2013-03-07 The rate of updates on this blog is TOO DAMN LOW!

  Hi! How's everybody doing? Good? Glad to hear it!
Since I haven't been able to post anything recently due to NDA's among other things, I figure that the least I can do is give you some quick sketches from the last couple of weeks.

  Note that these were pretty quick work. The new thing about these, at least for me, is that my regular workflow consists of first making a values-only version of the image (that is to say, I make a black and white picture), which I then paint over. For these, I went straight into color, which was a bit daunting. They are what they are, but I thought at least I'd share. Not least because it makes a nice departure from my normal compulsion to sit and detail things ad nauseum.

T-Shirts?!

Yep!
T-Shirts indeed. I caved and opened up a shop over at http://metalmcbiff.spreadshirt.net. There's not a lot there at the moment, but if I sell a couple of shirts, they'll open up more room for me to submit designs to.
Anyway, thank you guys so much for convincing me to take this step. It remains to be seen that it'll actually generate a single dime for me, but it's certainly feeling like a step in the right direction regardless!

Here's a little sneak peek :o

Oh me oh my

I have some projects in the pipeline right now that I may not be able to share for a little while, but at least I made another painting... FOR YOU!

His name is Nikita, and he enjoys oral hygiene, long walks on the beach and crushing capitalism.

- Johan

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Man, it's almost the end of January already! That's crazy. Well, I've been working on the ipod/ipad games I believe I've previously mentioned. In doing so, I've also neglected painting for my own amusement. This became painfully obvious as I set about making this particular image. I don't think I've ever feelt so inadequate while painting as when I made this one. I think the result isn't too bad, but good Lord was it ever an exercise in frustration!
Crits and comments are welcome as always.

All the love in the world,

-Johan

A quick holiday update!

The original Grinch wishes you all a happy new year. RULE BRITANNIA!

Oh, also, I have been looking into turning some of these paintings into T-Shirts, as well as future more T-shirt specific designs. Is that something anyone'd be interested in?

Let's head south!

Two zombies from this week. You guess who they're supposed to be! 

^ I don't know why the above image gets so deformed in previews, but if you click it you should get a non-squashed version!

That's all for this week, folks! Hyuk!

-Johan

Two more fellows.

I don't actually have that much to say about these paintings! I'm very pleased with how Nixon turned out. The cerebral zombie. Anyway, that's it for this week I believe!

Nothing but love!

-Johan

WHERE ARE THEY ALL COMING FROM?!

SEND HELP!!

Alright. Zombie-Time!

The G. W. Bush painting I made last week got some pretty good responses here and there on the web, so I decided to make some more (un)dead presidents (they could totally form a band now!).

LET'S GO! Crits and comments are more than welcome as always. These are not dated, in the sense that I've worked on some of them on and off during the week. They're thus posted in order of completion, rather than when they were started.

Bill.

Ronald.

George.

That's all for this week! Hope you guys dig 'em :o

-Johan

Bush zombie, redux.

Had a bit of time over today and figured - why not - Let's put some color on that zombie president!

Quickie update.

This week sees the release of Call of Duty: Black Ops. Consequently I don't know exactly how much I'll be painting!
Still, a certain mr. Mike Mitchell said that I ought to do something more with my images, rather than just do value study after value study. He gave me a whole slew of ideas, the most notable one being ZOMBIE-FYING the portraits. Thus a 90 minute quickie on my part today that I'll probably add color to at some point;

xoxoxo

- Johan

Paint paint. Herp Derp.

Right, lots of stuff happened this week, but here's some paintings!

110 minutes on November 3rd

120 minutes on November 4th

Commission piece painted in about 300 minutes on November 5th-6th.

That's it! Mwaah!

-Johan

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Aaaand some more STUFFS! I had a lot of trouble with these, in all honesty! Tilted head plus light values does not a sense make in my head. Then again I don't really sketch these out with any kind of understructure but instead go straight to painting. I imagine I could've shaved quite a substantial amount of time off of these, had I actually made the appropriate effort and done some sort of basic guidelines for the facial features first. Instead it was lasso tool bonanza towards the end :o

120 minutes on october 26th

120 minutes on October 27th

And that's actually it for this week. Got a bunch of stuff to do for the weekend as well as some doggy-sitting and other things that I'm sure interest you very very much.

Anyway, as always, thank you for looking!

-Johan

Quick update

I don't know that I'll have time to paint much this week so I figured I may as well throw you an update right... NOW! Yippie, eh? This one took 150 minutes on October 19th. It has some issues that I'm not quite happy with, but overall I think it's done in a style that I could get quite comfortable with and think people might enjoy looking at!

All the best!
-Johan

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Righto! Back in the saddle! Let's DO THIS!!

Painted in 105 minutes on October 11th.

Painted in 55(!) minutes on October 12th.

Painted in 60 minutes on October 13th.

Painted in 100 minutes on October 14th.

That's right, no colors this week :o

I had a blast trying to figure out different ways of painting these though and I'd like to think I learned a thing or two along the way. Thanks, as always, for looking!

-Johan

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See? The calendar goes LOLOOL.

Anyway, slow week painting-wise on this end. Had a lot of trouble with some things. I suspect I may be overcomplicating things.

Painted in 110 minutes on September 27th

Painted in 120 minutes on September 28th

Painted in 120 minutes on September 29th



That's it for this time :o

-Johan

Then paint some more after that.

Right! Another week has passed and that means... MORE PAINTINGS. Down to four a week now (meaning one a day Mon through Thu), but I still feel like I'm making decent headway.

Painted on September 20th in 120 minutes.

Painted on September 21st in 110 minutes. He's just got the most adorable expression! Who's a widdle woosigoosi frog, den? Who's a widdle woosi oh God it's poisonous.

Painted on September 22nd in 60 minutes (I was very short on time, clearly).

Painted on September 23rd in 90 minutes. Some sloppiness on the tail feathers in particular but I think it gets the point across fairly well.

Aaaand Dee-du-du-dee-dudu-dee Dat's All, Folks!

Well, for this week, at least.

-Johan

Paint more.

So yeah. Only four paintings this week, one of which turned out quite poorly much to my chagrin. Still, I'll put it here as it IS one of many speedpaintings/studies, and thus qualifies for the blog. I also experimented a bit with a new approach to color this week. The overall results are, I think, quite pleasant -- With that one nagging exception!

Painted on September 13th in 60 minutes. Actually rather pleased with this one!

Painted on September 14th in 60 minutes. This one made me happy as well. Surely nothing can go wrong?!

Painted on September 15th in 150 minutes. FFFFUUUUUUUU--

Painted on September 16th in 120 minutes. Not unhappy with this one. Still need to get used to the new color approach though. Figure out what I did differently at the start of the week, kind of thing.

Right, that's all for this week! XOXOXO and that.

-Johan

Untz untz let's paint more landscapes!

Another week has gone by, well mostly at least - I'll be busy this weekend with a SECRET(!). The good news, if you can call them that, is that the update is a day early! Yay.
So;

60 minutes on September 7th

90 minutes on September 8th

80 minutes on September 9th

85 minutes on September 10th.

That's all I got this week, folks. Have a great weekend! 

-Johan

Another week... That means more paintings!

Right! Well, might as well get to it. Trying to wrap my head around environments now. They require a completely different approach than portraits, but the goal for me is, to keep things moving along in the same direction, to get a sense of the values involved. Pju, pju.

Painted on September 1st in 90 minutes. First landscape in a long time!

September 2nd. Again 90 minutes.

September 3rd. 75 minutes! Ooooh, fighting the clock :o

September 5th - 45 minutes. I'm surprised it looked like anything much at all after that little time, but I had to run some errands so it had to be called finished regardless!

Another quickie! An hour on this one, also from September 5th. Phew. Now I believe it's time to start cooking!

-Johan