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Acrylic painting beginning
As I’ve said before, the Queen paintings are going to be actual, physical paintings. I’m working in acrylic since that’s the easiest medium (besides watercolor) for what I can do in my space. And by space I mean a corner in my bedroom. It’s been awhile since I’ve painted figures in acrylic. (Have I ever? […]
Thumbnails galore!
I went though some of my old artwork as part of my resolution to be more productive this year. (I just need to make art, man…) I was looking for projects that I can update, redo, or finish. I have a lot of drawings from high school but it’s mostly girls just standing on a […]
Starting over
Sometimes you just have to start over. Continuing to work on the last image I realized the anatomy was all sorts of crazy. And trying to fix it in Photoshop wasn’t working out. I had to go back and redraw the head. I think this works better. The first Queen painting seems fine. I just […]
Comparing
Like I’ve said (Have I? If I haven’t here I go…) the Queen paintings are going to be a series of paintings. I wanted to do them on 16×20 canvas boards but I’ve been waylaid by Photoshop. I’m having a lot of fun painting digitally. Since they’re part of a series I went into this […]
Digital painting process
I started working on the next Queen painting. It starts out really messy and confusing. But I just want to get colors down. All I’m using is the brush tool and the smudge took for blending (again, using skin texture brushes from Obsidian Dawn). I used an adjustment layer halfway through to shift the skin […]
Fun with digital painting
I’m mostly a traditional painter. I’ve gotten more experience and practice with Photoshop in the last couple years. But I am more comfortable with a paintbrush to canvas. But since I already had my sketches scanned in I thought I’d try my hand at digital painting again. I did the first painting above and left […]
Queen sketches
One part of being more productive this year is going back to best practices. And that’s having a set process: thumbnails > sketches > color studies (although I haven’t done this too much) > finished work. All the artwork I’ve done that I have really liked and feel were successful followed this process. On that […]
Happy 2014!
New year. I’m trying to be more productive with my art. I have so many ideas and things I’ve thought about for ages. It’s past time to turn these ideas into finished projects. Strange thing: being creative makes me feel more creative? Who knew? First Up: Queen (tentative title) paintings. Not the band Queen. More […]