Gestures of the Pig and Donkey. Royal Winter Fair 2008
Sunday, November 16, 2008
Femmy Portrait
This is one of my fave peices - One thing I love to do is paint portraits. There's something about studies like these that makes the painting a bit simpler, but also, the nice thing about portraits in particular is their personal quality. Great for capturing the subjects emotion, and even their thoughts.
Jungle Roughs
Here's a nice little scene that I'm almost done. This is just the first and second draft of three that I'm doing for a Mysterious Jungle painting. I'm pretty excited about it and I'm already liking how the final is looking, but that could change by the time it's finished. I originally started with the top one, going for a more acidic color scheme as well as experementing with using black instead of mixing achromatic greys. You can see on the bottom how mixing greys really softened up the colors - I dont know which one I like more though, because they both make two different but great effects.
Monday, November 10, 2008
Mom Drawing
Okay, I know what you're thinking. "It was drawn from a photograph." Well you're right, ha, ha.
This was a study I did early on in the game when I wasn't so good with drawing and painting from life. People may tell you that drawing and painting from a photo is no good. In fact, I'll tell you the same thing. However, I did learn something from drawing this. I learned that using photos for reference is okay but not to copy them. Copying is gay...So the moral is... Use photos as a tool to learn, not to copy.
Hands and Feet
At first, hands and feet for me were somewhat difficult because I found it hard to really say alot about structure in the drawing. One day, I saw some of the better hand and foot drawings that were posted up in the hallways, and the thing that I noticed that was making the difference was using cross contour here and there to show the plane changes. So I sat down one night and taught myself how to do it. Sure enough I got an 89% on both sets of drawings from my life instructer. This was the first time I really felt like I broke into that small group that everyone gives the "nod of approval" to (for lifedrawing at least)... It was cool.
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