Hello,
I thought I would write a quick message to everybody about my paintings, specifically Speed Paintings, I get asked many questions about them and I thought the best way to attend to this is give you some idea about how I classify my work – whether it is a quick sketch thru to a full illustration.
Anyway, I would class a “Sketch” as something I create in under 15-20 minutes, I do not publish sketches, mostly as they are iterative and they also tend to be difficult to read as they are ideation phase images. Also, I tend to do most my sketching in my AD role, which I cannot show anyway.
A “SPEED PAINTING” is something I would complete, for the most part, within 120 minutes; the timescale is important as I try to stop if I get to this point (or take the image further – which is therefore no longer a SP). When creating an SP, I might on the odd occasion use a little part of a photo or something else as a starting point to work out from (this would be less than 20% of the final image real estate). This can be quite helpful (a bit like drawing lines all over a clean canvas) in loosening me up quickly if I do not have anything specific in mind, important when time is of the essence. With a speed painting, I normally paint something I really want – or at least something I have a strong in my head about, for the same time based reasons, I can’t be messing about thinking when I should be painting!
A “Concept” would come in at anywhere between 3-12 hours work normally. There has been a lot more thought into the composition of a concept piece – maybe even a couple of sketches before it is started. However, I would not normally finalise all the details in a concept, rather try to impress the details upon the viewer with roughish brush strokes. Concept work makes up much of my paint time at work – although I only get about 25% of my time at work to paint. My concept images are normally used as “Key pieces” to underline the final look and feel for an area or idea. Concept images are normally about 3-4k largest dimension. “The Room, Fire Caves” etc come in this category.
A “Full Illustration” would be me working up an idea to the best of my ability and, assuming I do not tire of the image during creation (which I do a lot) the details are much more formed and the resolution is much higher (for print use for instance). 6-7k largest dimension would be the resolution I work at. “Nimbus, Prometheus, Stormbringer” all come into this category. I only really tend to do this for my VisionAfar site work, so not that often at the minute.
I hope this helps people understand what I am talking about when I speak of the type of image something is.
Best,
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