Speed Paint Thread! ----show us what you got! 1hr or less

Show us what you can do in an hour or less. All your own work, traditional or digital is fine.

I have been taking a break from painting, but just did a couple of speed paints to get back in the routine. One was about 40 minutes, the dino went beyond a speed paint to a bit over an hour. I may still put a whole background on that one.

No reference for the cat, a cheap rubber toy reference for the dino.

I want to be able to do that....but I really don't understand how :cry:

I want to be able to do that....but I really don't understand how :cry:

You can certainly learn to do it. how quickly depends on how much of a start you already have, how much talent, etc. But most people can learn to draw to a decent level. The key factor is whether you want it enough to work at it.

A few steps.

1. work on your traditional drawing. There is nothing magical about the computer that allows someone who can't draw to suddenly draw. If anything the computer might be a little more difficult to draw on, but makes up for it in its ability to undo mistakes.

here are some drawing lessons I worked up for folks on the board here. They are quite basic, but in working with people locally they did help them to progress.

http://rs_vultures.tripod.com/drawclassosesion1.pdf

they are in pdf format, so you can print it out and draw right on the lessons.

2. If you already have drawing skills, or once you develop them, you will be best served by getting a graphics tablet. There are some folks who can draw quite well with a mouse, but they are rare. Here is the site that makes what most consider to be the best tablets, though there are others:

http://www.wacom.com/index2.cfm

3. Here is a tutorial I did on some of the techniques, though it is now quite old, and I might not do all quite the same. But it gives the basic idea.

http://forum.tip.it/viewtopic.php?t=201522

speed paint.. count me in :P

I will most likely have a ago soon :D

I have a tablet, so once I read those tuts, I'll give it a go :)

:)

dunno if u consider this painting.. but whatever...

Quite odd..

30 mins, painter+tablet.

Right, my hour is up, and I got this (large file even in PNG):

And this is my Ref:

I like the result, so I might get onto the dogs body. Not bad for a first time =)

 

 

 

I like the result, so I might get onto the dogs body. Not bad for a first time =)

Nice work here. Animals are great fun for practice.

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dunno if u consider this painting.. but whatever...

The white portion is certainly painting. You might try a manual gradient next time though just for the practice!

Quite odd..

 

 

 

30 mins, painter+tablet.

Kind of an alien in a pool theme there huh? What painter version?

How'd you mnake those? Painted, brushed, MSpaint, drawing, layering etc.

heres my entry!

Thanks for the advice and links! :)

old sig i made a long time ago :P painted kitten

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Quite odd..

 

 

 

30 mins, painter+tablet.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Kind of an alien in a pool theme there huh? What painter version?

Painter IX.

nice head demented :D

i wish i had a tablet... :(

My avatar took me less than an hour, I should think thats the best I could do at the level I am atm.

Argh, I don't seem to be able to keep them under an hour!

bout an hour and a half here, all corel photopaint. Reference on the flower, none on the rest.

Painter 7 no referencee, opaque brush

(image removed cus I just realised it sux.)

What do we need to paint these?

i did this in 30min...

What do we need to paint these?

See post number 3 in the thread.

liked this one better, im using a crap version of illustrator cus my photoshop cs2 just fecked up.. no special brushes or fully customisable effects so this is the best I can come up with atm.. 30 mins on this one. looking at his hand after a fight.. "was it worth it?"

very blurry cus I was stuck with only 9, 13, 17 and 100 brush sizes :? .. don't ask why..

jwrm thats made in 'ms paint' not what tttia meant by this thread, basically creating digital art that mimics painting in real life. thats sectioned under 'pixel art' :wink: .