22/12/13

Xmas Card!

Merry Christmas to all and happy holidays to all followers and visitors out there. This is a little token of appreciation from yours truly.


10/12/13

Laisita goes for a walk


I'm trying to develop my own personal style by trying out all these different styles of rendering, painting, using brushes and all that I see other artists do. I'm a firm believer that one should start by copying the work of others and then petit à petit,  you gain a better understanding of what style you are more comfortable with and inspired. I hope I get there soon :)

7/12/13

Launching your kid into the air

I was inspired by a video on youtube and did this late at night. All I have to say is launching your kid into the air, looks tons of fun and cute  but not at all responsible.

10/11/13

Fish are the new prince charming

This painting was born as a simple sketch in my moleskine and after weeks if not months of procrastination. I sat down today and worked on the lights and shadows and the overall look, now I can finally say it's done. Since I'm still learning digital painting my process is well quite messy to say something, hopefully with time I'll find a way to work in a logical order and not try to go back and forward between layers. Here's a summary of my process.

First sketch

I started with the backgrounds and the colors.


Then I was getting a bit bored (I know) and I started to see how it would look like with lights. 

     Doing details even though I was not sure about the background being so plane and  simple. 

 Since the colors needed a more vivid look and put down an overlay layer.

And the final product...

nadia ronquillo

4/9/13

Inspiration




To vanquish my notorious drawing block I decided to look for inspiration in one of my favorite social network of the moment. Tumblr, yes I'm a total late bloomer when it comes to social medias. With that being said I currently enjoy the amount of photos regarding books, illustration, art, and why not silly gifs. This fast painting was done after looking at a similar photo of a boy holding a book. Nothing wrong with the boy I just prefer drawing little girls with books. 

30/6/13

Thumbnails

Recently I've been doing some background work for a 2D college project. Since this is my first time doing backgrounds I did some thumbnails to record the process and to see what can I do better next time. With that said, one of the things I can easily point out, is how much time I lose by not keeping and order while working on my layers. I just go back and forward too many times. And my lightning and shadowing should come after I'm done with my values.

25/5/13

My long expected header


Ever since I created the blog I've been wanting to come up with the perfect header, but whenever perfect comes to mind it turns into a perfection issue of mine, because it's not so easily resolved and can take moths or even years. Some might say is the artist way to cover up procrastination and I might agree to this in some level, because instead of making more art I'm just in a constant block ( it really feels like a neverending stuck.) So to put a stop to this drawing- block I went back to the design and painted all over again, it might not look as well as I thought it would. But I'm quite happy with the outcome which is something I have to start to get used to. How can I wish for my paintings to come up perfectly when I don't put the amount of work needed. (Now, I come to realize that this artblog has turn more into an artjournal, which I think is ok for the time being) With nothing else to add here is my header, enjoy.

21/4/13

new avatar

Just felt like it was time to update my avatar. Tried to Keep it simple by using just values, and going after a retro look.

 

14/4/13

Going Back...

Today I was going through some old files and I found this, one of my first attempts in digital painting that unfortunately I never got to render properly. So I put a texture for the background and arrange some of the colors. Not content with the results I got, I thought of repainting and redrawing it, now that I gained a bit more knowledge in PS. But with so many things to do and paintings to finish I decided to post it anyways so in the future I can compare both approaches.

7/4/13

Frog boy! (using curves)

It's been months since I started painting this one. Even after most of the color and lighting was done. I felt something was missing, the colors were to flat. Looking up some painting tutorials and some amazing artist who are nice enough to share with us some of their tricks. I found out how helpful curves, hue and saturation are to get your picture pops a bit. So today after some twiches and playing around with curves, hue and saturation I think it's actually ready.