A free version of these two characters of the movie “The Dark Knight”.
Photoshop and digital tablet.
Joker & The Dark Knight
Live Presentation in Taipei
On last June I was in Computex 2008 doing live performances. Computex is a huge technology trade show in Taiwan, in where a lot of brands expose their newest products. In this case, the brand “Genius KYE” (wich makes computer peripherals) invited me there to do a presentation and some illustrations with their digital tablets. They built a special section with three monitors and heavy sound in their booth to me and it was really, really cool. I did a lot of nice paintings (in real time) and a ”live speed painting” of a famous taiwanese girl, who was the main host in the shows. The media and a massive public enjoyed more than 3 days of live presentations.
Here is a video about those performances and you´ll see part of the process of the speedpainting, and of course, me doing it with the Genius digital tablet.
See more about the show clicking HERE.
SOLID SNAKE
This is my free version of “Solid Snake”, the main character from the video game “Metal Gear Solid”. All the process done in Photoshop with a digital tablet. It has about 10 layers and a couple of hours of working in the little details.
About speed painting art…
Welcome to my new website!
Before you take a look at my work, you should know what is a “Speed Painting”.
Obviously, there are many definitions of this kind of art, but actually on the Internet, Speed Paintings are known as a time-lapse video featuring the construction of an image. It is primarily a digital art form whereby the image is hand-drawn and rendered using a tablet and graphics editor such as Photoshop or Painter. The artist may use his imagination or take direct inspiration from a live scene, but will typically choose to recreate an image depicted in a photograph. Whilst the image is in production, every single action on the computer screen is automatically captured and compiled into a real-time video. That recording, which begins with a blank background and ends with the completed piece, then undergoes an editing process. The video is accelerated by a factor of between forty and sixty, components are added or removed and it is also given an appropriate soundtrack. The finished SpeedPainting, which may have taken the artist more than five hours altogether, will usually last little more than three and a half minutes – the average length of a song.
In few words: is the “Behind the Scenes” of an illustration.
