Speed Painting 10: Daenerys Targaryen (Game of Thrones)

Well if you want to watch Game of Thrones but don't want it spoiled (tv show not books), look at my other videos instead. There is this character in the show, white hair, young, that wants to rule over Kingdoms. Oh yeah, she also has three fucking dragons with her as they goes after what she thinks is rightfully hers. I love strong, deep women characters in TV series rather than a pretty face, and Daenerys fits this criteria very well. I illustrated part of the scene at the end of season 1 with her when her dragons finally hatch from their eggs and come to life, and added a few things such as one flying and another breathing fire. This happens a bit later in season 2 and season 3, but I wanted to give a slightly different perspective. If you somehow read this and don't watch the show, watch it. Go watch it right now.

Speed Painting 9: Mario Caricature

I still remember when I was a little kid playing Mario on the SNES with my mom, certainly one of the most iconic video game characters around. It was just a matter of time before I drew him. I wanted to try a "cartoony" (is this a even a word?) style illustration. Make it very welcoming, very sweet, great bright colors saying this is a nice picture, and then show Mario about to a eat a mushroom with his mouth filled with saliva at the thought of eating the mushroom while the mushroom is crapping his pants (doesn't have pants) at the thought, thus the massive amount of sweat. (unnecessary run-on sentence to display message vs illustration feel).

There is some animation at the end of the video for those interested, enjoy! ;)

Speed Painting 8: Coldplay

So as I said in my previous post, I will updating a few speed painting videos and my next one includes Coldplay. I wanted to try a slightly different style, illustrate them in black and add hues of blue, purple and yellow. Every few illustrations, I try something different to see whether I will fail or expand my illustration abilities a bit further rather than not developing. I think it's important to get out of your comfort zone as an illustrator! Anyways, I'm done rambling, enjoy the video.

Speed Painting 7: Felix Baumgartner

I will be updating a few of the speed paintings I've done the past few months. Felix Baumgartner, the man with the biggest balls on Earth and set the record for skydiving an estimated 39 kilometers. If that's not enough, he landed on his feet while at some point falling around the speed of 1357km/hr... I tried my best at doing this illustration as realistically as possible, so I hope the people that view it do enjoy it!

The Hobbit Speedpainting

I decided to illustrate The Hobbit and release it during the month the first movie came out. I was a pretty big fan of the Lord of the Rings trilogy so I felt it would be worth painting. I also knew I would have a lot of fun with this illustration, there are so many different colors with a fantasy theme. What's not to love for an illustrator? Well, hope you guys have as much fun watching as I did painting it! Cheers!

Gangnam Style Speedpainting

Check out my new speed painting for Gangnam Style if you've got a few minutes to kill. I added a bit of animation at the end of the video to make it a bit more intriguing. Illustrating Psy and the elevator scene was very enjoyable, I had to pick this because it gave me a lot of freedom in terms of animation for the end of the video. A new video comes out the first of every month. Enjoy!

W3Schools, the best website for learning how to code

The title says it all.  While there are a plethora of information/guides for learning how to code HTML/CSS or any type of coding language to create a website, the website website is www.w3schools.com.  It's free, simple and has a LOT of content to learn about coding.

I'm not saying only stick to this, as Google and youtube tutorials are for me at least regular tools I use when I am learning about new programs or languages (coding wise).  Having spoken with several people that know more about web design/development along with professors that teach the class, they have universally stated that this website is the best for those looking for information.  My suggestion is never stick to only one source of information, but this is for me the best one.

a list of options to learn from

As you can see from the second picture above, there's plenty of content to look from.  Below at the end of this post, I will post another picture showing examples of work with code on one side and what it can achieve to the next side.  I am a visual person, so I understand things when I see them better which is why examples like this are useful.  You can also search for certain things on the website, which will take you to Google and you can select a bunch of options that can relink you to the w3schoools website.

example of coding and its result

Once again here's the link to the website here.