Simple test of a new ‘work in progress’ feature I’m planning to add on SpeedyPainter: the possibility to create simple frame-by-frame animations. The feature is still in its early stages, quite experimental for now, I hope to provide more updates soon 🙂
SpeedyPainter is a lightweight painting software for Windows. You can freely download it from here
SpeedyPainter v3.4.5 uses a better algorithm for alpha blending. This new solution allows to avoid image artifacts with image filtering, allowing to reduce the image graininess when zooming in and out from the image original size.
Image filtering comparison between SpeedyPainter v3.4.3 and v3.4.5
Female face study
Female face study,
trying a mix of cartoonish/realistic style.
I think I like the final result.
Reference used:
http://laurencalaway.deviantart.com/art/A-Long-December-423941310
Drawing done with SpeedyPainter:
http://speedypainter.altervista.org/
Video of the drawing process:
In this version, during replay, the camera smoothly pans and zooms across the canvas in order to focus on those areas currently being painted.
Hippo Study
Video of the drawing process:
power of hands
Trying to add more details to a previous drawing I did some time ago. The drawing is done using SpeedyPainter.
I used a wonderful photo by Ivan Grlic as a reference, the original image is available here.
Video of the drawing process:
“SpeedyPainter” is a simple and lightweight painting software. It is written in C++ and uses the OpenGL graphics library.
You can download it for free here:
http://speedypainter.altervista.org/download.html
SpeedyPainter 
