Digital Speed Painting

I looove the rocks in the first one...my only constructive critiscism is that the fog looks kind of Scooby Doo-ish.

Thanks for the help.  The fog was made with my cloud brush.  I'll work on making a better one.

As far as tutorials, I watched the David Levy dvd on speedpainting and concept art before I did these (I basically just copied his technique.)  It's super easy.  For the cloud brush, just make an arch out of circles and swirls with a low opacity, hard round brush.  Use black to start and white to create contrast (I basically ended up with three cocentric, bumpy arches - light grey inside white inside dark grey.)  Finish it off with a soft grey haze at the top.  The rock is a little trickier.  Just draw a random rock-like shape.  Start very loosely painting in value that goes from light on top, to dark in the middle, and to medium on the bottom.  Be sure that you lines go from very broad to very small and that you have a high level of contrast.  Once you get your brushes, play around with the different jitters (i.e. size, angle, opacity, etc.)  until they look cool.

thats ill man, looks like in the first one it could almost be water crashing up on the rocks.  nice work.

I don't know why those pics are so small.  They're larger in my profile.

that's sick, good work.