Day 85 : Streams

This weekend and next are probably the most social of my 3 month hermitage. I didn't actually get a whole lot done art wise for my liking, but I did achieve a few things which might make things a bit more interesting.

I finally managed to get my own Livestream channel working. Livestream is a website where anyone can setup a streaming media channel for free. Many artists use it to stream their desktops live while they work so people can come and have a look at their process, ask questions or just have a good old chat and hangout for a bit. 

Below is the 3.5hr stream condensed down to about 5 and a half minutes. Sorry for the annoying windows popping up all the time, I recorded with only the laptop; future ones will be dual monitor so only the painting will be captured. 

I finished the piece offline and the final result is below.

A stream from a stream

Besides the sketchathon I don't often view other people's streams because, well I've got too much I need to do on my own painting to hang about watching other people paint but I can see how it could be really inspiring watching amazing work come together in real time.

Speaking of sketchathons, here is a collage of some of the stuff from the most recent one last night/early this morning. I seem to be staying up for these later and later each time. 10.30pm - 5.30am and up by 9.30am again.

Skull Island

Asian inspired Palace Entrance

Ferrari inspired Mech

Female assassin (yep female: total fail on my part)

And completely against my better judgement I will publish the last one as well: 

Crackhead Vs. Dinosa

Ok so maybe not every round is inspired, but it certainly is a challenge and we paint for up to 12 hours straight. Gimme a break.