WIP Wednesday - Aquarium

I've been working on this while my computer takes forever to reinstall absolutely everything. This is a combination of Photoshop and Painter - I'm using Photoshop to add the textures and I'm using Painter for the rest (mechanical pencil, cover pencil and soft blender stump).

This is my first time using textures. I still have a bit of work to do on the pebbles/rocks but I am so happy with how they look so far and I can't believe I haven't tried textures before. I'm going to add gravel to the left of the image because I think that blue patch at the bottom looks a bit too empty, so that's not in the image yet, but the fish are scribbled and the grass is scribbled. The grass will have to be drawn blade-by-blade because as you can see, the ends of my brushstokes aren't very grass-like.

Stone and granite textures came with an Imagine FX DVD and are from Vyonyx. I've used two textures for every pebble/rock.

Two equine WIPs.

EDIT: WIPs both look really pixelated, they aren't like that normally. Odd.

Two things I've been trying to work on. One is a painting from a screenshot of A Knight's Tale (I love that movie) and I started it a month or so ago, and the other is my attempt at painting a horse sim of mine from The Sims 3.

There's still a lot of work to do on the face, armour and bridle ... plus I need to quickly throw a background together. Most of the work I've done is on the eye and I don't think that's finished either. Painting a close-up image when I have a broken tablet was a horrible idea.

This is Sandy the simhorse. He's a Welsh Cob stallion with very weird colouring - I have no idea what to call his colour. Been a while since I bothered studying horses properly. It's pretty either way, and dappled (which I probably won't even try). Here's a screencap of him stuffing his face. It's dusk here but you can kinda see his colouring.

The painting is from a screencap as well. It's a really cute one of my simcat staring up at him. I'm not sure if I'll paint just Sandy or the cat as well because it's kinda tiny as it is. I'm making the image larger as I go so the end result will be decently sized, but while I'm working on basics it's not a giant image to work on. I prefer getting basics down on a smaller canvas so I can just sketch and scribble. At the moment it's been doubled in size once already and the WIP here is the current size.

Plenty more WIPs to come, nothing finished I'm afraid. Current work in progress is another painting for my mom and my blog isn't allowed pictures of that because she checks it. I'll try to get some more things up soon.