Saturday, December 31, 2011
25 of 25
This is the 25th of the 25 portraits I've painted since I set the goal to finish for the end of December back at the end of November. I would normally put some more time into this one but I'm rather tired. I'm really happy to have completed this project though as I was not entirely sure I'd be able to complete it to my satisfaction but I think I've pulled it off! I may touch some of these up in the future but they are presentable now I think.
Unlike the previous 24 photographs, I actually know who this model is. It is Petra Cross of gmail.
With this project I also smashed the record of the number of posts I had made last year, which was 34 in 2010 and here with this I've hit 41 in 2011. In September or November I had realized that I was far behind my previous output and that had really bothered me. I'd like to take on other mini personal goals like this. I have some commission work to finish off and I need to arrange some personal courses but I'll get back to it I have little doubt. Its been very constructive to force myself to do this many especially since some I didn't really care for but I have learned a few things from the process!
Thursday, December 29, 2011
Wednesday, December 28, 2011
23 of 25
Monday, December 26, 2011
22 of 25
Saturday, December 24, 2011
Friday, December 23, 2011
Thursday, December 22, 2011
Wednesday, December 21, 2011
Tuesday, December 20, 2011
Wednesday, December 14, 2011
Saturday, December 10, 2011
Friday, December 02, 2011
7 of 25
Thursday, December 01, 2011
Sunday, November 27, 2011
5 of 25
Saturday, November 26, 2011
Friday, November 25, 2011
03 of a hopeful 25
Tuesday, November 22, 2011
Freckles
Sometimes I run into a lot of cool images I'd love to paint and then I tend to download the whole lot. Less seldomly I actually paint them. Tragically I can't recall where I found all of these but if I ever do I'll link and give credit to the photographer.
This particular image could use some fixing up and hopefully I'll get to it soon. She is supposed to be a child but looks a tad too mature. Part of the reason is that her mouth and chin are too far apart which probably happened because I got the chin the right size but made her facial features too small.
(edit Nov 22: I fixed her up a bit)
(edit: hopefully the first of 25)
Monday, October 31, 2011
Landscape 15
http://www.panoramio.com/user/1279507?with_photo_id=28023033 this guy has amazing photos.
Thursday, October 27, 2011
Monday, October 24, 2011
Thursday, October 20, 2011
Wednesday, October 19, 2011
Study of something by LaroLaro
Neither a true study or copy but something heavily inspired by this image. I have to say I love the man's work.
Monday, October 17, 2011
Thursday, October 13, 2011
State of the robot
Still a work in progress but I want to bring this to a finished level to be sure. I originally sketched this one out a few weeks ago and didn't touch it for a while but over the thanksgiving weekend I finalized the lines. They are still a little scratchy and uneven at points but I want to refine it.
I can see going in two directions from this point: Finalizing the lines even more and paying attention to the lineweight a lot more and colour it that way or just completely painting over it leaving no or minimal trace of the linework in which case the lineart would become less important and in fact could mostly be ignored as it would be replaced. It surprisingly difficult to decide how to go about colouring it which is something I suspect would be possibly easier had I not taken so long to work on it till now. I exaggerate not when I estimate its taken twenty hours or so to get to this point!
I have realized that before the end of the year I want to have 34 blog posts with new art, or more, in order to match last years quantity or exceed it. I want to be better at painting and in general illustration so it is a worthy goal! A lot of these paintings may not be super tight and hopefully will be a mix of environments and portraits. I could put up sketches but I do want the pieces to meet a certain level of quality.
Wednesday, October 12, 2011
Horse Practice
I took a break from working on a robot I put over twenty hours into over the long weekend. Working up to Godiva and need more practice as horses certainly are not something I have drawn a lot in the past! This is from photographic reference! I'm not sure the original photographer but it is pretty quick to find when googling"horse".
Wednesday, September 21, 2011
Sunday, September 18, 2011
Sunday, August 07, 2011
Wednesday, July 27, 2011
Friday, July 15, 2011
Character Series
Saturday, June 25, 2011
Portrait of a women
Monday, February 28, 2011
Friday, February 04, 2011
Thursday, January 20, 2011
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