Steve McQueen - The king of cool

Saw a Tag Heuer watch advert with the iconic Steve McQueen in Le Mans as the main image.
I love that film, especially the opening sequence, no one can do silence like McQueen. In homage i produced this, tried to be really lose around the background and his overalls and focus tight in on his facial features.



and incase you have never seen it:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JlyQsWXrqA

And another one...

I got into this and did another one at night. Just a simple black and white, learning the basics of simple shading, suggestion and tonal contrasts again. Really need to do some sketches now rather than just sticking to photoshop.



Andy

Portrait with new PS brushes

Been trying out some new brushes with my Graphics Tablet and overlaying them on some really well shot imagery. Here is one i knocked up on my lunch break.



Andy

Matte Painting

I love how one inspiration can lead to another and after looking into the Madison Gregory style of portraits last week and firing up the old graphic tablet i started doing a lot of reading, and viewing of Matte Painting.
I found some really good resources out there on the web and found some brilliant reference imagery.
Just to dip my toe in the water i started out using some concept art that was created for Mirrors Edge 2 on the PS3.



Then armed with the rest of my imagery i set about destroying the radiant views of futuristic Tokyo and this is where i arrived.
I only spent a short while on it as i wanted it to be as sketchy and loose as possible. The idea was to create an evil overlords HQ in the middle of the destroyed city with a lone soldier keeping watch over the raised entrance.



Comments as always are welcome,

Andy

Madison Gregory: Update

So i had a play around with a few photo's last night, found some really good tutorials and mixed up some styles to create these:



This was a panoremic scene i took on my very first morning in iceland at sunrise. I really like this picture and have wanted to do something with it since i took it. The colours have not been tweaked in any way, i have just applied a canvas look and a chunky oil look to it.



This was trying to stick more with the classic look that Madison Gregory achieves. I found my model, Scarlett Johansson in this case and really muted the colours back, blurred out exterior features but focuses closely on the eyes, creating deep contrast and adding exaggerated colour to really lift the piece. Finally i added some loose sketchy lines using my graphics tablet to loosen the style up and move it away from a photographic image. I am really happy with how these have turned out and will be producing many more...I now just have to stop looking at pictures of Scarlett Johansson.



Thanks for looking,

Andy

Madison Gregory

Came across this website today while on my web travels.

www.madisongregoryfineart.com

It's been a while since i have painted, but i really like this use of oil's and immediately set about producing some photoshop variants of my own using some of my own images and some sourced on the internet.

I love the individual layers that are created with thick oil, it gives the very subtle and muted colours real depth.

I will be updating shortly with a few of my own efforts, although i havent attneded fine art college like this man so dont expect to much!



Andy

Gran Turismo 5 Photomode

I got Gran Turismo 5 for christmas and have been really enjoying the photo mode on it.

It really teaches you a lot about control of a high end camera, even if its virtual. There are full controls of aperture, shutter speed, light levels and filters. Now i need to apply this to my real life photography. I took a lot of photos when i went to see the Le Mans 24 Hours, and motorsport photography is not easy at all. I think i will stick to GT5 for now.

Here is a sample shot of a Ford Focus, modelled on my own!



Andy