Digital painting

About 6 months ago I got a tablet PC at work and was very excited. I started working in Alias Sketchbook often for concepting. Just doing sketches for level layouts and quick "communication sketches" which is my description of my er, shall we say, unrefined drawings that I give to the artists to communicate my ideas.

Recently I got rid of my tablet pc because it was underpowered and none of the CS3 suite worked with the pressure sensitivity. I just got a new laptop and a Wacom. Wacom tablets are so much nicer than tablets for drawing its crazy. I had no idea of the difference.

I have always been blown away by digital paintings at site like conceptart.org and and my previous attempts at digital painting were a disaster. Recently I found this tutorial and this one. This guys art blows me away. After laboring over his tutorials and fooling around I think I have found a style that suits me pretty well.

I am going to be trying to do a couple quick paintings a week and post them so I can practice and (hopefully) track my development. These are just practice pieces.

Flower

Fish

Once I work my way through the Fs I will move onto the Ks.

I already redid some art in my game this way so you can see the updated stuff in the alpha posting.