Yesterday’s daily experiments. Headspace a bit fucked then, less so today.
All strictly ArtRage 3. Roller, palette knife, and eraser tools. Layer play.
15min.
10min.
17min.
15min.
13min. There always seems to be a least favorite for me in these batches. This happens to be the one for this batch.
Another Daily/Five exercise, despite running at 60% normal system RAM (hooray video card RAM), and having regular ArtRage crashes when I do too much at once. All strictly ArtRage, all started without intentional subject matter.
45min.
1hr.
30min.
40min.
30ish min. No clue what the fuck this is. Don’t like it, but as stated previously, it’s good to show work we don’t like on occasion as well.
I’m having a not-so-stellar morning, so I’m keeping my words brief (you may all breathe a sigh of relief now).
Did something different yesterday. Decided to mash-up my “daily” piece with my old “fives” exercise. So, you get 5 pieces for the daily, but without the 5min restriction. All of the following were done strictly in ArtRage 3 Studio Pro, using just the fill, paint roller, palette knife, and eraser tools (the only exception being the sig with the ink pen). Past that, it was an exercise in layer work and manipulation. Not were started with any intended subject. Each piece can be clicked for the full-size version.
8 minutes.
15-17 minutes.
50 minutes.
20 minutes. Don’t really care for this one, but I think it’s as important to share the pieces that we don’t care for as it is to do so with the ones we do, on occasion.
25 minutes.
I’ll leave the commentary to you guys– having just aborted a piece of bad RAM from my system after troubleshooting why my computer was insta-crashing, my brain is fried. Trade off? Functional system, but I’ve gone from 2.5Gig to 1.5Gig of RAM. At least RAM is cheap… well, for a 5+yo motherboard, that is… LOL.
Today’s Daily ArtRage exercise, roughly 35-40 minutes.
Speaking of ArtRage, here’s a thread I just found discussing how to use ArtRage 3 Studio Pro to recreate Photoshop Brushes to some extent, for those who might find that of interest.
Yesterday’s daily piece:
Playing around with some new techniques in ArtRage 3. Roughly 2hrs. 5-6 minutes of touch ups in Photoshop CS4 afterwards (minor layer filtering, a bit of brush use for air contours and ambient cloud lighting).
What is it? I don’t know. Something mechanical, flying through the air. The rest is up to your imagination.