Tag: process
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Cameo
Sketch portrait of Aftyn Rose. Not so much a specific moment as just an attempt to represent her in sketch form with contour ink shading. I like how the shapes worked out. The shading style is still experimental, but I am starting to feel more in control of it. This is not at all similar…
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Speed drill
They say the key to improving your art is doing a bunch of it. Fill your sketchbooks! They also say you’ll learn more by doing several figures in an hour than spending that time on a single figure. So, I’ve decided to start a regular sketching drill. I give myself an hour and draw everyone…
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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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Tsundere kitten
Portrait of Aftyn Rose role-playing as a tsundere kitten. I painted this with acrylic brushes in Procreate on the iPad. I painted it after the figure drawing class to relax a bit from that push. It was fun to do, and it turned out pretty good. I went for a bit of a looser style,…
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littlemiddlemissy
A quick portrait painting of Reddit user littlemiddlemissy. I spent less time on this than most, and it shows — it’s definitely a bit rough. I’ve got a life drawing class starting Tuesday and wanted to clear the deck ahead of it. But I’m generally happy with it. Features are generally in the right place,…
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The Mummy Returns
Painting of a still from The Mummy Returns, featuring the wonderful Rachel Weisz, one of my favorite actors. This is done with the acrylic tools in Procreate on iPad. Are my brush strokes showing? Yes, they are! I’m pretty happy with the result here. I’ve had some other pieces at this distance that didn’t work,…
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Gamla Stan
Painting of Gamla Stan, part of Stockholm, Sweden. I was looking for some city scene reference photos to practice perspective drawing, and this was suggested by a friend. Look at those colors! That place is beautiful. I hope I can visit someday. I rather like the way it turned out. It took a long time…
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Sundogs
Painting of the sundogs atmospheric phenomenon, done in Procreate on iPad. The reference for this image was a photo taken by a friend of mine in Washington. It’s a lovely photo. I don’t think the painting does it justice exactly, but it’s hard to put my finger on why. It just looks a little rough…
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Yoko smooches
Portrait of Aftyn and her dog Yoko, who is apparently a very smoochy girl! I did it in Procreate on iPad with the charcoal tools. It’s a little bit of a step back in terms of developing my color sense. I started out trying to paint with gouache colors. I’ve done a little bit with…
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Voyager
Acrylic painting of my dog, Riley, done in Procreate on the iPad. I think it manages to capture his perpetually worried look. I think I did a good representing fur with the paints — mostly dabbing with a wet brush and a touch of dry brushing in the finishing phase. The fleece of his jacket…
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Sauna
Digital portrait of Finnish actor Ville Virtanen, done in Procreate on iPad. The reference is a production still from a very cool movie called Sauna. Those glasses he’s wearing really jumped out at me. They are probably my favorite prop in any movie ever made. I painted this one with the default acrylic brush. I…
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Erica Slaughter
Painting of Erica Slaughter, lead character from the great horror comic Something Is Killing the Children by James Tynion IV and Werther Dell’Edera. Dell’Edera has a rough, scratchy style that isn’t my usual jam, but combined with his design sense, it’s wonderful. He draws these evocative characters (look at those eyes!) in all kinds of…
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Anna Kendrick
Charcoal portrait of actress Anna Kendrick, done in Procreate on the iPad. I tried doing the sketch layers in charcoal this time, and while I think they are not disasters, I didn’t like it as the clean lines you get from pencil or ink sketches. I was trying to eyeball colors at first, and it…
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Linne Woods
This is my first landscape painting, done in Procreate on the iPad. If it weren’t for the fact it’s all digital, I’d call it “mixed media”. I used a lot of different kinds of brushes making this. My usual techniques weren’t working out for the more amorphous and textured look I needed. The reference for…
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Happy Halloween
Charcoal portrait of Aftyn as a witch from a few years ago, done in Procreate on the iPad. It’s safe to say I had much bigger plans for a Halloween picture than what I wound up with. There are 3 witches in that video, and I had intended to do a composition with all of…
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Samus
Samus Aran, star of Metroid Dread surveys her works. The game has been on my mind a lot lately. I’m in the final boss fight now, but it might be a while before I’m adept enough to beat it. This was a quick picture. I was trying to invent the lighting aspects, and it’s fair.…
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Relax in my lap
Charcoal portrait of Aftyn done in Procreate on the iPad. The colors on that satin robe were quite the challenge. I’m pretty pleased with this one. Much better than last week’s effort. I did 3 sketch layers for this one, which is unusual for me. It just took a long time to come together. I’m…
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Boosette
Charcoal portrait of Aftyn in a Boosette cosplay, done in Procreate on the iPad. I had this dumb idea about this one that didn’t really pan out, where she’d be dialed down to 50% opacity so you could see the environment through her. And then I didn’t put anything of interest in the background to…
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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.…
