I did promise progress shots of my painting, didn’t I?
Behold, my workspace: the kitchen table! Pretty much disables people from eating proper meals whenever I have a plate to do. Lovely. Reference picture, canvas with underpainting, loads of scratch paper, newspaper… check.
… well, I only finally tweaked it today. It was finished since Monday… err, Tuesday morning. The wee, ungodly hours of Tuesday morning.
Hush (2010)
Acrylics on canvas
16″x20″
I hope I can get a better photo of this. Maybe at the exhibit? 
Need to doodle something pronto! I will not lose to the likes of you, real life! … wait a minute…
That took entirely too long. I am so scared to do the face. You have no idea. I am about to go shade that right now! … after I take a sip from my cup of coffee.
When there’s coffee, you know it’s serious business.
Studies for a painting for one of my classes. What am I doing painting when I’m not even a painting major? Ask my professor!
In all seriousness, he wants us to experience what it’s like to have an exhibit. If I remember correctly, he’s going to run us through the ins and outs of how to hold an exhibit as well.
I’ve tried painting in acrylics before for Figure Drawing class. I did horribly. I’ve never painted anything larger than roughly the size of regular office paper. We need to do a 16″x20″ painting. As I type this, I’m making a rough digital study of what I’ll be putting to canvas. Will I succeed?
Hello! I realize I failed to mention on sites other than my blog (that is not of the sketch) that I’ve gone on a temporary hiatus from the entire internet for the month (or till March) for I have a LOT of catching up to do in uni!
I’m still trying to do Draw Everyday February but alas, I will admit right now that I have failed a couple of days. But I will still try, because that’s the point of it! Funny how the greatest artistic challenges are held during my hell months. Man!
I do have a few things to post (mostly college work) but for now have a preview of the Flash instructional thing I am working on:
Who might this be?
I CURSE TWEENING FOREVER.
Be back for real soon!
Sense? There is none.
I love them plate titles. ;P This one is from back in early December. Not much to say other than this is another acrylic wash plate where we had to try to get “thin or anorexic” and “fat or obese” proportions down. Pretty happy with the guy, and I know the girl, even strictly following the reference I had, looks weird. I really need to work on drawing fingers.
And I know her head might look a bit small, but it was a sacrifice I had to make to make this thing look like a scene… well, as much sense as a woman in a swimsuit turning around just in time to witness a fat man in a tutu waltzing past her while “Tiptoe Through The Tulips” plays in the background would make.
Still didn’t quite have the hang of acrylic wash here (still very inexperienced with the medium). I need to be more careful and use less contour lines as possible. Economy of lines, as my prof coins it.
Plotting. Literally.
This next one, about child proportions, from early January turned out much better. 
I started becoming braver with the acrylic wash here, layering it down much more solidly. Granted I still need to work on gesturals in general, especially since I tend not to notice mistakes until I’m midway into a drawing. Pretty happy about this one.
References are from Veer and FlickR.
Your regular February Draw Everyday Challenge posts will resume tomorrow! (This is not part of it. ;P)
"WHOO!"
Click on thumbnail to view larger size. As with the last two parts, it’s Faber-Castell colored pencils on Reeves acrylic paints.
WHOO!
Third and last part of the 3-part plate, and the one I had the most fun on. I always thought caricatures would be super freaking hard… I had no idea they would be so freaking fun!
Gotta give my prof credit, he never reacted to any of my reference pictures. He is a man of steel!
Also especially proud of this: my first ever grade of 1.0 in this class!
Faber-Castell colored pencils on Reeves acrylic paints.
Click to full the view thing.
Second part of the three-part plate back in November. While I know most would go “OH MY GOD YOU DIDN’T GIVE HIM BACK HIS NOSE”, we had to make the idealization somewhat realistic or feasible. I used a magazine picture of him as reference by suggestion of my professor.
I was still too scared to go darker with the shading at this point. Could’ve gone less dark with the corsage, maybe… it turned out looking even darker in the scanner. Oopsies.
Reeves acrylics, with some Faber-Castell colored pencils for details.
Click to view the full version.
This is part one out of three of one of our Figure Drawing plates, from back in November. We had to pick a celebrity and make an objective portrait, an idealized portrait, and a caricature. This, as you can tell, is the objective. I picked Michael Jackson for obvious reasons… just… look at him.
This is my first decent acrylic wash. First time using colored pencils over acrylic wash, too. I think it can still be improved as I think it looks a tad bit too light, but this is a big step forward in comparison to my first plates. I tend to make things either too dark or too light, so I was very paranoid while doing this entire plate, laying on super light layer after super light layer.
My last dry media plate (as far as I remember) from my Figure Drawing class.
Howdy! Like I said in the last post, I took some photos of my figure drawing plates from my first semester (around June-September). These are in dry media. It’s definitely one of my more difficult classes. I do hope there has been some progress since I first started.
Why did I start with my last plate? Because I think slowly but surely I make a lot of progress, no matter how small it may be. Hence, you can see the jarring difference when I show you my first plate. Whoop!
Please take note that most of these are huge - sketchpad paper is usually 12″x18″, while the brown paper is even bigger. That’s why I had to take photos. Unfortunately, I completely forgot about my camera slapping dates and times on pictures. When I figured out how to turn it off, it was too late.
I scanned in the last three (including the above) because I think they turned out pretty good.