Speed painting number two. This time of a robot or a mech or since this was inspired by Pacific Rim a jaeger. When I did this I hadn't seen the movie I just saw the posters on my way to work and thought that it looked like a fun movie at the very least. Having seen it this last Sunday I can safely say that my assessment was correct. Not my favorite Del Toro movie but really good and really fun.  I don't do a lot of mechanical stuff so this was tricky for me. There are some composition issues  that could have been helped by the inclusion of atmospheric perspective and the jaeger itself has issues that just come from my inexperience with drawing mechanical stuff. This came out okay and I learned a lot that I'll apply next time I do something like this. 

Lots of bending and knelling on page 26.

So I'm going to start doing five speed paintings every week. I've needed to do more original stuff so this is what I decided to do. Once I get more comfortable with how my colors and composition are coming out I'll turn one into a finished piece. 

Here's the first. I was going for a creepy vibe here like there's something mystical and evil going on in that building on the mountain and the hero is going to go up there and try to stop it. I like the way the clouds turned out the way they radiate from the building and I like the way the lights came out. What I think I need to work on is atmospheric perspective and using fewer brush strokes.

Page 25 and it's got a little bit of everything.

 A scene from a movie version of Hamlet. I don't really like how this one came out. The colors on his face are muddy and he doesn't look as angry as he does in the original shot. the pose came out good and the colors on everything else are alright. So the things I did poorly on here where the things I was working on. Well now I know where my weaknesses are and hopefully I'll be able to fix them.

Leg heavy on page 24.

 From Hellboy 2. One of the cool things about doing these film studies is the opportunity to paint a lot of different things like this guy. He's some sort of monster that Hellboy and Abe fight and I just thought he looked neat. I think that he came out great for such a short painting I got the lighting and composition down and the texture on his skin while still kinda rough looks good.

Legs and arms on page 23.

 A scene from one of my favorite movies How To Train Your Dragon. One of the few movies in recent years that I think deserves a sequel. This is the scene where Toothless (the dragon) and Hiccup are feeling each other out but really I could have picked just about any scene in the movie and it would have been a beautiful shot.

More hands on page 22.

 A scene from a movie version of Macbeth. I like this shot because Lady Macbeth looked very creepy here, with the shadows and light giving her skin a greenish tint and creating very dramatic shadows around her eyes.

Some jumping and a few hands on page 21

 A shot from Avatar. I really like the lighting in this scene and I think that overall this turned out really good. This is the first study that's two hours long and that seems to be the right amount of time to get the feeling of the scene down. My goal with these isn't so much specific things like textures or detail but things like composition, lighting and color. While there are some minor issues with this one I like it.

Finishing the Hogarth studies. This is the 20th page and I have a lot of action and movement shots.