Laughing Buddha and Digital Painting...

So, hello there!

I've been working slowly on my Laughing Buddha and enjoying Photoshop and digital painting more and more.  It's been slow since all of my boys and I have been sick for the last 2 weeks.   Finally caught up on us!  Took a while =P

So here are a few pics of my Laughing Buddha so far....

I tend to get bored half way through and like to try things out, so added a bit of smokey cloud and a space scene.  Not sure if it will stay or not?  I've also painted up a bamboo bridge but my son said "What's that?" and that he liked the green bamboo/stems better =P

I thought it'd be cool to put the Laughing Buddha on a cloud, thinking of adding a gold disc under his feet too... but you know, it's all in the thoughts at present!

I still have a lot of colour blending to do, and some shading and highlights later on.  Getting there though ;)  I'd like to remove the black outlines if I can... I'm still trying to better my skills in digital painting, so will just see how I go on this one =)

Feel free to leave me a comment or suggestions, it all helps and gives me motivation lol =D

Ciao!

My first blog on here! New digital art...

So yep, this is my first blog entry =)

I don't really know what to write lol, but I have a new passion for digital art.

I already had a passion for it, but now I'm finally biting the bullet and trying things out.

I've been doing a lot of reading on Photoshop tutorials and looking at work that I want to aspire to.  Pretty top notch stuff, and I want to be able to do it!!  I have had some experience with Photoshop from pervious art courses, like my Bachelor of Arts and a 3D Animation Diploma, both sadly unfinished, though what I passed, I did well at!  Hopefully over the next few years, my skills will be a lot better =D

Anyway, this image below is a digital painting I did in Photoshop CS5 using a Wacom Intuos 3 Drawing Tablet.

He is a friend from Facebook that volunteered to be my experiment, or guinea pig if you will ;)

The full resolution image can be downloaded at Deviant Art:  http://magithoth.deviantart.com/#/d2vj7vz

I referenced it from an image in his Facebook gallery:

So, it's actually my first human digital painting!  I know it doesn't look *exactly* like him, but he seemed to be happy with it =)  It is my first one after all lol!

Here is an image I'd done just before I started on Horus' portrait:

I named it Luscious Pink.  It's an image of a rose my mum gave me for my birthday this year in June =).

Full resolution download at DA:  http://magithoth.deviantart.com/gallery/#/d2v0ock

I used this pic as a reference:

Anyway, I must depart, my baby is demanding my attention lol.

Peace!