Apologies and new beginnings

I apologize for the lack of updates recently, I've been without a permanent place to live and thus my internet/scanner access hasn't been particularly reliable. However I'm now settled (for the next 6 months at least) and can begin getting back into some sort of art routine. There's also a great little art cafe around the corner from my new place (I'm typing from there now) that has free wi-fi access so I can at least begin to post some digital work as and when it happens.

Check back soon,

Dan

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Logo, a sketch, and a failure

A logo for my brothers tattoo shop, Electric Lady Tattoos

A sketch I quite liked that I may paint up (the dark girl)

And a failed illustration from the other week, really should have used a reference on that one.


I'm moving house in the next few days so will be without internet access for the immediate future, so no updates for a little while.
Peace

Dan

Progress, and a sketch

Been pushing this image a bit further, and also something I sketched up in front of the tv the other day. I'm not sure if I'll paint it up fully as the composition is very static but I think it has a certain charm. I guess we'll see!

I've got the next 8 portfolio images thumbnailed out, it's just a case of getting them drawn up and painted! Quite excited about what I may end up with.

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More studies and an illustration sketch!

This update does exactly what is says on the tin.






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New work in progress and some sketches

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More studies

Not particularly interesting, but they have to be done






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Few studies

Been more relaxed about updating recently, will get back on track now.
Here's a few studies to start off, and an image I was working on.





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The continuing adventures of the neverending story

Few more hours into the Neverending Story cover, still plenty to do, need to pop out some highlights and adjust the clouds/smoke.



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The master, and an update

Some more work on the book cover type image, and a study from the Notorious JSS (that's John Singer Sargent for all you art squares).





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The Beginning of the Neverending Story

A new portfolio piece I'm working on, I (again) tried not to overcomplicate the image, I'm going to let the colours and the textures in the fur create some interest and a contrast to the far smoother rendered boy (Atrayu). Then use the clouds to introduce another texture and soften the values slightly where need be. Still pretty early stages atm.



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Better late than never

Finished up that old wizard guy for the Character of the week challenge on ca.org. I didn't finish it in time for the challenge as other things came up but it's done for now. Could spend hours more on this but for what it is I'll call it done.
Bit different to what I normally do but the dramatic lighting was fun!



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father, my eagles

First up, some of the better animals and self-portraits from the last few days.

First, eagles!



Next up, me!
I painted this one really small and zoomed out to focus on the thumbnail and getting the values right.





Finally we have a sketch for this weeks CHOW (character of the week) over on conceptart.org.
It's a bit to illustrative I think, but I'm not sure if that's a bad thing? I need to add some more costume details and think of something to throw into the background.




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Father Time

First sketch for this weeks topic on ca.org 'Father Time', similar to the mother earth (Gaia) character, except he personifies time and death, not unlike the reaper.

There's still plenty to do detail wise and in terms of the costume, I'm also not sure If I like the position of the scythe. I do quite like th lighting on the hood/face area, and also the hourglass silhouette that makes up most of the image.




Tomorrow I'll be scanning some more animals and sp's


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More sketches

I've set myself the task of drawing a different animal everyday, and doing a self portrait everyday. Going to use these as an opportunity to experiment with medium and style a little bit, maybe stumble across something interesting in the process!

Yesterdays animal was rhino...




and the selfportrait was me playing around with shadow a bit, I think this worked quite well and I may try and do a similar thing but with more time and better/different materials.



About an hour on each, graphite on very cheap printer paper.



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Carebear wallpaper

Was looking through some older sketches earlier and stumbled across this carebear image, as well as a wallpaper I made from it at someones request. The wallpaper is available to download at my website ( www.danlambertart.com ) under the Process/Download section.



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Waves

Another new image, I've been finding recently that I keep coming up with new things and ideas I want to paint. But this is the 4th or 5th image I've started in the last few weeks and I've yet to finish one. I definitely need to start finishing things off.

Still a work in progress but I like the direction it's going, trying to be more intuitive about colour, and worry less about what things 'should' look like, and more about what will look good.



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edit, it's showing up at a lower saturation on blogger for some reason?

Lonely Ape

Quick sketch from this evening, photoshop over a pencil sketch.
Going to try and keep this one a bit looser, as it works pretty well just blocked in quickly like it is now I think. Idea came after finding the Ape on the Moon contemporary illustration website http://apeonthemoon.com/



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Some sketches and studies

A selection of sketches from my studies over the last few weeks, nothing too crazy, but the best of the bunch






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Update on the captain

Made a few compositional changes and added a few details, it really doesn't look different enough to justify the time spent on it. I need to rethink my workflow. Either way I think it's a definite step in the right direction




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Captain of the Sky Pirates

Based on this weeks Character of the week topic over on ConceptArt.org.
I'm taking it in more of a book cover direction as oppose to a straight character design though.

Still a work in progress (obviously)





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Samurai update

Worked on this one some more, began blocking in the colours. I was a little silly and got sidetracked by the head before I finished blocking in everything. After all that I'm still not sure if I'm happy with the face, but the character's coming along I think.



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"Timmy put down that.....sword?..."

Sketch for a new image, a kid who's constructed a Samurai costume from household objects. That's right, he's gone all Art Attack on yo' ass! Originally I sketched out just a kid wearing samurai armour, but I wanted it to have more character than that so went with the dress up idea.

There's a few perspective issues with the helmet and things I need to work out, but I like it so far.



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Wise man says...."Visit danlambertart.com"

Just a quick sketch from yesterday, it lacks contrast and the value pattern is rubbish, but had fun with the face.
The wise man says "Visit www.danlambertart.com"



So get to it!!!


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Girlzzzz

Few hours worth in photoshop, feeling pretty good about it as I'm not as comfortable with drawing females usually, especially 3/4 views.

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Jeff Simpson

Stumbled across this image today, love it! along with the rest of his work. Such a unique style

Check out his website http://www.surrealsushi.com

Some colour and some failure

Great new blog all about colour palettes of your favourite masters old and new! http://oilcolorpalettes.blogspot.com/. Check it out!

On a more personal note, I give you my first new image of my hardcore studying, and my first failure! If nothing else I have learned exactly what I need to work on, and that's basically everything!. I think considering I've never painted metal before the pan came out pretty good as far as I got. But basically I realised that I don't know anything about form, colour especially, even simple things like construction of the head. I have a lot to learn and thankfully plenty of time to do it. I think I'll start with a master study and some still lifes.

Till next time

Dan

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It begins!!!

Finally back and ready to get serious, keep an eye on www.danlambertart.com and http://danlambert-illustration.blogspot.com for constant updates on images, some interesting articles and other such things.

Peace

Dan

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Failure

Not really sure what I was thinking with this one, but yeah needless to say it didn't really go anywhere, back to the drawing board....literally!!!

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Sketches!!!

New sketches section added to the Gallery on my website! Check it out!
Will be updating with new sketches as they happen, and old ones as I find them, so check back regularly!

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Study study study

Studies!
Male portrait from my head, just trying to make sure I keep up with the studies and the application of the studies




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Yee Haww part 2

Another sketch, getting western!



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Britain's got Talent

Quick caricature sketch of Simon Cowell





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