heres a thing Im playing around with. crits if you please

London Conceptart workshop!!

Hi everyone, as some of you might have heard, Julian Rick and me (Tim) vent to the Conceptart workshop in London. I just got home now. Lots of good stuff, and got to talk to some heros of mine. feel free to ask anything.

anyways, met lots of nice people there, and  I said I would do a post on how to get in touch with the group


you can add me on skype (dstrax) or facebook. my real name is Tim Holm.
or send me an email and Ill sort things out dstrax@gmail.com

due to the way blogger works you have to be added as a contributor to be able to post, but Its no problem.
so let me know if your interested. and Ill put your name\nickname and link it to your blog or website on the side of the blog

bloodsport 14 and 15

Bloodsport challenge: Guy from the future travels to the past and meets his companion

Another Collab - 4 rounds

--with Riley, Rick, and Victor

Self Portrait

T

Trying to at least get a portrait in every other day.

Talon Abraxas' Work

Hey Guys. thought this was pretty sweet. Not sure how much you guys dig surrealist painting, but there's a certain attitude I aspire to and though I'd share an inspirational artist I came across this week. His work is SICK!

http://www.tuttartpitturasculturapoesiamusica.com/2012/11/Talon-Abraxas.html

sci-fi mixed with a sneaking tribe person to make it interesting It needs some more rendering but I'm just gonne post it for now

Duel WIZARDRY!

Here's Tim and I's collabs from tonight! :P

Also, 
My brother-in-law just showed me this guy's (Trey Ratcliff) stuff and thought I'd share with you guys. --Pretty cool and might be fun for some reference.

http://stuckincustoms.smugmug.com/

True Blood fan

True Blood Portrait Series: Bill

Title:  True Blood Portrait Series: Bill

Date: February 3, 2013

Medium: Photoshop

Scale: Original is 1500px x 1950px

Notes:  The series of portraits did not start off with Bill, but he got lucky and placed in the front. Honestly, out of all the portraits, he seems to be the most anatomically correct. I hope that the slight contrast works well.

True Blood Portrait Series: Alcide

Title:  True Blood Portrait Series: Alcide

Date: February 1, 2013

Medium: Photoshop

Scale: Original is 1500px x 1950px

Notes:  Alcide I believe was the second of the portraits I did. I tried my best to make him as contrasty as possible, but I think the tones are still a little too subtle. He is up there with one of my favorite characters from the show though...

True Blood Portrait Series: Jessica

Title:  True Blood Portrait Series: Jessica

Date: February 2, 2013

Medium: Photoshop

Scale: Original is 1500px x 1950px

Notes:  She was a bit of a difficult character to render, because she is so pale there are only subtle variations in her skin tone.

True Blood Portrait Series: Jason

Title:  True Blood Portrait Series: Jason

Date: February 2, 2013

Medium: Photoshop

Scale: Original is 1500px x 1950px

Notes:  I think I went a bit overboard for Jason's hair, but he was actually pretty fun to paint. I think I could still go back in (as with all of them) and noodle for a bit to make the tones more smooth, but either way, it was exciting.

True Blood Portrait Series: Lafyette

Title:  True Blood Portrait Series: Lafyette

Date: February 1, 2013

Medium: Photoshop

Scale: Original is 1500px x 1950px

Notes:  I actually started with Lafyette. I made him look slightly younger than he actually is, but he was fun to do. I think I have a good time painting African Americans because they tend to have a nice middle to dark tone overall and it makes for an easier time to bring out the hard highlights. 

True Blood Portrait Series: Sam

Title:  True Blood Portrait Series: Sam

Date: February 4, 2013

Medium: Photoshop

Scale: Original is 1500px x 1950px

Notes:  This was the last one of the bunch, so it kind of had a rushed feeling to it. I was just ready to be done at that point. I powered through the bunch and just kept on truckin'. I've been told this one has the most emotion in his face of the bunch...

True Blood Portrait Series: Sookie

Title:  True Blood Portrait Series: Sookie

Date: February 4, 2013

Medium: Photoshop

Scale: Original is 1500px x 1950px

Notes:  This (in my opinion) looks the least of the original people of the bunch. I couldn't quite figure it out while I was painting... Sookie has some difference in the anatomy or something... <shrug>

True Blood Portrait Series: Tara

Title:  True Blood Portrait Series: Tara

Date: February 3, 2013

Medium: Photoshop

Scale: Original is 1500px x 1950px

Notes:  She looks a bit younger than she actually is. But the exciting thing was, this was my first time ever doing braids, so the texture was completely different than normal hair.

True Blood Portrait Series: "Normals"

Title:  True Blood Portrait Series: "Normals"

Date: February 1 - 4, 2013

Medium: Photoshop

True Blood Portrait Series: "Supes"

Title:  True Blood Portrait Series: "Supes"

Date: February 1 - 4, 2013

Medium: Photoshop

Digital Face Studies

Title:  Digital Face Studies

Date: January 31, 2013

Medium: Photoshop

Scale: Original is 3000px x 3000px

Notes:  Doing these studies is actually what started the whole crazy mess above. I was just doing face studies la-de-da, when suddenly I was like... "FACE FEST 2013!" And off I went on a tangent...

more colabs done with riley and my buddy lex 

collab with Tim

Doodle done by myself and the handsome Riley Wade

-Quick study before bed.

photostudy

Repo! The Genetic Opera 2

Title:  Repo! The Genetic Opera - Shiloh

Date: January 1 - 4 & 12 - 14, 2013

Medium: Photoshop

Scale: 14" x 9.25"

Notes:  This is all the way up to the final. I hope it looks good! Let me know if you have any crits / comments! 

And... Because I like making them... here's a gif of the whole thing!

More on my blog...

Photostudies I added a giant building in the second one. And two characters

Studies as Always...

 Facial Plane Study

Title:  Facial Plane Study

Date: December 17, 2012

Medium: Photoshop

Notes:  This was an attempt to take things that I learned from this semester and start to apply it to all my outside work. I think this is turning out pretty well so far... I might keep going, I might start a new one. Who knows? Either way, I think this method works interestingly, plus I finally get to bring back my contour drawing. YAY!!

 Grid Reproduction

Title:  Grid Reproduction

Date: November 12 - 19, 2012

Medium: Black Ink and Stick, White Acrylic

Scale: 22" x 30"

Notes:  Firstly, we had to create one mark (in my case it was that cross pattern) and then lay in highlights and low-lights according that that single mark. Secondly, we had to use a master (in this case William Whitaker) and try to reproduce it according to a grid. It is extremely difficult at times to FORCE a piece to work on a grid, but this was my finished result.

Applied Cezanne Study

Title:  Applied Cezanne Study

Date: December 3, 2012

Medium: Charcoal, Chalk, White Acrylic

Scale: 22" x 30"

Notes:  Working from observation, I was to create a piece that emphasized the light and shadow according to how Cezanne would have. Very loose gestural line-marks, large strokes, and paying close attention to the structure were of the greatest import during this piece. I am glad that my subject was so willing to sit there during the creation of this (Thank you madam!!!).

This and many more on mah blog!

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