Mypaint 1.1 for windows Download link

Today I thought I would give the latest version of Mypaint 1.1 for windows a Quick test.
 I must say it is not to bad. There are some pretty good brushes. I may do a video review of it in a week or so.
 So here is a 20 minute speed paint I did to test it out. so far it works well with my Intous 5 touch.
 I will post more about this free painting and drawing app later on.
Here is the link to the download. http://opensourcepack.blogspot.fr/2013/01/mypaint-and-pygi.html

Female Pirate concept

Here is todays sketch.
 With this sketch I was trying to capture an idea and see if I could get the form of the character to read. This is just a concept sketch but most of all practice.

Merry Chritstmas and a few study sketches

I have not posted anything in several days so I thought I had better get busy.
 Any way today is Chritstmas and I spent the morning with my Grand kids and my wife of course.
 I have to go back to work in the morning, so I thought I would get some study done.
 Here are a few sketches. I am trying to focus in on drawing feet and legs. I am not try to get them perfect but just want them to read. I am still just drawing manikins and adding a few details here and there but really want to try to keep the proportions while drawing gestures.
 Well I could ramble on a while but got get some sleep.

Drawing without reference

Here are a few more sketches.
The first one is without reference. I like to use reference most of the time, but sometimes I think it is good to just draw from your mind. I think it helps you see where you are as far as keeping proportions and anatomy. I am fully aware that I still have a long ways to go.
 I have also been doing some study on painting skin, of coarse I not ready post any paintings just yet.

Digital painting, figure drawing, super heroes, drawing comics, Manga 

Spiderman pose

Here is another quick sketch. This time I used Sketchbook express for sketching and exported the sketch as a .psd to see if Krita would import it correctly. I had no issues at all importing the image into Krita as a .psd.
 I like using Spiderman as reference for gesture drawing because of the insane poses.

How to Draw Tips | The 5 STAGES of a Drawing

Found this great tutorial that really helped me get refocused on the figure drawing process.

Here is todays final sketch. I used Spiderman as my inspiration.
 I really need to work on drawing hands.
This sketch was drawn using Krita for Windows.

Figure Drawing, Krita for windows, free photoshop alternative.

One last sketch tonight. Most of my sketches are not that good but I know the more I study and sketch the better I will be.
 What is funny about this sketch is that it almost looks like a Manga character, even though I am just not into Manga.

Capturing form and gesture

I did a couple of sketches today. I tried not to focus on detail, but tried to capture more of the gesture and basic form in these sketches.