Hermidraws - Artblog

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New pattern I am working on. Design assets. Will be releasing a free and paid version next week Tuesday/Wednesday.

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Interesting environment compositions, I love the way you explore with colors in your video!

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ey @achronic Thank you very much for your compliments

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Lost the drive a bit for the past 2 days. Was taking a full day sabbatical on Sunday, but then lost the drive to do almost anything for the past 2 days.

But will be back into it by tomorrow morning. Possibly something different, in terms of exploring other exercises etc.

And will be joining Magicbox 2.0 by the end of this month. In case you want to know what that is http://oatleyacademy.com/magic-box/

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I have been trying something really different than the usual. And that is to watch a live nature scene and paint from that video. The process I thought could work, wasn’t working at all for the paintings.

So I am still trying to figure out how to go about painting from watching a live video of a nature scene and translating that to the canvas in my own vision

That’s what comes close to “virtual plein-air” painting at the moment, till I can go out in the field with an on-screen tablet to actually paint from the location.

Because what I am most interested in learning is ways to paint the real world and not a static image, so I have to set up methods for now that allows me to feel as if I am at that location. And the method that comes close to that is to watch a live nature scene with the actual sound of that location.

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Didn’t finish both of them because I got really really frustrated due of not been able to actually draw and paint what I saw.. so have to scratch my current process and figure out a different process or simply do some exercises that will aid into drawing these scenes that changes every seconds etc.

Any insights or pointers to some sources that can aid with this is always appreciated..

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Playing around with Painstorm. Really love the overall feel of the software. A bit laggy, especially with my laptop. But overall, if they fix performance, I see myself purchasing this software in the foreseeable future.

Final processing was done in photoshop. A bit of gaussian blur, noise, sharpness. And also great stress reliever from what I tried yesterday and today. Reminded me to just make the process simple, like for this one, I just grabbed a shot from Ice Age 3, and from the shot compose a frame that I like best.

After that used colors that felt more at home for me, and down to painting I went.

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Simple form sketches

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Wasn't going to post this, but shall do it anyway. It's a little experiment. More in-depth description on the article

http://bnhermelijn.tumblr.com/post/152407410991/wasnt-going-to-post-this-but-decided-to-do-it

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I will be on a 2 Days experiment for this weekend. I will be limiting my internet access to only Soundcloud, Pinterest, Habatica for this weekend. I want to see what will happen if I limit my choices, and how I would actually use my time.

I found myself browsing through the forums a lot, behance, dribbble, collosal, read mangas, watch animes, play games. So I want to limit myself into a box, and see how I would use my time if those sites didn't exist.

I will be blocking the sites to prevent myself to open them. Another thing I also started was to install an extension called "Shut up" on Chrome. That basically turns off all comments on any sites that is in a block form. You do have the options for turning it on or off.

I also installed an extension to Hide all Youtube Comments, and thus far I like this approach best. Because it limits the time you waste to read the comments, which doesn't aid you productively.

Who knows what I will learn from this, but I am excited to test it out. If by any chance I like this approach best, will try more extended scale of tuning out of the matrix.

Until then, keep painting fellas, and see you on Monday.

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aight man good luck

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Came back from my little break, gotta be honest, I cheated a bit yesterday. It seems a lot of things I need to do requires internet nowadays. Other then that, its all about balance. So shall keep that in mind on this point onward.

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Some sketches I did in the weekend.

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My journey of art thus far explained in a video format.

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After taking a look at the past month, I noticed that I wasn't executing the way I wanted to. So I will be doing a 100% commitment this month towards studying/mini-exercises during the weekdays, and one/two finish piece every week for this month.

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1. 90 Minutes Study specific subjects for landscapes etc.
2. 90 Minutes Study specific design subjects such as patterns, logos etc.
3. One finished piece (record while painting) to post on Youtube weekly basis

I won't be studying 90 minutes straight. The way I study is set a certain amount of time (10 minutes study / 10 minutes test) to see how much I learned, and retained from the study. So its an immediate application. And take notes of what can be done better, if I nailed what I wanted I continue if not I redo the study till I understand what I wanted to study.

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So in total that's not a lot, but the key here is to be consistent. And this also allows me to just do the process and see what happens, just for this month.Stay tuned, shall be posting later in the day.

Youtube channel

Brian Hermelijn

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[achronic]

Hey! nice seeing you being consistent, you're going to improve a lot

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Likewise, keep going on your part as well

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Thumbnail compilation, part of a discord challenge that I am on (Anthony Jones Discord)

All in order. Day 1, Day 2, Day 3. Each done differently, and pushed a bit more extreme after receiving critiques from other peeps on discord.

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