Andrew Theophilopoulos

Another Thesis Painting.

2012-02-20T19:19:00.002-08:00

“The Abitbol Triplets”, another piece to the thesis.

Stuff I threw out yesterday.

2012-02-02T22:41:00.001-08:00

http://theonides.tumblr.com/

Pleiadians

2012-01-17T20:12:00.000-08:00

The first of a veautiful Thesis...

"Princess of the Pleiadians"

Pillars of Creation

2011-12-05T19:03:00.000-08:00

2011-11-20T20:13:00.000-08:00

Check out the Demo on my new Portfolio Website

2 hr junk yeaaaa

2011-11-08T17:47:00.000-08:00

Somethin I did today...

Thesis Painting.

2011-10-15T21:37:00.001-07:00

This was my idea that i just vomited out... its still a few months away till i can actually paint it though :/

Demo

2011-10-06T17:57:00.001-07:00

Thumbnails

In this case I started traditionally drawing thumbnails on every piece of paper I could find. The thumbnails were all smaller than a inch each, this gives me the ability to cover a lot of ground extremely fast. My idea for the project was to have a character with their animal companion and I took it from there. At this point there is no character design, no reference, nothing besides the shapes of the elements I planned on using. I pushed these 1 inch thumbnails until the composition was perfect for me… using things like tails, vines and cracks in the rocks to bring my eye around the composition.

Draw over

This was a technique I leaned at Digital Domain over the summer. Basically, in Photoshop throw a white layer on top of your drawing at a low opacity and you got yourself some tracing paper. I blew my 1 inch thumbnail up to about 15 inches and drew directly on top of it, roughly fleshing out the shapes I made with the pencil. Trying to give the characters somewhat of a pose while staying within the shape I gave them in the thumbnail stage. Continue adding tracing paper over and over until you settle on a decent final drawing.

Painting

I use the hard round brush in mostly all of my paintings. Im not a fan of searching through a billion random brushes for texture… It really slows me down and I don’t know how to use them that well. My process is more of an Alla Prima painterly approach. I have my Hard Round Brush equipped with pressure sensitive size jitter and opacity jitter to give me a butt load of control. With this one brush I can imitate any texture and any edge. I don’t use the soft round brush because it dictates how soft my edges are and EVERY edge is different and unique in its own way.

Once I have my drawing done I will change the color of the lines to a dark warm red, Just so I don’t pick up any muddy black. Under the line layer I will start painting with color. I tried this website that gives you a color scheme for the first time and it went pretty well. I grabbed the colors from the website and pushed them towards the colors I needed for a tree, a rock or a person etc…Color is relative by the way… Once my values are reading I make a new layer on top of the lines and RENDER AWAYYYYYYY

At this point the only reference I had was for the female character. I had been painting so much of this stuff from work I didn’t bother getting reference for anything. Besides stripe patterns that is**

For me the painting process is just working edges and filling the world with everything you imagine would be there. Constantly questioning everything about your painting and bringing it to a stage where you have all the answers.

This painting took 20-30 hours. Hope you enjoy.

New Art!

2011-10-06T13:09:00.000-07:00

Here's the a painting I did for Illest of Ill. It didn't get in but such is life :c

DEMO AT: THEONIDES.TUMBLR.COM

Thank you DD

TEMBO

2011-08-12T10:28:00.000-07:00

So I work for an animation studio called Tradition Studios, from Digital Domain.
Here were going to be making feature length animation films combining great story telling with Digital Domains amazing special effects.
Here is the poster by Aaron Blaise
As well as two of the paintings I did this summer.
More of the Exclusive First Look at
http://www.tcpalm.com/news/2011/aug/11/digital-domains-tradition-studios-announces-film/

Sargeeeee

2011-08-12T10:27:00.001-07:00

demo at
http://theonides.tumblr.com/

Sargent

2011-07-26T16:53:00.000-07:00

Photoshop master copy

Round brush

No color picking

http://www.flickr.com/photos/juanjrramirez/5201329211/sizes/l/in/photostream/

girlfriend

2011-07-11T19:31:00.000-07:00

Pixar

2011-04-11T16:07:00.000-07:00

Hey there, just had an interview with Pixar the other day and I wanted to send them a thank you card. They were awesome!!

Some quick stuff

2011-04-06T14:19:00.000-07:00

Messing with a new style. here are some quick things i put together.. I'll be doing a 30x40 painting of the snow monkey one!! soo look out for that :)

Meeting the Man

2011-03-01T17:09:00.000-08:00

I got commissioned to do the portrait of x Prime Minister of England Tony Blair :D from what i understand He Loved it and its going in his office.. he's an awesome dude!

Tony Blair

2011-02-23T10:52:00.001-08:00

experimenting :)))))

2011-02-20T11:30:00.001-08:00

what i do

2011-02-19T21:28:00.001-08:00

digital from life

2011-02-19T21:26:00.000-08:00

Some scifi

2011-02-13T15:03:00.000-08:00

baltimore

2011-01-25T15:40:00.000-08:00

Character designs

2011-01-19T11:43:00.000-08:00

Annnnnd Halo :)

2010-12-18T16:09:00.001-08:00

This is a work in progress.... i haven't had time to work on it since school got out..

More dump!

2010-12-18T13:31:00.000-08:00

so here we have a bunch of stuff. Illustrations, master copy, digital master copy of richard schmid in "painter" some 20 minute gesture painting (my fav!!) plain ol paintings and finally a pretty portrait of myself done in Illustrator. how fun!!

Stuff dumping

2010-12-18T13:18:00.000-08:00

Zbrush nonsense

2010-10-18T22:48:00.001-07:00

some artsy junk

2010-10-18T22:43:00.000-07:00

2nd place in Illest of ill :)

2010-10-16T12:53:00.000-07:00

COWboy robo man :)

2010-10-12T18:39:00.000-07:00

story here.. dude's running from society. after badly wounded in the war he was experimented on and now avoiding civilization. bounty hunters kill his horse.. he kills them. the end :)

Awesome amazing sargentesk model!!!

2010-09-28T20:03:00.001-07:00

she was nice enough to let me take photo's to paint from :)

Final star wars date night :)

2010-09-15T23:02:00.001-07:00

LOL Illustration :)

2010-09-02T20:57:00.001-07:00

More avatar process

2010-09-02T20:56:00.000-07:00

Favorite painting ever

2010-07-12T14:53:00.000-07:00

a painting messed up with liquify and the painted again. ha i love it, took maybe 2 hours

Illustration Master copy project.

2010-03-02T18:22:00.000-08:00

Amy winehouse done after the classic Madame X painting by Sargent. here is a mid way and a final.

2010-01-17T16:25:00.000-08:00

So heres some stuff iv learned over the break. surprisingly learning more then when i'm at school.

first off is this quote about painting...

"paint what it looks like, not what it is. because if you dont paint what it looks like its not going to look like what it looks like!"

mind blowing information i know.

also i learned a bit about edges which really helped. iv always had hard edges for everything when in fact there are so many types of edges. that really helped me.

so kids when were painting try not to take shortcuts try to never put down a stroke that your unhappy with and SQUINT!!!

look for :

Shapes

Value

Color temperature

and Value

the color temperature is also a big one too. dont try to mix skin colors, try to mix what the skin looks like in a warm light with a cool shadow, or vice versa**

and lastly ... just paint.. a lot :)

new painting... 5ft x 2ft

2009-12-25T10:30:00.001-08:00

Caitlin burns... my lovely girl posed here for my new painting. its super big so i dunno when it will be done but heres some process :)

i had a little problem with finding spray fix.. thats why its so smudgy sorry...

sargent

2009-12-23T11:45:00.000-08:00

another master copy.. from the true master

holy cow photographing these paintings suck!! any one have any tips to get a clean accurate photo??

Frank Frazetta

2009-12-16T21:14:00.000-08:00

first painting of the winter break. master copy done in acrylic.. about 10x12 ish

mine is the crappier one...

Illest of Ill

2009-10-06T07:57:00.000-07:00

The only submission i could put together...