my life stream.
3603: Epic Journey V1 Day 1
I’ve started this painting over. I realized that I made one of the oldest mistakes. I didn’t draw out the entire painting first. Because of this I lacked a deep understanding of the form for this complex subject. And without that understand I can’t light and color it properly.
Because I’m starting over I decided to commit to this painting for the long haul and take it to a finish digitally and eventually on to the canvas for oil.
You can watch me work on this painting during my life stream.
3602: Environmental Design Study Day 14
I got DEEP into the study of atmospheric perspective with my live stream today. I learned a ton about what it takes to make mountains look like they recede into the distance. With the help of some amazing painting by Albert Bierstadt my understanding of atmospheric perspective has increased tremendously!
3601: Environmental Design Study Day 13
With my live stream today I started working on the sky behind the mountain. I don’t feel like it has the epic distance that I want. The mountain looks too close to the foreground so I’m playing with different configurations in the sky to try and get it to look as if it’s really far away.
Unfortunately I don’t think I was successful, but I did find a really nice brush for clouds.
3600: Environmental Design Study Day 12
I had a wonderful time today. I did my very first live stream on YouTube while working on this painting. I’m having a lot of trouble understanding how light would play over the mountain so I did a live stream about the form study.
Even more awesome, is the fact that I’ve hit 3600 days of consecutive art! Only 50 more days left until I hit 10 years straight!!!!!!
3599: Environmental Design Study Day 11
I decided to take the value study of this painting and add color to it. I suck at painting with color digitally right now so I’m training two skills at once. Win WIN!
3598: Environmental Design Study Day 10
Two digital paintings today. One is a study from Jakub Kozlowski and the other from Albert Bierstadt.
3597: Environmental Design Study Day 9
This is a digital painting study of a painting by Albert Bierstadt. I wanted to capture the epic nature of the space and how tiny the people were as compared to the rest of the landscape while keeping it dark and high contract. I think the high contrast flattened it out too much though. I’ve lost the depth and the epic nature.
3596: Environmental Design Study Day 8
I loved the simplicity and dept of this digital painting by Jakub Kozlowski and I wanted to study how to get that kind of depth with nothing but three values and no shading.
3595: Environmental Design Study Day 7
This value study was heavily influenced by a painting from Albert Bierstadt.
3594: Environmental Design Study Day 6
I did this value study from a combination of multiple influences on Artstation.
3593: Environmental Design Study Day 5
This is a study from a painting by Ismail Inceoglu on Artstation.
3592: Environmental Design Study Day 4
This exercise is a ton of fun and easy to get into. Plus it doesn’t take a lot of time. It would be a nice addition to my list of over 100 ideas for daily art.
3591: Environmental Design Study Day 3
Same method. Simplifying compositions down to their most essential elements. But this time I’m using movies as inspiration.
3590: Environmental Design Study Day 2
For the next few days I’m going to be studying painting that I love and simplifying them down to just three values. I’m learning how to simplify a composition down to it’s most simple form so that it can “read” well.
3589: Starry Night Day 29
This painting might be finished. I’m not totally sure. I’m going to let it dry for a bit, live with it for some time, then see if I add something.
3588: Starry Night Day 28 and Life Drawing
First thing in a morning I got to work blocking in the silhouette for my Starry Night painting. Then later in the day I went to the Tacoma Life Drawing group and had a great time. A full day of art!
3587: Starry Night Day 27
I’m working on drawing out the silhouette of the foreground elements which are super important for this painting so I’m taking my time and doing it right. I don’t want to have to try and repaint the background around the silhouette.
3586: Standing on the Edge of the World Day 7
Still working on the background and losing interest in this painting fast.
3585: Standing on the Edge of the World Day 6
The rocks on the right side are done and this photo of the painting is absolutely terrible. You can’t see the detail in the rocks at all. I’ll do better tomorrow.
3584: Standing on the Edge of the World Day 5
I needed to get a better understanding of the rocks and mountains in the background so I spent an hour and a half drawing it all out again. I also used my camera to take an HDR photo of the painting to try and get it to look like the original painting but it didn’t go well.
3582: Standing on the Edge of the World Day 4
I’ve come back to this painting. After almost a month it is finally dry. I worked hard on getting the perfect glow of the star in the background. Although the image is not able to capture it well.
3581: Epic Journey V1 Day 2
I spent more time adjusting the drawing for Epic Journey V1 today and focusing more on the rule of thirds. Then I began adding in the broad value areas. After that I realized that I had no idea what to do next so I continued working on environmental design study.
3580: Epic Journey V1 Day 1
When you’re unmotivated the last thing you want to do is push yourself to do something you “should” do. Instead do something that is super fun. This is what I did.
Instead of pushing myself to get back to work on my Starry Night painting I changed to something else I’m a bit more excited about right now. A new series called Epic Journey. Well, I hope it continues to be a series.
3579: The Storm Was Getting Much Worse
I’m not sure what happened this weekend but I’ve completely lost my motivation. I’ve been doing daily art for so long now that it’s not new, it happens. I still got in hours of art time today.
I lowered my criteria for success today by doing something different and easier to accomplish. I signed up for a course on SVSlearn.com called Developing Great Visual Stories. This is the first and second assignment form that course.
3578: Starry Night Day 26
There are a whole bunch of foreground elements that are silhouetted at the bottom that I need to draw back into the painting. I’ve started drawing them in digitally first then I’m going to compare this image with the painting and transfer by hand.