Really like your pup drawing, Artloader. Wish I had the discipline to paint; just way too lazy to do this. lol

Thanks Lyle . I guess we like to do what we enjoy doing, I like painting and you like creating genius ways of using plugins and you're good at it!

Just wish I had the gumption to actually create the plugins, Artloader. lol

Filter guy I am. I suppose filters are my brushes of choice.

@Lyle: Yep each to their own mate!

Here's a digital painting of a candle-lit shack. I did it to study for a project I am doing with an author friend. I wanted to gain confidence in painting candle-lit shacks. Any critiques would be welcome - thanks.

The painting is very nice.
IMHO lights and colours could be improved to give a more realistic effect of candle-lights.
Look at the image taken from Google

Many thanks Dinasset. Yes I see that I should have included more red tones to suggest candle light, thank you for the thoughtful feedback .

I'm trying out a new process for painting the human figure:

Still messing about with a process for painting the human figure, any critiques most welcome, thanks.

“On the broken world of Dustryon, Princess Tronica Vin is heir to the throne of Vangaia and is a technological genius but she is easily bored. To get her kicks she takes to the streets of her crime ridden kingdom and indulges in a bit of vigilantism. Armed with a chainsword of her own design she has taken down some heavy duty baddies already. What will she do next?”

Merry Christmas GimpChat!

Nice
but...not really to wish Merry Christmas! ....heheh
Merry Christmas to you too Artloader

Thanks Dinasset .

What? You've never been wished a Merry Christmas by a chainsword wielding woman before?

Been a while.

I've been getting into using traditional acrylic paints and canvas board (7" x 5") - great fun .

Here's a puppy dog I did a recently working from a photo reference (critiques welcome as always):

Thanks Wallace .

I hadn't done it since school many, many years ago but I'm glad I started it up again though - real paint is so much fun .

aww what a cute puppy. <3
I'm learning acrylics myself, only I'm using cheap craft paint because that's all I can "afford" and I can't even afford that. xD

I like the style you're going for, it's somewhat geometric but still not overly angled.

Thanks Mokonafan, I try to simplify the shapes I see - hence the geometric look.

Here's the next one - painted monochromatically in burnt umber:

Your puppy is cute, but I really love that bunny!

Wow, Wow and more Wows! Your work is amazing and puts mine to shame!
And I agree that the Man Wearing Laurel definitely looks like Freddie!
Before I read it I immediately thought it was Freddie. Queen is still my favorite band ever!!

Definitely cool work. Can't criticise anything. Since I started using gimp I gave up pencil, pastel, paint. Would never have done anything as good as what you are doing.

@Pat625: Thanks Pat - bunnies are just the cutest pets aren't they? We used to have a house bunny who used to watch TV with us .

@PhotoMaster: Thank you for the very kind words PhotoMaster . I agree too on the likeness to Freddie Mercury I think it's the moustache .

@Sallyanne: Thank you, you are too kind .