davpea1

It has only been recently that I have turned my hand to portrait renderings. I use a wacom intuos tablet with an apple mac pro desktop with 5 gig of ram and 2 terrabytes of storage. I use a dual monitor setup and I am currently studying creative computing and working designs in college. I have always painted and sketched but it is only recently I have switched to digital.

I love using corel painter x and photoshop cs3 as they seem to work seemlessly between each other. All my images are rendered from a blank canvas and are built up slowly. I always try and start with a line drawing and block in value and texture before hitting it with colour. Then i may go over the image again tightening up the line work and re texuring the image etc. I look at artists such as Ryan Church, Dermot Power and Eric Tiemens and try and reconstruct their paintings. I always look at someone whos been successful in his or her profession and try to emulate what they have done.