Studies of Michael Loos

Another Week goes by, here are the things I've done these past 6 Days, minus another Cover in progress, I'll post next week. Still want to work on it a few more days. So far so good. I think its time to sit down and decide on a technique to push, so i finish more work faster... A few of my instructors still confuse me, but i'll just keep doing what i do. Their critique is usually useful once i understand what they mean and how to implement it into my approach. The Time is getting close where I have to start sketching for my diploma or it wont turn out as planned. I feel my work benefits greatly from the new schedule(I get up at 6am, go to bed at about 10:30pm), plus I'm feeling more happy and healthy with it, too. So here they come, four studies, done right in the Morning. #1 #2 #3 #4 The ref for them is all taken from mjranum-stock . On the Third one I failed, because I overslept a bit. There are shortcomings within all of them though. I see some of them too. Person...

You may find the 'blabla' part below :) 2h doodling in class while teachers babble about stuff ( well i drew this more on the side ;) ). huh? damn these random awesome parts 1h oil on acryliced canvas 2hrs Yea so there it is. The holidays are finally over and so that powerful oppression of loneliness got finally wiped away... All the doubts, that put u down, when you shut yourself out of everything else to force yourself to work... That doesn't work somehow. When I came back to one of my illustration teachers the first thing he said was. "Oh... You got better again." That was kind of nice, because that killed some of the doubts. Well now they just seem like a positiv aspect to help me grow. I know that I have to change some things to improve further and because I hate my stuff a lot right now, that just means, that i have to terminate the things that bug me about my work. It's also a good thing because I know I'm doing something wrong, even in my better pi...

Here are some thoughts about focusing time. "Yea this really is a great topic! Personally I believe that many more people could make a living of art, but are to afraid to compete with the pros. Fear is the path to the dark side, fellas! Rise and shine in the glory of hard work and your pursuit of happiness. hrr hrrm :D I don't know if I'm the only one but I couldn't draw and paint 16+ hours a day, at least I can't right now. Yes those guys who do are the Rockstars of the industry, but that does not mean you need to be one of them to be happy. Yes If you want to be very good you have to do a lot of hard work, but I believe you have to have some kind of balance too.  I learned this the hard way... RSI ... learned to live and work with it. I believe it is very good to be an enthusiastic person, with passion for many things that come across you on your life's journey. There are so many beautiful things... How much work is it f.e. to read NationalGeographic once in ...

Direct Painting this is what i do... Screw sketching x) Well look whos talking... because i failed the sketch, he is cross eyed now, gotta fix that. He was done for illustration class, We're currently doing Comic-book or Graphic-Novel Covers and this is gonna be one of mine :) ref here now 22 Animals and 3 and a half Covers to go x) Well here come some more sketchy real life things. ref as in post before Have a greate one.

 Its about Time... ref here Spontaneous  (wanted to do a little monkey with elephant ears... then I noticed  he just looks very familiar. Could he be a character from this amazing Science-Fantasy-space-opera that revolutionized the Film-industry? ) first of a larger animal series to come (need to do 24 Animals for a class asignment)  Wip but wont finish it i guess Happy Holidays People ^^ regards, Mitch

123 Hi guys. Yesterday was amazing. The legionnaire is still not finished. Will have to go back up there on Monday and try it. However I started something. A little experiment. My illustration class teacher showed us some of the guys who revolutionized comics in the ninety's(Ashley Wood, Simon Bisley and some others) and I was so inspired, that I had to try some new techniques, combining things i know with some new ideas. Here is the workflow. This was so much fun!!! I'll keep doing this I think. This is supposed to be a cover for project from illustration-class. The transparent red color mixed with turpentine felt surprisingly marker-like. Used Pentel Color Brush and Pilot O.4 for the sketch and then went over it with oils. Used only turpentine and  linseed oil as medium. The pre sketches for this, can be found in the previous blogpost here And well I'ts not completely finished yet, I'll have to retouch it a little bit in PS to make the edges nic...