Othrandir's guide to whatever

[Othrandir]

{CKL} - Thanks for the comment CKL! Yeah , my faces have always sucked , I need to work so much harder


so ccrazy stuff happening.I'm going to have my own exhibition in march , so I have to produce some good stuff









revisited an old paiting , which I think has some potential. I don't know if I'm done with it yet.



also a new painting from today.I call it " Tired."

[Psychobuddy]

Steadily improving man, keep pushing! And congrats on the exhibition.

[Othrandir]

Psychobuddy - Thanks buddy! I can't wait to see my stuff hangin on the walls and people nodding like crazy while looking at them haha



Today I did some client work , but other than that I finished the dragon thing and I also did two 30 min airplane studies.Unfortunately the second one got corrupted...so yeah , here's a dragon and a plane

[TristanFletcher]

Your studies are really nice, as well with your pencil work!

[Psychobuddy]

Yeah man nice plane, and good job putting the dragon into context! Now let's see something new, keep it coming.

[will123will]

Great progress man, keep on studying

[Othrandir]

wuut 3 comments woohooow! I'm filled up with joy !!
akhm...yeah...awkward...


TristanFletcher - Thank you! I enjoyed your pencil work as well! P.S. I love that Tolkien quote

Psychobuddy - hehe , you're right that it needed some sort of a backstory instead of a random dragon flying Here's something new for you buddy!

will123will - Thank you! I'm keepin , I'm studyin


some stuff from today for youuuuuu
Got back into toned paper , yey.How could I not after seeing for the 100th time Donato Giancola's stuff...daaaaaamn the guy rocks

the guy with the hat was supposed to be Indiana Jones.Everything else is from mind.









and a part of a new personal painting I started, trying to give more sense to my senseless paintings
I learned so muuch from it so far , I can't wait to see it finished ( hope I do't ruin it in the process...)

[Othrandir]

I'm trying streaming again in 5 mins , come and watch if you'd like

http://www.livestream.com/othrandirs...tever?t=714190

[Othrandir]

haven't slept yeey
Here's what I was doing through the night.
finished the dragon thing (came out waay too contrasty as always...damn.)
Although , I am not extremely happy with the painting , it felt like a huge leap forward.One of the most obvious things for me was that I started painting without zooming in all the time.Most of the time I was far away , which was extremely hard for me.



the sketch I did beforehand



close-ups





I also did another re-do of an old painting.This time a lot quicker and dirtier. 2-3hours max.

[Othrandir]

Just some sketcheeees





I call him Mr.Whatthefuckiswrongwithmylips Smith

[Quiet Pyre]

That blue face guy really stands out ! The tiny specular highlights really make his skin look detailed. And the spiky jaw thing hahaha. I really like that one. C:

[Othrandir]

Quiet Pyre - Thank you! It seems like a lot of people like that guy.The weird thing is I don't find him that good looking



Yey! Today was a really produvtive day, even though I got up at like 9:30 am and didn't start working 'till 11 'o clock.I managed to take out a big out of my commission stuffs and as a reward I did a lot of studies and experiments.

started with three 20 min still lifes to warm up ( I had to make up most of the lighting , since it was a creepily gloomy morning...everything greeey ) , not sure about the headphones , maybe I'll blow itout into a more detailed thing , but I haven't decided yet.Probably gonna leave it like that.







so here's the sketchbook stuff - hands , faces and poses - some of them from reference , most of them from mind















I tried a new style of studying - doing the preliminary sketch and colors from photo reference , and after the basics are down go your own way.It's really fun!
Experimenting with textures and going for color



I went through Bumskee's sketchbook again ( I'll never get tired of it ) and I decided to try and do one of these.Great practice.





and a 1 hr sketch to let some steam out.Trying to put some texture in my work for a change.I've always been working with mostly the hard round brush and always smoothing things over.Figured I was missing out on something and I waaaaas Everything today I did with almost no zooming in and it feels GREAT!

[Othrandir]

So today wasn't nearly as productive as yesterday.Suuper depressing day...nothing came out nice and I had zero excitement while drawing...anyway

two sketchbook pages , a live portrait of a girl in my drawing course and a sketch for a new painting

[ezekrialase]

Bad day's are tough to get through :/ keep on studying though, there's awesome improvement going on here! And I really like the portrait of the girl in #313

[Seraph Fawkes]

You've got nice sense of color (I like the dragon art) and values, just keep practicing anatomy more! Cheers!

[lionheartGFX]

your figures are getting really solid man, the only thing i see you miss sometimes is balance and proportions you go all wacky, and while that is not bad do keep it under control, i would love to see you do some perspective studies, but dont do JUST that or you will bore yourself to death, mix it up i guess some still lifes are still missing here, and some life stuff! other than that Incredible hard work! i will wait for youre next drawings patiently!

good luck and work your ass off!

[Othrandir]

in a hurry
yey , I've got a tumblr now - www.othrandir.tumblr.com be sure to follow me, I want dem stalkers

since i don't have the time for a proper update now, here's some pumpkins through the ages

[Othrandir]

ezekrialase - Thank you for the comment!Yeah, I just have to buckle down and do what I have to do... and listen to some nice music while doing it

Seraph Fawkes - Heh, glad you like it. Yeah, my anatomy has always sucked.Trying to kick my ass with poses...

lionheartGFX - Thank you!Awesome crit, man! and you're so right, my poses always look wanky.I think I need to draw some more from photos and life, rather than only from mind.

a friend drew me one of these -> :3 <- , but sort of made it like a bear, so I played around with it a bit.We called it care-gollum, because it looks creepy but he cares
I'm experimenting with the smudge tool.This was mostly done by putting down color with a brush with no opacity dynamics and then spreading with the smudge tool with a scatter brush.



and here's some sketches

[llex_paul]

cute characters! also i like the way you use textures! also i like your colors! keep up the good work!

[Othrandir]

llex_paul - Thanks, dude! Glad to have you here


pencils - sketches and figures mostly , all from imagination
digis - LOTR FOTR screencap studies ( 40-60 mins each ) and a crazy random sketch from this morning to warm up ( 20 mins i think)

[Othrandir]

Okay, well at first it was supposed to be a speed painting of a flying chick in a random background, but i kinda got way into the background...so yeah

It was pointed out to me that it looked a bit like Noah Bradley's painting, that was not my intention at all , I didn't even think of it that way until someone told me.

anyway, it took about 3-4 hours, I hope you like it




and the steps I could gather...didn't really think ahead, sorry

[ezekrialase]

Love this last painting, the lighting on the clouds is so dramatic! Did you use reference?

[Othrandir]

ezekrialase - almost no reference at all!(I'm kinda proud of that ) used only for the waves and some of the lighting situations
I really don't know whose are these, I just googled stuff

[Othrandir]

Doing the teen challenge for the first time!

The topic is "Return of the terror"

Here's what i have so far

[Othrandir]

and here is the final version ( my values suuuuuuuuuuuuck)

[Othrandir]

some sketches, skullzz from life ( well in their case, not that much life but you knwo what i mean) and my drawing class







then i tried randoooom experimentation with a small sketch of a girl things turn weird quickly when you don't give a crap about the end result



here's the before & after

[Othrandir]

some sketches



and a small thing i did for my fb cover http://www.facebook.com/Othrandir

[Othrandir]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJ3xTjvj9tw

[Othrandir]

some sketchezz



and also wanted to show you my new book separator i made for myself How i did it you ask?, Well, very easy, 1) I took a piece of paper and drew it
2) then i scanned it and printed out a new,exatly the same version, flipped it and taped it on the backside of the original
3) took it to get laminated and voila!

[Othrandir]

Okay guyssss! Going hardcorererererer

These were all done today, I don't believe it either But yey Productivity boost

sketches I didn't bother to put in any particular order, so yeah : almost all heads are from head, except for Eddard Stark ( try to find him! ), poses from mind and hogarth, hands from life and from hogarth, skulls from photos









1hour still life of my IBM coffee mug



20 min still life of Bob with some random on top of it



1hr 30 mins still life of a wine bottle on my desk ( trusty companion after a finished painting ), perspective is so shitballs on this :X



and a supermegacrazy random 3 hr portrait



bleh that's it , tomorrow more