Master Study - Velazquez

I decided to paint more studies after the masters.
This is a 4+ hours study of "Portrait of Innocent X" by Diego Velazquez. There was a lot to learn here.

Landscape Study

My speed paintings for today (2 hours on each, photo study).  

Mountain Lake reference source
Waterfall reference source

School Project - Refugee 3014

Meet refugee Veluthu, the "Slippery Salmon". It was hard to choose an alien race but I decided he should look like a "generic good guy" and also somewhat cocky.

After his home planet was destroyed, he was detained at the prison facility on  Smawa Theta 11. Prison rulings allows bionic parts as long as they are non-offensive and for prostetic purposes. The cuffs are "ancient technology", but still contain a tracker and have a remote-controlled blow-up feature.

Sea Giant

I miss my years growing up in a town by the seaside. Well, we did not have sea giants, nor did we really needed some.

And here is a close-up of the big fella.

Dark Fantasy Project #3

Another update. This time it's the witch and her decaying butler, the "arisen".

 

Dark Fantasy Project #2

Savages!

Here's some more concepts for the boardgame project, the chieftain, the generic warrior and the "brute".

My take on the brute was basically the no brain, lots of muscle stereotype. Story-wise it's a cross-species hybrid between the native savages and the dreaded Sefaros (huge firebreathing bears). It's not like they're unpopular with the ladies, but just like the lonely sheep herder on the mountains does it, these are the urges of the primitive man haha.

Sphinx 2012

Since one of my favourite creatures of myth is the sphinx, I have decided to paint one every year, starting with this one, obviously.

Rooster Study

Photo study about 2 hours.

Rooster reference source

Dark Fantasy Project #1

This couple of weeks I have been working on a dark fantasy themed board game with some friends. It won't be published, we are just doing this for ourselves.

My task has been taking care of the concepts of various creatures and beings living on the island where the action of the game takes place. Until now I've taken care of the "Mosoris" mole-people, a neutral but mostly peaceful race and the notorious "Oldchildren", venerated by the colonists that came to the island for their unique mental abilities.

I will post more as soon as they are done.

School Work #2 (Museum of Natural History)

We've been for a month of practice, working at Grigore Antipa, the museum of natural history in Bucharest.

I've done some studies on taxidermied animals, so here are some of them.

School Work #1

Welcome!

First of all, this blog is going to be all about me putting a little party coif on my head.

Here are some of the watercolor/ liner /mixed things I done in my first year at UNArte Bucharest.