Tulips and Chimneys Valentine's Day illustration

At the beginning of this year I began working as a digital painter at an animation and concept development studio in Cape Town called, Tulips and Chimneys. This is an artwork I created as a promotional piece for Valentine's Day. The image directly below is the final piece.

Below is the original line drawing that I scanned into Photoshop to be painted. It consists of various separate line drawings: the central creature on the mound, the border, and the banner. All comped together in Photoshop. Other elements such as the foxes and the birds were added later. 

Below left: The thumbnail sketch. Below right: Pencil sketch.

The line drawings were done using a Uni-ball Pin 0.05 mm pen.

Bottom left colouring in Photoshop on the Cintiq24hd, and the final print on archival paper on the bottom right.

Environment Studies

Schoolism environment lighting studies from around the house.

The image below is the same scene lit at different times of the day.

Some of my more recent illustrations.

Individually Strange Characters

Some new creatures and sketches.

It's been a while since I've posted anything up in here, so I thought I'd share with you some things I have been busy with these past couple of months. In no particular order, here are some illustrations.

Finally! Some personal work!

Its been a good couple of weeks since I have had a chance to do some personal work, in part due to the fact I have taken on some extra part time freelance work. I cannot say much about it, but I am busy doing illustration and after effects work on an animated short. 

The work-in-progress below is a little experiment I'm doing with an interesting colour palette. Hope it turns out okay.

Clown Fish Boobies

A drawing I did last night. It's been a while since I did something just for the sake of nothing in particular. What more could one want: Boobies and clown fish to make you happy :) 

On a side note, if you're on facebook, come and say hi! facebook.com/BenWinfieldArt

 

Printh Charming

I haven't done an illustration like this before, and after finding out about the illustrator Chris Campbell, I decided I wanted to try something similar to his style. Meet the thuper thekthy printh charming accompanied by Mulch, his ever omnipotent sidekick.

Grandpa's Big Day Out in Cape Town

A little character I started last Friday for the Facebook page A Character A Day.

Afternoon sky study

There's just something so awesome about having one's head in the clouds. A quick lunchtime sketch.

Lunchtime sky study.

A lunchtime sky study of the view from my house in my hometime.

Christmas Doodles

Hey guys! I hope your Christmas season has been going amazingly amazing. Here are a couple of quick sketches that I did over the past week.

And below are some observational Photoshop drawings I did whilst on my lunch break at work. Each took about 30 minutes long.

November Spit Painting

Below are some "spit paints" that I have been doing over the past month. "Spit Painting" is a term given to an illustration that is executed very quickly. For these, each one took 30 minutes to complete. To find out more about it, visit the spit painting group on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1402563099961950/

Oil Painting Lesson 3: The Painting Begins

For yesterday's class I began painting my image. At first I was rather overzealous and painted the entire background in one go. However, the colour was too dark so I started over. I was advised to take a slower approach, by observing individual areas and to mix colours for that specific region. It's a slow process, but once you get the right colours it's quite rewarding.

Above: The sky last night, taken outside Frank Joubert.

The pictures below show me trying to mix the correct colours. The left image shows colour swatches which I hold up next to the reference image to give me an idea if I am getting the right colour.

Oil Painting Lesson 2: Mixing colours.

This week's painting class at Frank Joubert was rather challenging. It mainly involved mixing primary colours to form a neutral grey. 

It takes a lot of backwards and forwardsing of adding a bit of this colour, a bit of that colour, and so on and so forth. I managed to get a grey, but it kept either tending towards a yellow/grey or a blue/grey. 

The image I found to paint as my first picture was this one. It's going to be a bit of a challenge but it could look really cool when finished. As  you can see from the second image, I didn't get very far with my underpainting as I spent most of the time struggling with getting a grey.