Month: September 2021
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Big cup for a cold morning
Charcoal portrait of Reddit user gfykay, using Procreate on the iPad, based on this photo. I have a thing for coffee cups. I don’t know what that’s about, it just is. Her picture was a delightful tease, and she gave me permission to do a painting of it. I think the results are reasonably good.…
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Pedro Pascal
Portrait of Pedro Pascal, done in Procreate on the iPad using charcoal brushes. The reference image is from the movie Prospect, which is a great piece of cinema veritas for a grungy, awful future. I think the piece turned out pretty good, although the helmet reflections are weak. It probably wasn’t obvious, but the last…
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Donnie Yen
Charcoal portrait of martial arts superstar Donnie Yen, done in Procreate on the iPad. There’s something bugging me about this one. It doesn’t feel right, but I can’t put my finger on what it is. Mechanically, there’s a handful of problems. I picked an orange base layer color that was deliberately outlandish, something I’ve seen…
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Adam Driver
This week I was practicing sketches of heads using a simplified form of the Loomis method. At first I was pretty unimpressed with my efforts, so I went and collected some reference pictures. That gave better results, particularly my little sketch of Adam Driver. It was good enough that I decided to elaborate it into…
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Emilia Clarke
Another charcoal portrait, this time of actress Emilia Clarke, who will probably always be chased by the name “Khaleesi”. Here, she is portraying a young Sarah Connor from Terminator Genisys. Not a good movie! She has some pretty amazing lips, though. That’s something I’ve been trying to work on in my faces lately. I was…
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This is America
Charcoal portrait of Donald Glover, aka Childish Gambino, from the video “This is America”. This was my first attempt at a charcoal portrait. This kind of work doesn’t really allow for blending, which I tend to do a lot of. I wouldn’t have been able to pull it off without my recent work in trying…
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Phoebe Waller-Bridge
Quick painting of Phoebe Waller-Bridge, creator of Fleabag and a bunch of other brilliant television properties. I fell in love with the slightly worried look she projected in the picture. I did this at the end of a week of practice sketches, none of which is good enough to share. I wanted to have something…
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Touchy
An experiment in painting with a very limited color palette, inspired by Aftyn’s “Sensual touchy relax time” video, which is pretty monochromatic. Given that it was my first time trying it, I shouldn’t give myself a hard time over how hard a road this painting took to becoming reality. This was a labor. It does…
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Teknekt
Portrait of Reddit user teknekt for the DrawMe subreddit. I’m not entirely sure what pulled me into this piece, but it was fun to draw. This was my first time going for a kind of “wet” look to the paints. I like the messiness and expression they give, although I’d probably be better served applying…
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Leg massage
This is a painting of Aftyn Rose from the Legs and feet massage video. This is another picture I thought I might be able to tackle, despite the wealth of little details, and I think it turned out pretty good! I must say, though, if I never have to paint those Rhode microphones again, I’ll…
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Wet dress
That Pink kitten painting went well enough that I was emboldened to try and do a painting with translucency. I’m still making progress with converting reference images to sketches, and to painting with those sketches. Edge lines aren’t nearly as bad these days. My color blending with Procreate has improved substantially, although I saw another…
