Daenerys

Daenerys skin study. I mainly spent time playing with the photoshop mixing brushes. Used the same technique I would use with oils.

By the way, I'm a Game of Thrones fan. If you haven't, you should jump on the books. The series is great, but it's so far behind.

Oil Portraits

A continuation of the last post, this time the oils. The two first ones are monochromatic portraits.





The next ones are done with the 'alla-prima' method. First I did a monochromatic underpainting with either Burnt Sienna or Terra Rosa, and after letting it dry overnight I started working on the rest, starting with the darks and then going to the lights. I have very little experience with oils, so all this was kind of new to me.









I enjoy oils, the possibilities they offer are amazing. However, I must admit that I do not enjoy the smells, nor dwelling with potentially hazardous liquids. And it's dirtying.
So in conclusion, I'd like to explore some more with these, but my main medium is unlikely to change from digital. I really enjoy the lack of mess.

New home and Charcoal Portraits

Back on internet... again. It feels like I spend half my life without internet easily accessible nowadays.

We finally got settled in our new apartment. Part of the furniture lost was replaced, and are still dealing with our insurances. In the meantime, the rest of my life keeps going, and I'm fully enjoying my life painting class. We spent about the first half of it doing portraits in charcoal and oils.

Here are the charcoals. Still don't have a scanner, so most of these are photographs. These are or 18"x24".














All done with models. There is definitely room for improvement but I'm practicing.

Harry Potter studies

I still managed to finish my study for today



Emma Watson, from the Harry Potter movies. Not much for the movies themselves, but I used to love the books, and it's a theme to keep me from wondering what to draw next all the time.
The resemblance is not completely there, here nose is too long (I tend to do that) and her eyes are a bit weird (strangely shaped, a bit too high). I noticed that a bit too late though.

Aside from that, I might have found something to motivate me to keep up these studies more often. We'll see how it goes.

Internet and suff

It's been a while... But I'm not dead yet.

Finally got internet in our new apartment (A bit less than a weak ago). It feels great not to have to go to school just to check my mail (yeah, I don't have any of that 3G technology. I'd rather not pay the monthly bill for that).



I have a lot of traditional real-sketchbook sketches, but I'm too lazy to scan those. I need a scanner, but good ones are really expensive...

So here's one of the only digital sketch I have done in this time







Our illustration professor had just given us a bunch of his brushes to play with. Some of them looked exactly like pencil, so I got carried away playing with it.



And another illustration for class. A gig poster design.







I've had comments on the bad types I use. I just don't know how to deal with type =( Practice makes better I guess, and I have very little in the matter.



That's all for now. Will try to approach a scanner soon hopefully. And I need to go to the zoo again too.

break and studies

Took a break from drawing these past few weeks. After finals I found myself dreaming very often that I still had things to finish, that there was one week before finals, that it was finals and nothing was done, and various other things on the same theme. But I'm back to it, and I have studies to show.
I have been doing a lot of quick sketch portraits lately, but I'll probably post them later when I have a scanner. Tried to take photos, but graphite definitely doesn't reproduce well in photos...
So just one page for now



And some photoshop studies. One is unfinished, from a photo of Michelangelo's David, the other one a random fawn.





Next week I'm back to summer classes. Tought I wouldn't be taking them this year, but it seems I just can't avoid them.

Self-Portraits

Haven't updated in a while, but I don't feel like letting this place die yet. I may post some more WIPs soon.



More work for class.The number of self-portraits that I've been doing in art school keeps growing, but I guess it's an easy way to draw a human figure without having to look for someone willing to let you draw them.
The one on the left is done in india ink, and the one on the right with black and white colored pencils. I'm unhappy with the ink one, but the pencil one is not too bad. I might try the pencil technique again.

Portrait 02

More portrait training =) Kind of a monochromatic palette on this one. With a reference again.

Portrait practice

I'm practicing portraits, as I tend to be very bad at drawing the face. They always end up looking ugly.



As you can see, I love to play with unrealistic colors. I used a photo-reference for this one, although I wasn't trying to make it look the same: http://liam-stock.deviantart.com/art/portrait-84686066 (I can't seem to make the link work)