Wild Africa - Speed Painting - Edward McEvenue

Completed another speed painting. This one took me around 24 hours using photoshop.

The music can be downloaded free here:
https://www.facebook.com/edwardmceven...

For more of my art visit:
http://www.edstudios.ca

Credit: Thank you to Nick Brandt for the reference photograph. His website can be found here:
http://www.nickbrandt.com/Image.cfm?n...

• Category

  Film & Animation

[ObjSolid]

regardless of whether it's considered "art" or not, it takes a lot of technical skill to replicate something that well, and it makes for great practice for original paintings

[Mario Gonzalez]

Lol oh reddit. He used a grid. Plus, If you look closely, you can see where he used actual artist techniques to get the details. If he was tracing, he would have gone straight for the details.just sayin.

[mstfam]

are you freakin kiddin me i came here to get ideas

how the f@*k should i do that ??

wish one day i can draw like you

[AmberJFMeZoo]

Okay, i got a circle, whats the next step again? @~@;

[Mark Domingues]

That was amazing Edward! Always a wicked time watching these and listening to your music! :D I got a video from my work I got to get you to edit one day you arent to busy. Talk to you soon buddy!

[Ilja Vladimirovitsj]

this is really good, why all the dislikes?

[SealTeam1]

Either way I could never pull this off, but I have the artistic ability of an unborn baby.

[Michael Hudson]

This is fantastic! Although it uses a photograph as a reference, the tonal layering is awesome. Keep up the good work man!

For any nay-sayers: If it's not trash to learn a song on guitar by using tabs, then why is it trash to use a photo as a reference to paint something?

[xDeathCastx]

do you not see the brush stokes he doing manually by hand with a tablet? thats the same exact method as i said in my previous comment about a piece of tracing paper and a picture. There is no copy and pasting here. Yes it is photoshop, but do you think you could have the exact same final product that you see here? the answer is no. Not unless you have the skill to recreate something like that, even with the picture literally sitting one layer beneath the canvas you are drawing on.