Dark Elf Sorceress - Speedpainting

Final image: http://andantonius.deviantart.com/art/Dark-Elf-Sorceress-201159887
Actual painting time: 3 hours - Video at 30x speed
Tools: Corel Painter 11 with Wacom Cintiq 21UX
Music from freeplaymusic.com - Army Angels and Strike Eagle
http://andantonius.deviantart.com/

After a long school-induced hiatus, here's a new video!

I had an itch to paint some fantasy stuff since most of my time has been spent doing studies for school, and what better time to do so than spring break? Then since I haven't posted a video in forever and a half, it got recorded! Hopefully a few of you who subscribed after Dan's contest still give a crap about these, haha.

As usual with my videos, this isn't a prime example of my work, it was just a quick sketch to get some of the sparkles out of my system. It's not much of a marvel compositionally and the figure isn't the best, but I like how some of the rendering and markmaking came out. This was a great stress relief from the huge piles of homework too, so I'll try to do them every now and then and double up to make a video.

Enjoy, yo!

Category:

Howto & Style

Tags:

• andantonius
• dark
• elf
• sorceress
• speedpaint
• time-lapse
• painting
• drawing
• art
• magic
• fire
• elven
• mage
• spell
• caster

[Mrteachme34]

Absolutely incredible! What program are you using? It looks like Corel painter.

[Andantonius]

@Mrteachme34 Thanks very much! And yeah, I used Painter 11.

[killaspongebob666]

would it be possible for you to do some tutorials? because this is the kind of stuff i try and fail at creating a lot. (the anatomic body as well as the background)

[Andantonius]

@killaspongebob666 There are a few tutorials on my dA gallery, but most tutorials aren't gonna be a ton of use for things like that, it's just going to require a lot of practice to get good at. If you have trouble with anatomy and backgrounds, then study things to improve them; like anatomy obviously, perspective, composition, light & form, etc, and remember to study from reference. The big thing is practice and study, tutorials are just there to point you in the right direction.

[Nannirk]

Nice dark elf, but why the black bars around the video?

[Andantonius]

@Nannirk Ah yeah, sorry a bout that. I still haven't had a lot of experience with video editing and am pretty limited in editing programs, so I'm not sure why it scaled down the video or how to fix it. I'll look in to it though.

[GrindableUk]

god you are amazing. 702 views ? WOW you need to get noticed alot more !

[CupOSwankStudio]

extremely cool! I want to learn to "loosen up" and be more painterly. Yours is a very impressive example! Thanks for sharing! :)

[InnovationalFilms]

nice!

[Yessacmidnight]

How does a giant mass of ugly scribbles turn into THAT?

I mean, thats like literally something game designers would put on posters to advertise their videogames.

Thats freaking sweet.

[Nannirk]

@Andantonius I see. May just be the settings are at 4:3 instead of widescreen (16:9)