Chris' Art-showroom

[chris_r_art]

scrambling around .. wip

Polishing this up a bit still working on it ^^ sadly i didn't have time today until now to work on it and even now i still have much work to do for school xD

This is just a sketch i did in class with took me about 15 min. xD suprisingly i did draw it on paper because usually i just tend to draw on tables dew to my laziness just practicing faces a bit more and trying to find my style

Wind-Valor

I'm currently studying one of my most favourite artist - WLOP. I think he is such a great artist because he really knows how to make paintings emotional and i instantly attach to most of his paintings !^^ [WIP]

WLOP's South-Mountain

[Original] below

It was super fun to make this Study and I really think this is a great way to understand the Original painting more and its intensions ^^ hope you guys like it and it didn't come out to crappy >-< I tried to use different tones then in the original painting to make it more ...i don't know ..make it feel more like i put my twist on it? xD if that makes sense.. and for all those who might be wondering why I sometimes always change my final image, its because i don't really name them right and i always upload and older version of the paintings

[chris_r_art]

currently woking on this one ^^ Im pretty proud that I managed to paint her face without any reference

Blue Firn

This is a Playfull yet a bit Ethereal character ^^ Im trying to practise more Face anatomy and also Skin color that works with environments. I find Wlops way of painting really appealing and i think that my style also resembles that

Hey guys ! Just a quick update because I feel really bad for not uploading for 2 days. I sort of feel down and because recently i did a lot of paintings and even tried things i never did before like this upclose face painting and i really had a good feeling uploading all of these here, on the website but now they didn't get any sorts of comments and I really appreciated all of you guy's opinions so..I don't really know where to go from here or if you guys just think that my recent stuff was crappy and even if so i would really like to know because then i would know what to work on or.. don't invest more time in..

[cedricgo]

I definitely don't think your recent work is crappy at all. I think you did a good job with the South Mountain study. The new tones work well.

I also really like that last portrait. I really like the colors and the character herself looks lovely. And now that you mention it, I do see a bit of Wlop in the way you did the portrait.

Anyway, I really hope you'll keep posting more stuff. I think you definitely are improving.

[achronic]

I think you're doing incredibly well for your age; one thing I would recommend, is to draw more than paint. Rendering is a skill that can make things pretty, but if your structure is off, so will the rest be. I made the mistake of spending a lot of time trying to render stuff when I was younger, pushing the important part away (drawing).

[ESL]

My advice, particularly in response to your recent update, is don't focus on getting compliments/attention for your work. It takes away from you truly expressing yourself and only focusing on what/where your goals are as an artist. You're young and doing well at that! Don't fret and fall into the trap of hopelessness because everything comes with time and effort. If art's the one thing you feel complete in, just do it for sake of you. Also, it's good to just paint for sake of relaxing instead of getting better. Keep it up Cheers to future progress!

[chris_r_art]

still in a very early state but like always i will show you guys all the WIP moments ^^ and thank you @achronic @cedricgo @ESL for your comments and i really don't know why but i was just feeling quite down that week but no more with that ^^ ill try even harder now since I had an operation on Thursday and i had to stay in the hospital until Friday I didn't draw / paint for like 3 days so i hope i can catch up again and push myself a little further ^^ Not (just) to prove it to anyone, but to prove it to myself

I want to keep this one simplistic so it kind of still has some drawing characteristics ^^ I worked a bit on the face but I have a tight schedule today because I have to leave in 5 min. to go to the doctor again xD

...I kinda don't like where this one went..way to messy for me so i cleaned it up a bit ^^

Shattering ( clean cut..i guess ^^)

Finally finished xD thank god

[chris_r_art]

some sketching

[cedricgo]

I really dig what you did with your ''Shattering'' piece. I do have a few pointers I'd like to share. Right now her face is viewed slightly from the side, but it feels like her features are placed like it was a front view. I think that there should be a little bit of perspective to the features. I'm not sure how to explain it so I made a small GIF that I hope will make it a bit clearer.

Also, I think that you could really define the shadows some more. It would help show the forms a bit more and makes things a bit more readable. I tried to do it a bit in the GIF. I'm not sure how well it turned out though XD

And lastly, this is more a suggestion, but have you tried playing with the saturation of your color? I guess this was meant to be a monochromatic painting, but it can help create color variation without actually changing color. And it also has the added benefit of allowing you to create points of interests by contrasting low saturation with higher saturation. I just tried with the lips and eyes to see what it could give.

I'm not sure if it's better or worse, or if it even fits what you had in mind, but I just wanted to give you something that you maybe had not thought of.

Anyway, keep up the good work! That Taurus character looks cool so far.

[chris_r_art]

Thanks @cedricgo I see what your putting down ^^ I will definitely will work on perspective issues. I kind of had in mind that she is viewed from the front more but also from below and the thing with the saturation is that in a lot of my paintings from earlier in my journey are just over saturated and i kind of wanted to give this one a black and white feeling to it for some more variation

[chris_r_art]

man this week sucks .. i can't post tomorrow and I didn't have time to draw/ paint anything today because school has just taken over my life by now i hope I'll be able to just snuck in some in class doodles so i don't die of boredom.

getting back on track with this wip ^^ want to make something cool with the foot .. still deciding xDimg src="//cubebrush-forums.s3.amazonaws.com/original/3X/6/3/6327f72258f6d1516b2dfb2219789370d76aee48.jpg" width="889" height="1171">

Tåurus

i think its done !^^ I tried to make him feel more epic / atmospheric and will probably also feature him in future paintings or just doodles I do in physics class i guess we'll see how the cookie will crumble

( hyper drive activated)

today is my birthday so I can't really draw much but i did some scribbles and a little eye drawing

nothing to see here...just a floating ferret coming bye ... Today was the first time for me to bath in our new home and it felt kinda weird and i kinda do miss my old home i kinda just drew this because of that i guess xD tomorrow i will get myself a sketchbook so i can draw / sketch more on the go ^^will definitely upload them here too

Sky Pearlescent

[sanguine]

Nice work. I can see you've gotten much better at describing forms with value. Keep this up:)

[chris_r_art]

Thanks @sanguine !

[chris_r_art]

Fira sketches >-<

don't know why but i can't give this character another name but fira xD I must say that @Firathion is probably style wise one of my most favs on this platform ^^ i guess this one is for you

Coloring !^^ wip . I didn't / wont color dodge at all for this one because it destroyed a few of my portraits before, working with the..well in german its called 'weiches Licht' and the closest translation I think would be soft lighting brush setting ?

Fira (Blood-born)

now that I look at it, it reminds me kind of of the piece from marc called 'stare'... Well i guess best of both worlds ^^ In a recent piece Wlop uses these..well.. 'wings' more like muscle and bone wings in a piece and I thought it might fit to this piece to give it a ...well..darker contrast x)

[Georgie]

So much cool stuff here, awesome to see someone working so hard and pushing to improve. Keep it up, I can't wait to see more

[chris_r_art]

Thank you !^^ That really made my day

[chris_r_art]

The Arrival

starting the sketch for the Weekly challenge ^^! so glad that that it's up again kind of saw it too late or else i would've started on monday getting basic colors down and facial proportions ^^ >

I still want to include an alien maybe in the left corner or maybe also a cute one ^^ what do you guys think ?

finally satisfied with the face ^^

Aliens are really good composition pieces and sources of lighting !! @fathomcube I hope you don't mind that I used one of your awesome alien creatures as reference for this guy >-<

[cedricgo]

Those last few pieces came out fairly well! I feel like I'm starting to see a nice style developing, at least as far as the way you do faces.

My only recommendation for now would be to work on the hair a bit more. Some of your most recent stuff have nicely painted faces, but the hair are more undefined. The way they are right now would actually work well as a good base. They just need a bit more love and refinement. Other than that keep it up!

[chris_r_art]

ok I will up my hair game ! ^^ thanks for the feedback

[chris_r_art]

The Arrival

I wanted to make a scene wich isn't hard to read and also structured into 2 bits
-the top wich includes the main characters and also seen by the positioning of them that the Alien is superior against the human
-and the bottom wich kind of tells more of the story and what is going on ^^
I guess the fairy is equivalent to a translator for the alien and I thought that would be a cool touch ^^
But I'm not sure if I should include the reflexion of the alien in the exo ( hazmat )-suit opinions ?

[ESL]

Awesome progress Chris! One big thing I see for improvement is values. It helps to play with the fore/mid/background placement and attention in a piece.
Also, the reflection in the Arrival piece seems fine! It reads as a hazmat suit- I'd just move the fairy person on the right down so it doesn't interfere with the composition.