Hermidraws - Artblog

[JesterSeraph]

By polish, do you mean your painting/colouring or your composition?

[hermidraws]

More like giving a painting its time, working in incremental procses till it get to a more detailed/finished look if that make sense. (Old master landscape paintings, Zhaoming Wu) etc.

So in a sense taking a painting to its max potential then only investing a minimum amount of time in it.

[hermidraws]

[fathomcube]

yo......oke I think I have a good critique finally!

soooo, I don't know what's going on with the last bottom half image...
all the others have some sort of perspective but this one I just can't tell

I think I have an Idea of whats going on but It's only a guesstimate

[hermidraws]

Well that's the core point of this whole exercise, some will make sense, some will make less sense. I just post everything whether its a failure or not. That one I was aiming for aerial perspective, top down view ish, which I failed miserably, ha.

Thanks for your comment though.

[fathomcube]

That's what I thought it was I just didn't know how to explain the perspective view.....(like birds eye view...well you got the idea across then!

[catapanoart]

A lot of good studies here. I think Noah Bradley art camp has a environment design course now. Check it out, if you haven't already.

[hermidraws]

@catapanoart
Thank you for your comment

---

Was suppose to be a sabbatical day, but when you're waiting for someone you try every means possible to kill time. So pulled up a small A5 notebook and did a sketch, then decided to pull up my phone and experiment drawing with only my finger. (Samsung GT-I9060C , drew on Google Keep)

---

Will be evaluating what I have been doing for the last 2 weeks tomorrow, and see if I am going to the direction I want.

[hermidraws]

[hermidraws]

Free version of a pattern I have been working on
http://bit.ly/2dLqD7q

Can see the full presentation here
https://www.behance.net/gallery/44054803/Sea-Squad-Fish-Pattern-(Free)

[stealcase]

@brianhermelijn The link is broken, and typing out manually the the Bit.ly link in the image gives nothing either (I'm pretty sure the link is case sensitive also, so the all caps link wouldn't work anyway).
Just a heads up.

[hermidraws]

Fixed it. Thanks for the heads up. Was missing one more letter.

[hermidraws]

Forgot to post this yesterday.

[hermidraws]

Mini-study session of Hiroshi Yoshida. Trying to figure out his way of painting. I am fascinated by how simple his painting are yet, pleasing to look at .

[hermidraws]

Mini-study session Hiroshi Yoshida

Things I have learned
- Simple 2 or 3 flat colors for most elements
- Textured canvas
- Applied strokes in certain spots

---

Overall I consider the study session a success. The last result is exactly what I wanted, and will be applying it for the paintings to come, to see how well it works etc. After all, applying another advice from the book "steal like an artist" which is to chew on one thinker before moving to the next.

[hermidraws]

Daily 90 min Warm-up

[krunchymoist]

Your Mini Hiroshi Yoshida study session came out lovely. I love thethumbnails. What brushes did you use for these?
I need to go back and do some master studies as well?

Also how are you doing your thumbnails are drawing them in small and then zooming in for the little details?

[hermidraws]

For the thumbnails I just stay at a 50% zoom sometimes even 25%, and focus mainly on shapes, letting the thumbnails take its own direction.

The brush I used is one I made for myself, but you can find similar brushes in Jaimie Jones Brush Pack. I used to download everyone's brushes, but now I decided to just delete everything and only use the ones I make up. Because you know best what kind of brush you need.

Hope that helps!

[hermidraws]

http://www.instantstreetview.com/@67.691652,12.71896,228.66h,13.09p,0z

---

[hermidraws]

Morning warm up