Portrait painting recording

Damned, I've been doing A LOT of stuff recently. Half of it I can't show because they are Tryaade artworks. Others because it is only crap, miniature design stuff, random abstract banners. Rest of it are some portraits or chara design of fiction characters of the several stories I'm building at the moment.
Also I've been writing quite a lot for these stories. Beside all that, I've had another final paper to due and some homework.

Well, there is a new WIP I started tonight. It is also a known character of mine, he's called Sough. He comes from a story I started writing a year ago, it is written in french but I guess you can read it. It is on a french speaking forum I like. The sotry is called The Winter Town Chronicle. If you speak french and you like reading, feel free to have a look.

What is cool is I recorded this. I had done a couple of pencil portraits on paper right before and I felt like painting one of them, but I rarely scan, I just do it again from scratch in Photoshop, just in case I change my mind on the look.
When I don't like a portrait I usually enlarge the canvas and start making the rest of the body, until I get the entire body. I had to resize the thing a couple of times otherwise it would be too big. It is actually 4500x8500px large, which is ok.



At this point I have to make myself a reference board. So I'll come back with that and maybe I'll record the next steps. I'm gonna have a lot of work on this. I hope you're enjoying so far. I do.

Hey I was up to paint tonight. I started three more character design for Tryaade but can't finish them before I get some feedback. So I thought about this old WIP I had in my file folder. Well it is still not finished. But I'll keep this sketchy version just in case, and maybe I'll detail and polish another version and push it very far and see which one happen to be the best.
It had a background at first but I tried the white no background and it works much better, otherqise it is very tiring kind of stuff, very too much colors. So I have a good reason to not make a background this time. : )
Let see.

Ups. I liked it better when it was less detailed. I really need to learn when to stop, this weird polishing habit is starting to piss me off.

Blog Cleaning

Hey there.
So my website is online and almost ready. (It is still missing the printshop page but that will come soon) Now that a have a decent online portfolio I'm gonna use this blog as a blog. /o/
www.smirtouille.com
The website links also to my blog and any website where I go, so feel free to travel.

I cleaned the blog a little bit -means I deleted half of the posts- If I deleted a comment of you I'm sorry. I hope you won't mind. I won't do a cleaning again in the futur since I'll put only doodles and news in here, nothing that has to be clean.
Basically I'll leave here most of the things that are not shown in my portfolio and some random stuff I do.
If you have any request about anything, just ask.

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And I finished the daemon last night but I also finished this fallen angel thing. I started it a while ago and decided to finish. Because I polished the previous daemon a lot I tried to keep this one sketchy and more sincere. It's called Doubted.

And I did a little character design of an old role play guy of mine, just for fun. Here he is. Random asian fictive guy. He has a heavy background though, I like him. So I made him a fresher version. First name is Tourma, last name is Ren Wei. He was born in the Gui Kingdom, Pei district. I quite redesign his clothing because I don't want to make a totally traditional asian world, so I mixed some european things with it. I would build more this world if I had more time.

Daemon

Here is the final version.

Hey.
I guess there is not much female characters in my portfolio, specially nude female figure. So that is what I'm working on.
Also Arvalis proposed me to make an evil pin-up as he's doing. I made some try at that but, actually I hate pin-ups. But I'm still doing a demon female nude.
I don't like much to paint the female body, I feel restraint to soft and sweet shapes, specially if it has to be a nice body. I prefer to make strong shapes and volumes in the anatomy and I like to play with the clothing, so I have to stop myself to put black leather all over her body, lol.

I have a background with that but I'm still working on, though the character is finished. So there is my daemon. The complete image will come soon, I'm gonna have some fun with leaves and bright green vegetation.

Portraits of various characters I did, for a story of mine.
From top left to bottom right: Gadaï, Abaï, Aron, Celester, Zaglioni and Ashana. Instead of Zag they are all family related.



New six characters. I think I got all the main characters, there are still one main character to portray and two or tree secondaries.
But here you have, from top left to bottom right: Safeneone, Zaphar, Lise, Alkiz, Oros, Belle.

Another evil dude. That is the kind of pants they usually wear. The top is more exotic. But I love that pants.

something quick.

Another dragon-cat I'm doing. First is a sketch, second is the winner pose not finished.