Ognjen Sporin

Tiger WIPS

WIPS for a big commission

Here's some work in progress on a pretty complex painting 

Actual vs Visual

Here's a little talk I was invited to have by a friend for his university 

I think the subject is very very interesting and I could have definitely had a less confusing intro, but I thin...

Another Painting I had to Re-DO

As you can clearly see, not scrapping an idea early enough only leads to wasting your time

As soon as I laid in the flat colors over the 1st drawing it was pretty obvious it was reading poorl...

sometimes you gotta redo a painting

a few times even

and some wips of the version I ended up finishing 

Dwarf Cook Process

WIPs of a Cover Commission

More progress stuff, if you have any questions ask awaay

Process For a Scene Illustration

Along with some sketches 

A big part of painting (especially in this way without a developed drawing) is just remaining calm and not panicking about how shitty the painting looks at the ...

Commissions WIPS and Sketches

Here are some process shots of a few commissions, hopefully it shows a bit of how I build the painting up

Nowadays I don't really have a final drawing before the painting itself, but use the ...

Commission Process

Here's a process vid for a client painting, feel free to ask any questions! 

Complex Painting Process

Here's a process vid of a more complex scene commission. The total length of the original recording is about 17hrs, and here's the finished painting:

2021-12-13 16:52:57 +0000 UTC View Post

Commission Work in Progress

Some WIP shots of a character painting 

If I have a rimlight in mind I usually figure out its placement in the early stages and then hide that layer until I render out the main light wel...

Client Painting Progress

Here are some WIP shots of a creature done for work!

Feel free to ask me anything you'd like to know about this process or just in general :D 

Self Portrait Process and Color Tips

Here are some process shots of a self-portrait, and I figured this is a good example of  using hue shifts on the face. Here's an exaggerated diagram showing how the colors change over the face...

Another Twitch Stream

This one is a bit all over the place, in the beginning I do a little reference collecting which might be interesting to some I suppose, and I also show  the start of a drawing for a larger int...

Twitch Stream Replay

Here's a replay of yesterday's stream, they disappear on twitch in 2 weeks so I'll post them here where they'll remain.

If you've got any questions or topics that you'd like me to get into in...

Some Progress Shots for a Personal Painting

This is a painting of Charon, a dude that rows the souls across a river to hell in Dante's Diablo, and I plan to take it really far with the render. The painting had to go through a few changes, be...

Beatrice Portrait

Here are some of the references I relied on the most for this painting:

2021-10-23 06:48:13 +0000 UTC View Post

Portrait

Here's some work in progress on a portrait I should finish pretty soon, I'll do a tutorial/tips about it. What would you like me to share/talk about? : D 

Redoing Drawings

When you're figuring out a solution for a drawing, often you'll have to do it a few times over to get it looking the way you'd like. When the drawing isn't going well, it's very important not to fr...

Sketchbook Tidbits

I've been having a bit of an art block so I started drawing more in my sketchbook without any commitment or pressure, so I figured I'd share some raw pages from my sketchbook. The only real commitm...

Some Process and Painting Tips

Haven't posted over here in a while since I've been busy with client work, but here's a little bit of process and some painting tips that keep coming down to the same thing - always think in simple...

Treeant progress

Here are some progress shots for my last personal painting. It's loosely based on an older one that I did about 2 years ago:

2021-09-15 04:55:54 +0000 UTC View Post

Character Paintings - PSD Files

Here are a few PSD examples of how I typically approach pieces for clients (and particularly single characters)

Editing When Doing Studies

Here's a painting I'm doing as a gift for a friend and pretty much treating like a slightly caricatured study. 

It's very important to be conscious when doing studies, because if not dil...

Painting Detail

Here's a small breakdown of the lighting on this hood fold, showing all the light sources and influences. Hopefully my little diagram reads well, I feel like I have dysgraphia when I try to write o...

Painting Process and Separating Lights

Here's some progress on a painting I started yesterday. 

I generally start with a rough sketch, and do a color comp over that, which looks something like this:

2021-09-02 08:44:14 +0000 UTC View Post

Simple Structure Everywhere

Here's a big piece I haven't posed anywhere yet, and I wanted to give a little tip on simplicity when painting, especially in these big, more rendered pieces.

The only way to get really good ...

Using Good Reference

A huge part of making a believable painting is finding high quality reference. The images you find will inform details and anatomy of things, but they still need to be filtered through your conscio...

Some Tips on Doing Dragons

Focus on Proportions and Shape Language over Anatomy

When I started doing dragons some time ago, I saw animal anatomy as a big part of them and found it pretty intimidating, ...