Author: Wei

This painting is part of a new series that I am doing. It will be similar to my really old paintings, the Asian Mythology series, but more scifi-ish, and hopefully more thought provoking as well. But I don’t expect to make statues out of them like I did with that series. Sculpting is a lot of fun in initial stages, but gets to be a grind towards the later stages.

With enough practice in painting, I am hoping to get my art to a level where I can showcase and get a following in Patreon. Seems like a great crowd-funding (supporting) platform for artist to do what they love. I suppose I need to really improve on my art first. But things are starting to ‘click’ more with each painting.

Latest painting using an oil brush in Photoshop. This is the first time I have used this kind of brush in Photoshop. It definitely feels more like real traditional painting. I really like how this brush allows me to place and push colors around without mudding everything up. Maybe this is the better way of painting, I don’t know. But it definitely seems more “fun.”

This is Emily Rudd if you didn’t recognize her. I didn’t realize that I had use her face in one of my old portrait drawing videos. I was looking for a pretty face to paint and she popped up again in the search. So she must have a pretty face=). Anyhow, for the background I decided to add some colors so that it is not a plain white background again.

Click on the image to see the full resolution. Thanks for visiting and more to come whenever I have more free time and inspiration.

Here is the finished painting from my previous post. I have added a background since I realize I better start learning about placing my subjects into a scene to create somewhat of a narrative. This is something that I have done very little in the past and I guess it is because I do feel intimated by that process. It is a lot easier to just paint a figure without any background, just splash on some design element in the back and call it done. But I think I have been doing myself a disservice by doing that.

So there, from now on, I will push myself to paint in backgrounds to create a narrative.

My latest portrait painting using the same technique that I’ve talked about previously. Again the resolution is very low, under 600 pixels tall. What you see here is my actual resolution.

On the left of the portrait is the palette that I have been using lately. It seems to work well as a starter palette, just to have something to put down. Then I can refine the colors to give it a different mood or color scheme. In Photoshop, I use the Curves adjustment for that. It’s a quick fix, but overall, I am trying to stay away from effects when painting. I notice that I learn a lot more about the process of painting if I just stick with learning to place in the “correct” color in the first place. Colors is so complicated and seems like the more I learn, the more complicated it gets. That really applies to anything in life I guess.