bank holiday fun

awilson · bank holiday fun

managed to have a doodle today - not sure whats going on, but it's the taking part that counts.

might get round to colourising it at some point hopefully...

also managed to get out to the peak district - hopefully i'll some time to "develop" a few more pics soon

http://www.flickr.com/photos/aidanwilson/

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more wip

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tried a quick colour pass - not sure where i'm going at all...

mya

Very nice Aidan - great linework!

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i ACTUALLY finished something. yay for me i guess!

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started working on a sketchbook doodle today too.

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and this is as far as i got today - finished?

mya

More nice work Aidan - I like the treeman a lot, really nice tonal work on his body (although I think you might have pushed the highlights just a bit too far in the second one). Great details as well.

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i made use of my (purple) spare room and started doing my first still life in about 15 years

hoping to eventually tackle this sort of thing with ACTUAL PAINT at some stage, but baby steps first...

mya

Still life looks good so far Aidan - the treeman looks pretty spot-on now.

awilson

so i worked up one of the thumbnails from the boudica thread and here she is!

mya

v. nice work Aidan (though a bit big) - it's got a bit of a Simon Bisley feel to it.

cakeypigdog

good boy aidan!

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cheers chaps!

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a few more photos added to my flickr tonight - sorting through the amount of shite i snap is a job for a better man than me...

http://www.flickr.com/photos/aidanwilson/sets/72157616616267801/

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another sketchbook scribble taken into photoshop and given a tidy up

almost finished, but technically still a WIP

bennewman

nice!
zombie earthworm jim.

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ahhh earthworm jim....that takes me back!

mya

Excellent!

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so here's where i'm at with the "performer"

might do something to the background IF ONLY I CAN THINK OF SOMETHING

mya

Looking good - how about an enormous, hellish amplifier in the background?

bennewman

or a legion of undead souls rocking out?

awilson

thanks for the suggestions - i'll see if i have the time or motivation to do them, or maybe i'll just move on to the next piece...decisions, decisions.

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went back and added to some pigment to the wormheaded fella

colour - a right pain in the arse

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just found this on a polycount thread

awesome free fully 3d skeleton viewer with annotations and all sorts

check it!

http://www.nextd.com/bonelab.asp

(run it, click and expand the "VIEWS" tab to cycle through loads of presets if you cant find what youre looking for)

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latest update from the "twins" speedpaint thread

and some stuff from my sketchbook - theres a few in here i'd like to work up into more finished pieces at some stage...

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so i reckon this might well be done...

dandyevans

That's super cool aidan!

cakeypigdog

good lad aidan, really impressive improvement!

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latest wippage - nothing better than shutting the curtains and working on a computer on the sunniest day of the year...er, hang on, DOH

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me again

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don't know if this will go any further - just some quick and mindless photoshopery

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colour study for next pic (maybe)

shame only me and mebingo aka tony jackson know how utterly awesome BREAKING BAD is...

bennewman

that b+w one's really nice- i like how you're playing with the space/scale.

mya

More nice work Aidan - I like the head-eyes dude a lot, the colours feel like they sit together nicely.

dandyevans

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dandyevans

yeah he's pretty cool if a bit fiddly at times, plus I've just noticed he bears a passing resemblence to our own Mr Newman...

spooky!

bennewman

my eyes aren't as red as that.

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first one i've done in a while without a greyscale pass first - i tried to do the whole thing in colour from the get go.

the colour study helped A LOT, but it was still pretty difficult.

There's already some things i'd like to go back and fix, but feck it, life's too short...NEXT

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and another...

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ALMOST on the final stretch...

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FINITO!

mya

Another good one Aidan! If I was to crit it, I'd say that it seems to work a bit better when the background's a bit darker, like the second image.

Do some more! - Your style's really coming on, and the pastelly colour schemes are working nicely.

awilson

cheers for the feedback - yeah, i see what you mean about the background. Luckily everything is on layers so i can change it pretty easily.

i've got a few more ideas in the pipeline, but due to familial commitments my normal weekend drawing routine is due to be disrupted.

Still i guess its good to get out every now and again...like, once or twice a year.

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its funny how your mind wanders when you're in traffic...well, this is the result. no real explanation other than that! might paint it up sometime...

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spent tonight tidying up the linework in readiness for some full on colouring in action. - heres a mini-colour study i did as well, so in theory it should end looking SOMETHING like this...

cakeypigdog

good work old man! lloking forward to saturday!

awilson

so i've seen some of the stuff that gets into imaginefx mag from their forum, and thought - i reckon i could have a go at that! so i went over there and partook in one of their weekly sketch challenges.

i didnt have loads of time on this, so no colour as of yet - it'll probably get that and a few bits of tidying up....someday.

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despite hitting a brick wall with this picture last night, i tried again this evening and started making some headway

i reckon its about 50% done - hope to finish it this weekend!

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kind of nearly sort of finishing up...

i think the face area has resolved itself fine

but theres a few bits such as the arms/hands/feet

that are still bugging me. I kind of went in without an idea of how to resolve them and having got this far theyve not magically sorted themselves out

painted myself into the proverbial corner - so might leave this one for a bit and come back with some fresher eyes later.

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another quickie edit

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the mad gasser of mattoon!

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so this weekend i was mostly out taking a few snaps - while doing that i took time to do a sketch OUTSIDE. THinking about it, i don't know if i've actually done it before. The main reason being that one feels like a right twat - hopefully i can embrace my inner twat fully and do some more of this sort of thing. In fact maybe we all can eh chaps? we could even use the cambridge trip as an opportunity for that sort of thing?

also still working on finishing up that "Hidden Treasure" piece...almost done. here's a sneak peak!

also got some photos to bung into photoshop, so i'm off now. Byeeeeeeee...

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uploaded some new stuff to my flickr today as well - time to veg out for the evening i think...

http://www.flickr.com/photos/aidanwilson/sets/72157616616267801/

mya

Very nice! The Peak District photos are ace!

awilson

thanks mya! hopefully i'll be able to add a few pics of cambridge this weekend - you better be a good tour guide!

cakeypigdog

good lad for drawing outside!! and more lovely photos. top stuff you old tart

awilson

finished - at last!

also tried doing a bit on todays speedpaint - Death and the Maiden - and went absolutely nowhere...humbug!

*edit* did a couple more things this evening

Mr. Carver mentioned a Dr. Jeckyl topic over on some forum, so here's some sketchbook scans including an exceedingly rat-faced Mr. Hyde. Nowt particularly earth-shaking

And This is just a quick speedpaint for a topic over on ImagineFx, "Scarlet" (with a little bit of todays topic thrown in - i just couldnt leave it alone!)

now, to sleep!

bennewman

good stuff aidan! i like the van goghy sky on the first one

awilson

heres some edited er, "highlights" from this weeks sketchbooks

And thats probably it till next week...adios muchachos!

awilson

just finished up the "No face" speedpaint tonight

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not much more to show this week, but i have been doing a shed-load of tutorials. A bit of a backlog had built up, but i'm making my way through them all...i reckon i'll be awesome at everything in about 5.7 days

in the meantime here's some sketchbook doodles

*edit* i spend a bit over an hour today doing a self portrait with just a pencil, a mirror and my poor face. (Trying to escape the clutches of my wacom/photoshop dependence and use more traditional, and entirely unforgiving, mediums)

I'll save the more sensitive souls the trauma of inflicting it on them here, but you'll find it on my conceptart sketchbook if your curiosity gets the better of you....

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It's Sunday, so its time for some hot bust action!

Feel the Graphite!

*edit* also tonal/anatomy study.

cakeypigdog

tits aidan, tits!

cakeypigdog

oooh and btw, Ryan, Rachel and Esme are coming on saturday too. So is my mate Phil (with camera in tow). its going to be good. Rich and Haley said they will also hopefully come.
Mya are you and Dbaker going to darken our doors?

bennewman

very nice. like the way the shadow of the hand describes form.

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another photographic/anatomy study - this stuff will keep me going till i get back to a life-drawing class...oneday

cakeypigdog

bums aidan, bums!

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here we go again!

concept art and blogs updated - exciting i know

sneak peak follows in 3...2...1...

...theres more but you won't find it here...

awilson

all the wip-age you can eat on my conceptart thread/blog.
Crits welcome (and needed)...

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more art related hilarity at conceptart/blog

Ha Ha Ha

He He He etc...

mya

Brave man, there's no Ctrl+Z where you're going...