Adventurer... kind of.

Went streaming again for a bit and to redeem myself from the sketch that prefaced the sea monster I painted up another female adventurer. Although, the further I went the more, zombie apocalypse she got. Still was fun though. Took way too long though. A pretty embarrassing amount of time for such a simple sketch. Ah well, how it goes sometimes. Just wasn't making good decisions as I painted it.

Shamble away Frankenstein.

This is the result of tonight's impromptu stream. Decided to paint something up real quick and frankenstein came to mind first. Took about an hour to finish. Then I wasted another half hour doing all sorts of stuff to it that I ended up undoing. So before I got trapped in a poorly planned, slightly random finishing process for 5 or 6 more hours I called it quits.

Still sort of getting used to the pressure of having people watch me paint. Have to remember not to rush.

Sea Monster is still stuck in an uncomfortable stare. But slightly different.

I made some quick revisions to the sea monster I doodled up last night. I'm a bit more happy with this version. I've been liking square compositions more and more.

You don't watch sea monster. Sea monster watches you.

I'm streaming again. New link, and you can watch me here! 

http://www.ustream.tv/channel/drawing-painting

This was the rather random result of streaming last night for a good 4 hours. I was watching a stream and the broadcaster had to leave, and I ended up broadcasting in her place. For the first hour I struggled with a weak drawing until finally giving up on trying to save it. So, I asked what I should draw/paint and "monster" was thrown out. After the previous effort, I stuck with a relaxing headshot. There's a lot of stuff here, technique-wise, reapplied from the fictional mass effect character I did, but some new stuff too.

My favorite thing being that to get the red tint in the eyes I made a copy of this very same painting, tinted it heavily read, then stretched the picture so it wouldn't be recognizable, then masked it over the black eyes this fellow has. Im quite pleased with this one. Had fun with it, because it was painted with 6-7 other people who were great company, but also because of the result achieved in 3 hours worth of work. 

All Photoshop - 8.5x11

Mike Puncekar... LIVE

So I finally found an easy way to stream what's happening on my screen and I tested it today for the first time. Ustream, I would like to thank you and your fantastic software. Getting this to work with any sort of decent quality on justin.tv was too much.

I streamed for 3 hours taking requests from people and just sort of screwing around. So far I think I'm pretty happy with the set-up. I can run music in the channel and talk to people with the mic while I paint and work on projects. As long as it's fun or personal chances are I'll be broadcasting it.

But for future reference I'll be announcing when I start on my twitter here: www.twitter.com/mpuncekar

And broadcasting on the channel here: www.ustream.tv/channel/mpuncekar-live-stream

Anyway, I got three mini-paints done during 3 hours. Something for the irish today, a meaner sonic, and a magician dude who is looking a bit venture brothers.

Edit: Just realized I uploaded the wrong sonic. Finished version now in the post.