just keep drawing...

A few figures from an old (year 2000) book on fashion illustration called "Fashion Images."

I had to really push myself to get some drawing done tonight. My worry is that I have been looking at anatomy as a bunch of separate parts for a while and I really need to focus on the entire figure as a whole. Gonna do my best over the next few days to keep drawing complete figures as well as anatomical parts.

After a long day at work it is really hard to sit down with a pencil and paper. Glad I did it though.

sketching - a page a day

Thanks to mjranum on deviantart for the photo reference http://mjranum-stock...ancer-196677617 

skull heads

yesterday's page

sketching must not stop

Well, my figure drawing class with Comics Experience has ended - and it was excellent in every way. Really fueled my artistic fires and got me in the habit of drawing every day again.


Since anew semester has resumed the new challenge will be keeping up with the art in spite of copious amounts of 'paperwork' that will need to be produced and consumed.

Gotta make sure my priorities are straight.
...as do we all.

New Year, new painting

Made some breakthroughs in digital painting to ring in the new year.

Technical notes:

I was keeping my brush at around 70% opacity and 50% flow using hard edge brushed for blocking in color and soft at around 30% opacity for blending.

I got carried away with the mermaids parts – particularly with the faces and eyes. I don’t know if it is wise to work these detailed areas first but I’m thinking I can keep the rest very loose and perhaps come to a quick finish.

Discovered the art of WEI (http://www.artofwei.com/ ) while trying to figure out the lighting for mermaid 1. Different brush settings recommended – 25% opacity and flow. It works pretty well for blending things smoothly. Gotta bump the percentages up for hard edges and details.

Today I am pretty much done, except for some final nitpicking. I learned a lot and often felt like I had completely left my comfort zone and had no idea how to proceed... but 13 days later the coloring is done ...almost.