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This is my first speed painting. First time I've used just a hard brush it took me about 55 minutes. Referenced a picture of comic great Jack Kirby in his younger years. I'm going to try and do at least one of these every day. I want to improve at the fastest rate possible.

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One every day. That sounds as if you should be Questing for the Dragon Scroll, Evil. Why don't you post these at the Daily as well.

It's certainly not easy painting solely with a hard brush and your first attempt is a sterling effort. If you keep it up, even in a few weeks you'll notice a huge difference. Good stuff.

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This is my second speed paint 30 minutes in Photoshop CS3. Decided to not use painter for now and just concentrate with Photoshop. Women are not my best subjects but I think you can at least tell that she is a female.

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Careful with the dodge/burn tool

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*Wah, I`m just doing my nails and saying stupid things...

This is my third speed painting.....or as I like to call it the royal pain in the butt. Having a hard time painting without any outlines. But I will learn if it drives me crazy and I end up in a rubber room.

55 minutes Photoshop CS3

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WIP_2 for the current rebels challenge

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Speed paint 45 minutes Photoshop CS3.

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Latest WIP for the rebels challenge. Added a little color. Some people you should do the whole painting in grey scale first and others say to add color as soon as possible. Not sure whos right I kind of did both on this took grey scale just up to a certain point then added some color. I think it is coming along OK I still have tons of work to do on it and not much time. Maybe I'll finish who knows.

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Here's another WIP for my rebels challenge entry.

I think I'm getting it down now. I started using a soft brush to blend everything and then start to go back over it with a modified hard round and pull out the details. Those speed paints as crappy as they look are really helping me with finding form in my figures.

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Finished Rebels challenge piece about 24 hours into this one. The best piece I've done so far. I'm happly with it I can see my improvement and I started to understand lighting a little better thanks to the crits I got on this one.

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Weekly challenge piece. I like it. It feels like an old story book illustration to me. Not that I was going for that just how it turned out. I sure wish I'd find a style all my paintings look different.

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Evil Robot:

Finished Rebels challenge piece about 24 hours into this one. The best piece I've done so far. I'm happly with it I can see my improvement and I started to understand lighting a little better thanks to the crits I got on this one.

Good to know you are so happy with your progress.

To me, this piece has a lot of energy. This male royalty-figure has a very feminine quality - the way he holds his hands close to chest, the seductive look in his eyes, his big, red flamboyant lips and the little shirt he has on.

I do think you are getting a little too carried away with the form and lighting business, and the volumetric effect is being abused all over. The chainmail and his gauntlets look fantastic with this effect, but his muscles all look quite like tumors. The best way to avoid this would be taking the light source into consideration, and make sure you look at his body as one thing when you apply light, instead of doing them section by section.

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Yian 2012

Yian- Thanks for the comments and crits they were very helpful. I've drawn cartoons so long that its hard to shift over to the more realistic style. Just need a ton more practice.

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always keep an eye on your proportions and the anatomy Robot. your latest image there is looking really good but when I look back a bit at your other one he's got so many bubbly muscles that they look just like that, bubbles under his skin.

but your newest one is looking really good. proportions seem to be in line and thought the poses are somewhat rigid, it kind of fits in with the styles of those kinds of images. nicely done so far and the colours look nice as well. 

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