(Up-dated 5-10-06) SPEED PAINTING - I will try to add a pg every week

[edarttogo]

As a freelance artist… one of the first questions I get is how fast can I work and what level of quality do they get at that speed. I never saved or simply went over the speed part of the painting so I didn’t have examples for my potential clients.

I decided to paint one every week. Hope you like them.


http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y75/edarttogo/Pg3Speedtest3.jpg

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y75/edarttogo/speedtest3.jpg

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y75/edarttogo/speedtest5minp.jpg

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y75/edarttogo/Pg1Speedtest3hrs.jpg


My website http://edarttogo.com/

[blanquish]

at that speed, youre doing great
good depth

[Doomgriever]

nice. looking forward for next weeks updates :)

[Fl3wk]

You still haven't told us how long it took each painting :P Good stuff.

Just seen the five minutes on the face, thats great for that speed. Are all 5 minutes?

[rWDrk]

Wow love the last one how long did that take?
And top pic is great 2 man.

Good idea to train speed with kwalitie.
But what do you think is more important for a beginner to train first?
Speed ore kwalitie.

Ore do you learn sooo much form speed painting that it is important to speed paint a lot ??

Well cheers and i am going to check out you page

[Fl3wk]

Just speed paint once a day, or like this guy, twice a week.

[Bell]

You've got some great stuff on your site too, those sculptures are incredible.

[rWDrk]

Wow great websit.
I really love the details on the one of your avatar!
And love the "TITAN" piece nice nice nice nice.
You should make a tutorial that would really help a lot off people at CA.
Ore maybe tell us something about your texture use?

Cheers R3M

[tgfx]

wow is all i can say. I mean if u can do that face in 5 min your gonna be great. I sent you an email.

[edarttogo]

:ae: :ag:


Thanks to blanquish

Im looking foward to it my self Doomgriever


Sorry you are-right.

First pg was 3.5 hours

Second pg was 10 min for the head and another 10 min for the different looks. 20 min total.

Third pg was 5 min

Forth pg was 3 hours

I wish they were all 5 min

Wow love the last one how long did that take?
And top pic is great 2 man.

Good idea to train speed with kwalitie.
But what do you think is more important for a beginner to train first?
Speed ore kwalitie.

Ore do you learn sooo much form speed painting that it is important to speed paint a lot ??

Well cheers and i am going to check out you page
Maybe this is a stupid question but what is kwalitie

But I think I know what your saying …

As an Art Teacher I teach the basics first… design, composition, story, etc. then one should sketch 80% of the time, 20% is used to work on you weakest point and some color. As you get more control you can now start to speed up.

Do not use photos reference and try to speed up like that it wont work you will rely on it to much.

I will see if a tutolial is posible.

tgfx i will email you back tonight.

thank you all

[rWDrk]

:bashful: hahaha i mean quality :bashful:
sorry iam dutch :P haha
but you no waht i mean :P

Yeah a tutorial would be very nice. I want to learn more about texture.

cheers R3M

[edarttogo]

hahaha i mean quality
sorry iam dutch haha
but you no waht i mean

Yeah a tutorial would be very nice. I want to learn more about texture.

cheers R3M

lol got it ... well hope i answered the question.

[blah blah]

I'm sorry to say this, but the female, she is seriously ugly!
I'm thinking it's intentional by looking at your website.
Well good luck and hope to see updates soon!

[artiphats]

Great stuff, I'm also working on painting faster in PS and Painter, at the moment all my concentration is on refining my pencil work though. Speaking of which I seriously need to get a page of my own going.

But enough about me, can't wait to see more of your speed work.

[supersalenco]

Hi . Hola , por tu name deduzco que habals español . He visto tu página y es la ostia , y tus speedp paintings también , estaría guapo que pusieras cuanto tarads en cada dibujo , ya vi que en la cara tardastes 5 min , está bastante bien sí.

Tu dibujo de "titan" está muy bien . Voy a hacer un intento de doblaje de lo que te he dicho , aunque no escribo muy bien el inglés.

HI , I deduced for your name that you are Spanish talking (:)). I have seen your web and is great . Yours speeds paintings too . Should be great that you write the time that you spend to finish the speed drawings .

Your draw "Titan" is impressive .

:yayca: see you. nos vemos.

[Rascar Capac]

hey there Ed - good to see you in here again..that last creature piece is pretty sick...looking forward to your updates.

-Hovig

[edarttogo]

I'm sorry to say this, but the female, she is seriously ugly!
I'm thinking it's intentional by looking at your website.
Well good luck and hope to see updates soon!

yeaaaa... My thought process was to draw a possessed women some thing like a zombie.

[edarttogo]

Great stuff, I'm also working on painting faster in PS and Painter, at the moment all my concentration is on refining my pencil work though. Speaking of which I seriously need to get a page of my own going.

But enough about me, can't wait to see more of your speed work.


Thanks and good luck with your speed art

[edarttogo]

Hi . Hola , por tu name deduzco que habals español . He visto tu página y es la ostia , y tus speedp paintings también , estaría guapo que pusieras cuanto tarads en cada dibujo , ya vi que en la cara tardastes 5 min , está bastante bien sí.

Tu dibujo de "titan" está muy bien . Voy a hacer un intento de doblaje de lo que te he dicho , aunque no escribo muy bien el inglés.

HI , I deduced for your name that you are Spanish talking (:)). I have seen your web and is great . Yours speeds paintings too . Should be great that you write the time that you spend to finish the speed drawings .

Your draw "Titan" is impressive .

:yayca: see you. nos vemos.

Yes I can understand Spanish but my English is stronger




And the titan painting got an award and will be displayed at E3expo at the Into the Pixel gallery here is the invite to it and the link. I am putting up a thead for it.

http://www.intothepixel.com/view-art.php?year=2006

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y75/edarttogo/2006_ITP_AT_E3_INVITE.jpg

Note that the gallery space is in a public area (i.e. no E3Expo ticket is required)

[edarttogo]

hey there Ed - good to see you in here again..that last creature piece is pretty sick...looking forward to your updates.

-Hovig

Sup Hovig you the man

I will check out the website. hey call me any time.

[rWDrk]

I see that you used Illustrator at the TITAN piece? But what did you make with it? Did you use it to set up the main colors ore something ?
Dont know if this is a stupid quostion":P


cheeers R3M

[Elnady]

Nice concepts
Keep it up

[edarttogo]

I see that you used Illustrator at the TITAN piece? But what did you make with it? Did you use it to set up the main colors ore something ?
Dont know if this is a stupid quostion":P


cheeers R3M



Not a stupid question… I used it for quick compositions and fast color keying its not something I recommend. You can do it on PScs2 now.

[lwjacob]

In this kind of job, it's hard to do so many without a good time spared.
I wish I could know more ways to be faster. I usually take one week in one simple art, even having the combo: Adobe Photoshop Cs2 + Wacom Tablet Intuos 3 9x12

[edarttogo]

In this kind of job, it's hard to do so many without a good time spared.
I wish I could know more ways to be faster. I usually take one week in one simple art, even having the combo: Adobe Photoshop Cs2 + Wacom Tablet Intuos 3 9x12


well i do use the wacom Cintiq 21ux it makes me fast but knowing the simple stuff like a sense of space and form fell of weight and anatomy well you know the basics.... that makes me a lot faster.

[Carl Dobsky]

Wow! There's so much speed painting out there! It's really hard to keep up with it all. So I've dedided that each week I'm going to start Speed Viewing paintings. I looked for a whole second at this.

It's about quality vs. quantity. And that's my two cents.

[rasdasa]

Your website has some very fres stuff, nice sculputres. And that final piece above has an excellent feeling of weight, gesture, and atmosphere.
congrats on titan, by the way.

ras

[edarttogo]

her is this weeks

3 hours

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y75/edarttogo/2006_INVITE.jpg

let me know what you think

Eduardo Gonzalez
www.edarttogo.com