santa baby? It's a month or so behind the news but here is my christmas bonus

editorial image.... party on wane.

Current piece I'm working on.
Keep posting people!

Catch

Hey Guys. Do any of you know any good scripts for elarging or enabling the scaling of images on a website.?? A couple of my friends that run high rez monitors say that my .jpgs come up pretty small from my website? any suggestions? I dont really want to just put up huge images incase people with monitors like mine try and view it. Check it out. :)

Finished the painting. Was going to say that it's out of my hands but the guy called back saying that it doesn't look like his brother so I'll be changing his face after the new year. Oh well. Grr... I need to learn to be ruthless about pricing.

More of the same, think im gradually getting there.

TB

Hey guys,

Been a bit lazy, haven't done too much work, but I plan on changing that soon enough.

Just a few studies for tonight. The city was from a screen cap from 28 weeks later, had some fairly extreme lens curve on it from the camera, which I know I screwed up badly, but I was looking more at the tones so I left it. Mountains were an indulgence and the underpass I did in about 10 minutes out of my head, and I think it will turn into my next proper painting. It'll probably have zombies in it, they seem to be my new thing.

So yeh, comment away and keep putting up stuff.

EDIT: Here's some progress

Moar stuff

TB

Having lots of problems with this painting. I was given a low resolution photo which is severely pixelated. The colours are a little flat. Finally I resulted to taking my own lighting references and going to try that out tonight. If you guys can comment or provide any advice, I'll really appreciate that.

more old man stuff. Thanks for the comments Tyler. Keep it up!

more

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Whats up guys.

Made this tonight, for no reason other than I couldn't think of anything better to do.

More stuff

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Zorn copy and a landscape.

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Simon Scales Illustration Workshop

Hey Everyone

Hope your all enjoying your holidays/end of uni :)

Just incase you haven't checked your uni email, or were not at my presentation,
a little reminder that I am running a illustration/concept design workshop over Jan/Feb 2009. Basically this will be a workshop for people of any skill level to learn a whole heap of principles that I learnt on a recent 4 month trip where I attended the Concept Design Academy in LA. (Amazing place!) I will be showing demonstrations and techniques from really beginner techniques to advanced ones and they will be mainly in photoshop - but also sketching and marker rendering too . So it would be a really great chance to build on your portfolios with some fun briefs to work from. So if anyone is interested then hit me up with an email.
For more information about the course goto
http://www.simonscales.com.au/workshop
you can download a registration form there
or email me at simon@simonscales.com.au
my blog link is
http://www.simon-scales.blogspot.com/

faces no ref.

TB

New enviro, from my head but inspired
by whit argh i hate him.

TB

Ned Paintover

Hey Ned

hope you dont mind mate but i did a little paintover of your image

took me about 15 mins

but what i wanted to show you guys is how to think about your composition

i saw your value study and thought that was working better than your color version

cos i think you overlooked some things from your value study - but with a few small tweaks you can fix it up.

so in the paintover i have really focused your composition - get rid of that rock thinggy thats being held up by a matchstick piece of rock - thats not gonna happen :) even tho its fantasy stuff you need to think conceptually if things actually work - if they dont the viewer will just dismiss the piece in seconds!!

so i tried to ground that rocky mass on the right with the palm trees

then on the left balanced out that composition and played with the scale by adding a big palm tree - straight away the viewer now relates the other palm trees as being pretty big - espically with the little guy down the bottom for scale also - you had him in your rough!! :) get him back in there

then just really focused on the shapes that all your background elements were creating - really think about where your eye is going when you do this and then think about value and then think about scale.

your palm trees are a great reference point - so ride them all the way to the bank

last of all i put a bit of a jetty and some lights - maybe some buildings :)

just to relate it back to the human/creature at the foreground - its just a little trick to give a bit of life to your piccy

ok...enough rambling - i hope this helps guys

keep on painting!!!

old man character design... . he's old.. .

Here's a cloud study from my head
Keep posting :D

TB

Some stuff some enviros
and a Bougoureau (SP?) copy

TB

Two more pieces for the market stall. These ones still need the tattoos and glazes. I think there's something wrong with the face in the second one so any comments will help. The photo I'm working from is really poor quality so it's a bit difficult. Cheers

Hey guys,
Here's the start of a new piece. Going to try and keep a fairly good process record of this one so I can figure out a better method of working, so I'll post bits as it develops.

UPDATE:
So I struggled with the values a bit, then put some colour over it and kept trying to get the values right. It seems to be coming together a bit better now. I might change the composition a little, see how that goes.

AND ANOTHER UPDATE:
I might leave this one as it is for now, otherwise I'll just confuse myself. Just kept laying texture over the top. Most of the changes I want to make from this point all seem to go back to me not fixing the composition in the beginning, and I don't think I want to start screwing around with that at the moment.

Another BW tone study for tonight. Just trying to eyeball the values without cheating to much.

Yah... SO not being slack. This is just one of a few pieces I'm doing for a market stall that's in two weeks.. GAAAWD. They're all just gonna be really quick and really small studies (15cmx15cm). I don't think I'm done with this one yet tho, I think I'm gonna put a couple of glazes and stuff over the tattoo.