My first shot at digital painting

Hi y'all! Well, I've been really busy refining my "craft". hehe. As part of my being "serious" with ART, I've decided to acquire a new skill, in addition to my sketching skill and 3d modeling skill. I figured it would greatly benefit my 3d skill mostly particularly in composition and texturing. It's digital painting, hence the blog title... ;-D I thought it shall also help me come up with new concepts without having to go through the whole 3d modeling stage. So, that way, I get to see the look-and-feel of my concept even before I model it maya.

My very first digital painting is entitled "The Window" and you can see the image here. This is my very FIRST digital painting. The last time I painted was when I was in my SOPHOMORE YEAR...nope, not college...HIGHSCHOOL. Hahha. This painting was done in Corel Painter X and effects, color correction and details were added in Photoshop. This painting was really unplanned. It was just supposed to be a STUDY of the human eyes. I was just trying to see if I could paint realistic human eyes in Painter X using just a mouse. Yep, you heard it right...a mouse! No drawing tablet (since i can't really afford one right now...at least not the good ones). And I also discovered that I can make better strokes using a TRACKBALL mouse than an optical mouse. So, that's what I've used in the entire painting process. It took me 3 days (3 hours per day, total of 9 hours) to finish this painting since it was not planned and all. Which means, I just sat in front of my laptop, started painting, and see what comes out. No sketch whatever. None the less I'm still very happy with the outcome. Of course it could use a lot of improvements but I could only do so much on my FIRST painting.

Yesterday, I did a little doodling on my lil old sketch book. And I'm coming up with a new digital painting out from the sketch I did yesterday. I'm giving it the title "Aswang". Hopefully I'd finish it in a few days.