Speed painting

Speed Painting

Whenever I saw a painting or a portrait, I used to think of a very well-known artist standing in front of a canvas with a paintbrush in hand with a wide assortment of colors and paintbrushes of various sizes, and I think that is how people in our post-modern society think when they see a painting. One thing people never think about is the process that the artist took to make his work of art. Some artist may go to great lengths just to see their dreams realized on canvas and others take a completely different approach. Some artists use completely unorthodox methods to create their art.

One way they do this is by using technology to mimic the aesthetics of old paintings.

 "Halo" speed painting

"Killzone 2" speed painting

This interests me because this artwork was created using only the paint brush tool in Adobe Photoshop and the fact this it was purely conceptual- the artist did not use a picture as a guideline of how everything should look. What amazes me is that it was created using only the paintbrush tool and the fact that traditional painting techniques were perfectly executed using technology- this was something that was thought to be impossible to do. This also demonstrates the powers of Adobe Photoshop and ultimately bridged the gap between traditional artwork and modern day technology.