Painter8 speed paintings from movie images

[digi]

Hey everyone!

Haven't been posting for a couple of days cuz i couldn't get my photoshop to work! how annoying....

anyways, while i was going through Photoshop withdrawl, I decided to sharpen my knowledge of Painter8 by doing a speed painting everyday.

I did five in total. ALL R FROM PHOTO REFERENCE from different movie photos i liked. none are paint overs or colour sampled from photo.

this was just a little excercise I've been doing that's been helping me improve my painting skills. It helped me quite a bit so i thought i'd share :)

as always, C&C is welcome.

this is the first one i did. pretty crappy but i thought ah whatever... i'll show the bad ones with the good ones.
(Gangs of New York - 1hr)
http://www.artofbob.com/images/dec28_gangsofny.jpg

[digi]

second one is from... i dunno... some J.Lopez flick. i think this was the worst painting outta the bunch. (1 hr)
http://www.artofbob.com/images/jan01.jpg

[digi]

third one - Mel Gibson from When We Were Soldiers (1hr)
http://www.artofbob.com/images/jan02.jpg

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forth one - from S.W.A.T.
now this was a coool flick! never has so many "cool" actors been in one movie. i loved it. (3 hrs)
http://www.artofbob.com/images/jan03.jpg

[digi]

fifth one - Tears from the Sun (3 1/2 hrs)
http://www.artofbob.com/images/jan03a.jpg

[digi]

here's the processes i went thru...
i have duel monitors so i put the picture in small monitor and paint in the main monitor
http://www.artofbob.com/images/melWIP.jpg
http://www.artofbob.com/images/swatWIP.jpg

[JFS]

Hehe. First thing I saw was the pic of the Female Pic-pocketeer from gangs of new york, and thought, "hey.. thats from gangs of new york" then I read the text right above it and went "yeah... heh"

Nice work :D

[heiesuke]

i adore the 1st one...well done

[-The Swift-]

great work, love the S.W.A.T!