Colour Study

A colour study I did, referencing a gorgeous photo taken from isayx3's flickr album (photography & post processing eyecandy!).

Feel very rusty after not having been painting for a long long time, and I feel I'm still only scratching the surface of colour.

My biggest issue that I'm noticing with my paintings is that I'm having problems "finishing" my paintings. It's probably down to a lack of patience and a lack of practice and experimentation, but I find I just don't know where to start or stop. My paintings always look sort of rough and unfinished, or I just go over the edge and everything looks over-done and over-refined. I'm aiming for that finish where the paintings look nicely sharp and polished, but when you look closer you notice a lot of the rough, dynamic lively brushwork is still there....

Any crit or advice on how to achieve that finished balance would be much appreciated... ;__;

Hair rambling

Haven't touched painting in awhile, so after finishing work early today I sat at my workstation just sort of painting aimlessly. This is what's come out so far... (about 45 minutes of noodling).

Not sure where I'm going with this, or what colour scheme I want to.... it was kind of relaxing to just sit there painting with no purpose or no goal in mind. I think this is the first time I've done that, so it is quite refreshing to just paint blobs of colours and shapes, and repaint over it when I changed my mind.

This is unflipped and unchecked, so excuse any wonk. :D

Leftenstar and the spade

Wow! I've really enjoyed having some fun with photoshop today after a long dry spell ^^ This is some fanart for a friend's story. I just love this scene! http://neelachips.deviantart.com/#/d2r6k1c

I was having fun messing around with a more painterly approach, as well as my usual cel shading attempts. I wanted to give the impression of a slightly dream-like space, with a mad swarm of toothed creatures. It was also an exercise in dynamic poses and folds... it's not dead on but I had fun :D