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I thought it would be fun to put an impressionist spin on a digital painting.

As always... time to just keep on powering more down!

Title: Game of Thrones - Season 1, Episode 1 (Stark's Dilemma) (Work in Progress)
Date: June 17 - 24, 2014
Medium: Photoshop CS6
Scale: Original is 12.8" x 7.8"

Notes: I really want to do a study for every episode, so I've been taking screen caps of what I would consider to be a 'pinnacle' moment of each episode. I'm really behind as far as the work goes, but I love this show so damn much that I just want to keep pushing on my studies for these. They are some great examples of dynamic lighting, crazy scenes, and even awesome character design. Either way... more to come on these.

Title: Tuesday: Anatomy - Chests

Date: June 3 & 17, 2014
Medium: Photoshop CS6

Title: Wednesday: Anatomy - Arms

Date: June 18, 2014
Medium: Photoshop CS6

Original ref: http://faestock.deviantart.com/

Date: May 28, 2014
Medium: Photoshop CS6

Notes: I'm trying to start working on a 'what-if' hypothetical project. It will consist of a bunch of different character designs based on the generic character archetypes that are in MMOs. This is of course the first of many... and it is also a bit of a WIP still. Title: WIPs

Date: Varies
Medium: Photoshop CS3, CS6
Scale: Each 'image' varies in scale.


Notes: I just want to get all caught up for the time that I've been away... just some half-starts and studies.

Title: 5-19-2014 Monday: Anatomy - Heads

Date: May 16 & 19, 2014
Medium: Photoshop CS3

Title: Applied Studies - The Pest Controller

Date: May 13 - 21, 2014
Medium: Photoshop CS3

Notes: Over on the Permanoobs forum they are doing character of the weeks and things, similar to old conceptart ones. Well, this week (I think the deadline already popped) was The Pest Controller. Here's my start just for fun. Still working on different things, so I think I missed the deadline, but I would still like to work on it.

Title: 5-16-2014 Friday: Anatomy - Backs

Date: May 9 & 16, 2014
Medium: Photoshop CS3

Title: 5-15-2014 Friday: Anatomy - Legs

Date: May 15, 2014
Medium: Photoshop CS3

Title: Head for a Day

Medium: Photoshop CS3

Notes: I don't really consider these finals so much as just sketches... I need to make a more realized attempt this week. Anyway... more soon.

Title: 5-13-2014 Tuesday: Anatomy - Chests

Date: May 13, 2014
Medium: Photoshop CS3

Title: 5-14-2014 Wednesday: Anatomy - Hands

Date: May 8 & 13, 2014
Medium: Photoshop CS3

Title: Applied Studies - The Pest Controller

Date: May 13 & 14, 2014
Medium: Photoshop CS3

Notes: Over on the Permanoobs forum they are doing character of the weeks and things, similar to old conceptart ones. Well, this week (I think the deadline already popped) was The Pest Controller. Here's my start just for fun.

Title: 30-Minutes of Poses 2

Date: May 9, 2014
Medium: Photoshop CS3

Title: Thursday: Anatomy - Backs

Date: May 9, 2014
Medium: Photoshop CS3

Title: Friday: Still-Life with Materials

Date: May 9, 2014
Medium: Photoshop CS3

Scale: Original is 1648px x 2412px

Notes: On Friday I want to make a still-life and fill it with different materials. Of course painting from life is always the best way to go. I just kind of tossed a cloth down and put my razor down because it had metal and plastic and lights. And was all searching around the room for something else interesting. Ashley just looks over grabs a potted plant and just slams it down and then smiles back at me. I was all like... PERFECT! And here's the results...

Title: 30-Minutes of Poses

Date: May 8, 2014
Medium: Photoshop CS3

Notes: I'm going to be using these as warm-ups all summer long. Thirty minutes of what I would consider, pre-workouts. Every time I'm thinking of doing any art, this is what I will start with.

Title: Thursday: Drapery Study

Date: May 8, 2014
Medium: Photoshop CS3

Scale: Original is 1600px x 964px

Notes: Initially this was going to be a full render of a character. But I only wanted to actually be a drapery study. So I thought about what Ashley tells me: 

Wise words... and hilariously enough, ones that I'd never considered.

Ref: http://mizzd-stock.deviantart.com/art/Pirates-The-Fortune-Teller-1-56151411

Title: Thursday: Anatomy - Hands

Date: May 8, 2014
Medium: Photoshop CS3

Notes: Also everyday I will be playing with a different part of the anatomy. Thursday's was hands.

Ref: http://daestock.deviantart.com/

Title: 3D Illusttration: Gears

Medium: Mixed Media

Notes: For the final 3D illustration project we were allowed to work in teams and had to create more-or-less a scene and storyboard.

I looked to my right immediately and there was instantly like a silent agreement between Colton, Rob, and I. So off we went, just throwing around suggestions and different ideas. I think somewhere in there I was like, "Let's do a self-portrait of ourselves as adventurers trying to break into a dungeon." <we all shook our head pretty quickly to that> So we kept scribbling and searching for ideas, and I just kinda toss out this idea of, "Hey... what if we were to do robots. DRUNK ROBOTS!" <again, we all shook our head and kind of had a laugh> There was a silence over us for a few minutes. I think there was a certain hive mind brewing for a minute about this. And then I think it was Rob that looked over and was just like, "Well... what if we did Wall-E as a wanted poster.", to which I responded, "Yeah, he would be wanted for Grand Theft because he's constantly putting shit in that little drawer of his!" <laughter ensues> And literally from that moment, the project's scope just grew and grew. Looking back, I wonder if this project is a testament to see just how far and ridiculous we can go with a project.

Regardless, it was incredibly fun! I also think that after the fact, Rob looked at us and was like... I think I want to make an entire city of this stuff! Potential for future team-projects? We shall see...

So here's the breakdown of who did what:

Mat Kaminski - passed out drunkard robot,  bar stools, and all the advertisements and posters on the wall.

Colton Beretta - the bartender and all the accessories to the bar - cups, bottles, mugs.

Rob McElhaney - "wrestler bot", and the bar itself, and gears logo.

Title: 'Quick' Studies

Date: March 24 - 31, 2014
Medium: Graphite, Photoshop CS3

Scale: Varies

Notes: A compilation of things that I've been up to for a little bit. Mainly just trying to make sure that I don't get rusty in any specific area. So this is just a few tests of different things over the past few days. I want to crank out a ton more stuff, but there are big projects in the works.

Title: 'Zoodles

Medium: Graphite, Brush and Ink

Scale: Each 'page' is 9" x 12"

Notes: Every week on Wednesday, during lunch the illustration department at MCA goes over to the zoo and just sketches away. I think every time I go I get a little faster, a little more experimental, a little more... something. If nothing else, it's just great to get out of the school and away from everything and just sketch my ass off.

It's a bit more therapeutic than anything and if nothing else... it gets exposure to my art to all the passer-byers. Either way, it's a fun thing to do and I highly recommend it!

Title: Black Magic Woman
Date: February 14, 2013
Medium: Photoshop CS3

Scale: Original image is 1224px x 1632px

Notes: Continuing on attempting that oil painting style with my digitals. 

I tried some new stuff in terms of using different brushes in different areas to see how that would change things. I don't know why I love portraits so much. I should break away from them for a bit maybe and do some animals or something... Unfortunately for the oil paintings that I'm working on, since I'm not comfortable with the materials, I'm working with comfortable subject matter.

Anyway... more soon!

Title: Mysterious Woman
Date: February 10, 2013
Medium: Photoshop CS3

Scale: Original image is 1428px x 1800px

Notes: I've been watching more oil painting demos and then attempting to apply them to my photo studies that I do digitally. This is my newest attempt. Of course I think it helps a ton to get read to while working. 

On a side note, I've finally braved it. I have more work to do on it, but I've started to officially oil paint!

I'll post that later when I'm satisfied with it...

Here's the tutorial for this one. As always, leave a comment if you need any clarification or if you want a better tutorial.

Other than that do Master Studies. Look to old masters like these:

http://greatilluminators.blogspot.com/

and try your damndest to copy them.

OH and I almost forgot… the brushes.

http://matkaminski.blogspot.com/2013/10/typical-brushes-that-i-use.html

also… http://bluefley.blogspot.com/2013/11/how-to-create-my-square-brush.html

Hopefully this will help someone… Happy painting. If you have any questions or whichever, you can always ask. I’ll try to respond as timely as possible :)

OH! Lastly… I followed this for awhile. It’s a bit intense, but it has a supply list and all that if you want to follow it exactly but that’s up to you.

http://matkaminski.blogspot.com/2012/05/my-summer-schedule.html

It is a little intense though…

But yeah... I can't update without art... so here you go!



Title: Green-Haired Madam
Date: January 23 & 24, 2013
Medium: Photoshop CS3
Scale: Original is 2048px x 1326px

Notes: So this was an experiment really in field of vision painting. I was trying to see if I could make focal areas based on the rendered / looseness of the area of the painting. I think it came out okay, but I really need to play with that smudge tool a bunch more. It doesn't look as purposeful as I would have liked. Either way, I think the girl rendered out decently though.

As usual with my painting, I try to keep with as big of a brush for as long as I can, so initially this was painted at 25% zoom, and then as I painted I would get closer and closer rendering the focal points as much as possible. For example, her face and hands were painted at 100%.

And yet again, a tutorial gif... I hope this helps someone. Any questions or if you need anything clarified, toss up a comment.