Digital Painting Pipe Dream
Self Portrait - 2nd attempt
I used a photo my friend had taken a year back as reference. But I did change a lot of things in this second portrait, like the hair. I had it much longer than I have painted.
I even made a deviantID out of it for myself. :P
Tue
03
Mar
2009
Making of "Siblings"
by VyomaI am currently working on the third of the series of painting I have been doing. (The first two were King's Blacksmith and Forging).
It actually feels quite different, to go behind topics that are more playful and relaxed that the serious and dramatic ones I usually work on.
The mood seems to reflect back from the painting as I work on it, and sort of forms a feedback loop. :)
You can download the lineart from deviantART if you want to try coloring it. Please attribute back to the source if you choose to publish it.
To keep a close eye on the progress on this painting, watch the CGPainting.com thread - Siblings - I will be updating that regularly.
Forging
I am a craftsman - I am a blacksmith employed to the king of Giants. But at times, when I immerse myself in the heat from the heart of the mountains, I know nothing more than to create. Once they leave this cave, they may end up as instruments for violent means. But within these stone walls, they are my creations.
... one of the occasional journal entries of Derwog, the Giant King's court blacksmith.
I enjoyed doing this painting as a part of expanding and building on the Chaos And Order universe. I have an inkling that there will be more paintings on these characters in an attempt to build up their background and story.
Mon
24
Nov
2008
KalaaLog Tutorial Index Pages Updated
by VyomaTook some time to go through and update my tutorial index pages at KalaaLog.com.
Main tutorial index page has been updated to point to links to the tutorials I wrote at KalaaLog.com to this day. It contains all the general drawing, tool guides, digital painting and vector illustration tutorials.
Similar to the Dragon Workshop page, I created a new page called Peacock Workshop that contains links to all the related tutorials.
This is quite a time consuming work - but I hope it helps readers find what they need. There are now officially 200 posts at KalaaLog.com.
Thu
20
Nov
2008
Self Portrait - First Attempt
by VyomaMy first attempt at a self portrait.
Self Portrait by ~Vyoma on deviantART
My friends would disagree that I look exactly like this, but this was more an attempt to capture the familiarity than realism.
More of my thoughts on self portrait at KalaaLog.com - Self Portrait.
Sat
18
Oct
2008
Kitar - Assassin
by VyomaKitar - Assassin by ~Vyoma on deviantART
This is the second painting of The Assassin Order project. See the first painting - Anwun Assassin.
Kitar is a member of the assassins Oro Order. She has passed the rites of passage. Her modus operandi on missions are usually to assist her team mates with potions, but she has used the poisons of her own creations quite a few times.
Walkthrough articles: Kitar - Assassin - Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5
I think I have gotten quite comfortable to this workflow in GIMP. I start off with a rough work and keep refining it to get a clean line art. Then, I do the color study separately and that really makes it easy to render the artwork.
Mon
21
Jul
2008
Anwun - Assassin
by VyomaAnwun - Assassin by ~Vyoma on deviantART
The first of this series, Anwun is an assassin of the Oro Order - an assassin guild. She has passed the rite of passage of the assassin order and has several successful jobs under her belt.
Done completely in GIMP 2.4 and Wacom Intuos3. Doing this particular piece I never saw GIMP as inferior to Photoshop for digital painting purposes.
WIP thread at CGPainting.com - Anwun - Assassin
Walkthrough articles: Anwun - Assassin - Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3
Sun
29
Jun
2008
Demon Trio - Screech
by VyomaDemon Trio - Screech by ~Vyoma on deviantART
This is the third and the last one of the Demon Trio series of digital painting. First one was Slug, and second one was Slice.
WIP Thread at CGPainting.com: Demon Trio # Screech
Articles at KalaaLog.com: Demon Trio - Screech - Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3
Sun
08
Jun
2008
Demon Trio - Slice
by VyomaDemon Trio - Slice by ~Vyoma on deviantART
This is the second of the Demon Trio series of painting I am doing. (The first one was Slug).
WIP Thread at CGPainting.com: Demon Trio # Slice
KalaaLog.com articles: Demon Trio - Slice - Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3
Mon
26
May
2008
Demon Trio - Slug
by VyomaDemon Trio - Slug by ~Vyoma on deviantART
This is a fun project I started. The first of the three painting series is completed - Slug.
To see the WIP images, check out the Demon Trio thread at CGPainting.com.
Check more at KalaaLog.com too: Demon Trio - Slug - Part 1
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