Oil Portrait - Dark Skin

Here's another oil portrait, this assignment was to learn to paint darker skin tones, as they reflect light differently and will end up having different color variations than lighter skins.

Unfortunately due to all our other homework I didn't have a lot of time to invest in this, it's about 3 or 4 hours of work total, only 2 of which was painting. I experimented a bit with letting the shadow side of the face merge with the background, but didn't quite pull it off, it'll need some more experimenting, and the value will probably have to be lighter to pull it off realistically. Lots of fun overall though, gotta love dem oils!

Dark Elf Sorceress + Video!

Just a speedpainting done out of a need for some not-homework and fantasy sparkles, plus I got the Cataclysm soundtrack (which is soooo good) and it gave some srs inspiration. Due to Cataclysmness, my original plan was to do a Night Elf Mage, hence the purple skin, but I didn't really have any plan or reference for this so the armor ending up being more sinister and it turned in to a dark elf. That's what happens when you don't do thumbnails.

It's not the greatest composition and my figure drawing skills still need work, but for a quick sketch I'm pretty happy with it, and it was fun which was the main goal. I'mma try to do more of these quick paintings, maybe one every week or something just to avoid getting over-homeworked. Funtiems!

Also, here's a video of the process! Hope ya dig!