Month: April 2022
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Succulent
Portrait of Reddit user succulentslut96, painted in Procreate on iPad. I started to think I wanted to try painting someone with curly hair and this lady really jumped out at me. Look at her eyes! Or eye, at any rate. Incredible! I took a few runs at her hair, unsatisfied with the results each time.…
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Fairies
Portrait of Aftyn from the video “Sharing my fairies with you”. It’s a luminous and sweet, gentle video, although apparently there’s no good way for me to link it here. Anyway, I’ve cropped the framing on this to emphasize her as the subject. The portrait comes on the heels of a little string of failures…
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Dynamic poses, part 1
This week I continued with the Love Life Drawing figure studies. They keep adding new references. I may never catch up! I’ve been finding the sketch results more aesthetically pleasing than the painted ones, which tells me I need more practice at the paints. Simplification with paint… how do you do it?
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Weekly grab bag
I did a bunch of different kinds of work this week. I continue to do these quick-ish paints of the figure drawing references from the Love Life Drawing set. I keep experimenting with different ways of painting and/or sketching. The above sketch turned out quite nicely, I think. I still need to work on control…
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Rust for embedded C programmers
I got a new laptop recently, so when a friend challenged me to write a little toy encryption algorithm, I needed to set up for writing code from scratch. Now that the world has basically standardized on Visual Studio Code as the IDE of choice, the Rust gang has been able to make solid strides…
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Christy, part 2
Continuing the rapid painting series with Christy. I find myself trying out slightly different techniques in each picture, searching for what will and won’t work for me. I haven’t been zooming in and applying detail to the faces, and it hurts to do. I hate every one of these faces. They don’t look a thing…
