Wow. Go baby naps. I got painting done!

I can hardly believe how quickly I made progress on these backgrounds. The babeh has had a few good naps and I got some work done!

4 backgrounds Left to Paint!

A long time ago I took a break from painting backgrounds since I basically felt like my entire life was painting backgrounds. I've got 4 bgs left to finish up now. I think that using Corel Painter really slowed me down... It's such a laggy program! But I love the brushes and so dealt with the extreme lag. (There are a few awful things about the layers window in Painter as well that make organising files tough.) Here is a screen capture of the 4 leftover bgs in Bridge:

Seeing the 4 of them at once is motivational. I like being able to see the big picture when I can, it helps.

More painting getting done!

Hey, so this week I actually found some time to dig in on painting backgrounds! I went a bit further with background 26 and then laid down some basic colour on 27 and 29. It's exciting to make progress!

Next I'll take 27 and 29 into Corel painter for a base texture layer. I love Corel's brushes. I think I'm going to bring each of these to completion in stages at the same time. That should help me stay consistent with style, colour and brushes.

Further Work in Progress on the Cellar Sequence Backgrounds

It's been another busy week! This past weekend involved a lot of chores and file cleaning. I did find some time to get some painting done on background 26 of the cellar sequence:

This image is super work in progress. I'm going to move the pickle jar. Currently the state this background is in is like the above, but with zoodles of perspective lines all over the place as I get the new jar figured out. I think the visual flow is going to work better with the new version. As I make progress with this one I've been saving it as new versions so that I can whip up a gif of the process.

Backgrounds - The Cellar (WIP)

Work in progress! I've been painting and drawing backgrounds. Got a trillion pickle jars left to draw.