Ognjen Sporin

Some Sketching from Life

Some of them are quite crappy but I've learnt to see that almost as a step when you try to relax, first you knock out a couple crappy ones and then they get better again

Study and Spitpaint

I'll be trying to study more scenes/interiors because that's what I'm trying to really get better at - will post WIPS as well

Also doing some spitpaints, here's one I liked, might make timelapse vids of those also!

Spirit Bridge Work in Progress

The painting's nearly done, haven't rendered the water yet. I tried to have more strong, simple shapes in the composition and hold back on rendering details, but focus on the bigger read 

Bounce Light and Shadows

The color of the shadow is determined by the environment. 

The environment consists of different light sources. These light sources can be objects from which the primary source is bounced, and also secondary light sources. 

Also added some traditional drawings, gotta keep doing those! 

Figure Studies

Trying to focus more on foreshortening!

Figure Drawing

Daily drawing studies with a couple of tips, don't forget to cast shadows of limbs on other limbs and the torso, it makes the whole thing much more believable and gives it dimension 

B/W Figure Study Process

Starting with simple and big and moving into more precise 

Concept Art

Face concepts for Esroniet, a Beyond Skyrim mod. These are the Esri, the main race in Esroniet. They are physiologically supposed to be a mix between Thai and Arab traits.

Figure Studies + Process

Daily studies and a painting which i don't really like. I'll definitely be doing more figure (especially female) painting studies and posting them along with the process. 

Figure Studies Process

Done some digital studies today!

Expressions

The main takeaway from these: 

The most important principle in expressions is the action, which  creates stretching and pinching. 

Whenever one thing stretches, another pinches (the same thing that happens with the figure). For example, when the forehead muscles contract, they shorten (muscles can only shorten), causing the wrinkling ...

Study Process and Reflection

Reflections tend to align themselves in a curving band along the face, look for this pattern!

More Cute but Deadly Process

I was unhappy with the foreground dude and decided to redo him altogether because freestyle painting without a concrete drawing wasn't working out 

Also added a PSD with all the layers I had before merging them together 

Portrait Study Process

Another portrait study started as a traditional drawing and rendered over that, and some drapery studies, more of the same stuff

Cute but Deadly Work in Progress

Here are some progress shots of a painting for Proko's challenge!

Gorloc PSD

The photoshop file for a Hearthstone card I did for Hearthstone Art Contest 

Tropical Island Study

A little study for a new illustration along with a process shot and some tips on cast shadow color. 

Things to keep in mind:

When an object that's far away casts a shadow, the shadow is filled with ambient light - in this case, it becomes extremely cyan. If the object is close to the ground where it's projecting it's shadow, the shadow doesn't catch as much ambient light - that...

Creepy Old Dude Study Process

With this study I had an initial traditional drawing that was pretty precise, I liquified it a bit to get a better likeness and shapes, turned it to multiply and then painted on a layer under it until I merged them together and rendered to a finish.

Expression studies

A few studies for a new painting

Whatever kind of complex minor forms created by the expression, always have a firm construction of the big features beforehand, that way you can confidently control the (a)symmetry and add the nuances of the expression without ruining the overall form. For an example of this done badly, look at the face on the right. I focused too much on the way the upper...

Hearthstone Card WIP

So i started a new card, a Gorloc! With this one the process is a lot more step-based - did 4 smaller sketches, picked one, did fairly finished lineart, filled in the flat colors and added light and shadow on separate multiply, overlay and screen layers. When I start rendering, I'm gonna flatten all those layers and just keep the character and background, this way I can paint more freely.

Hearthstone Card WIP

Here's some progress shots of a hearthstone card for Blizzard's competition, I tried to go for a more organic workflow but I hadn't planned the composition well enough so I don't like him enough to finish him - he wouldn't read very well as a small card with his head being so tiny and rim-lit :c 

The moral of the story is - if you're going to work freely and organically, be sure to h...

More Drapery Studying

Probably will do a portrait or some figures tomorrow, but hopefully this is useful as well!

More Drapery Studying

Working on drapery more with the same process, need to accumulate a great volume of studying to really become better and enrich the visual library!

Drapery Study Process

More drapery studies, as always, going from the figure construction -> clothing gesture -> clothing forms -> shadows and rendering 

Inking drapery

A shirt study done from reference, trying to create visual flow with hatching. When shading with line, all the same principles of drapery drawing apply, but on top of that your lines create not only shadow and form, but also visual flow with their direction. 

I added two Frank Godwin drawings as examples of masterfully executed lines that create visual flow. Keep in mind that visual ...

Drapery Studies

More exercise and more tips, hopefully some of them are useful! 

It's all about the underlying form of the body and it's action!!

Forest Troll PSD

A couple Dwarves PSDs

A couple Photoshop files showing how I might arrange my layers when doing character paintings, hopefully they're useful!

Keepers of the Gates PSD

A photoshop file of a personal painting, shows how I divided my layers and added some texture, hopefully it's useful!

Prisoner of the Book PSD

The photoshop file for a painting, hopefully it's useful! I had more separate layers but I generally merge most of them when finishing the piece so I can work on edges and transitions more freely