Start of 1st Quarter Project

The quarter is flying by so its time to start crunching on our personal projects.  I started this 4 days ago.

 

Upcoming Show

My work is going to be shown at the West Seattle Real Estate Associates Office next month.  The opening will be on Thursday November 10th 6-9 pm and the show will stay up through the month.  Hope you can make it.

Seattle Real Estate Associates Office
4535 44th Ave SW
Seattle Wa 98116

Word of the Week

Freak (word was initially Star Wars...)

quick JL sketches

I was watching Justice League reboots pop up on the DresdenCodak blog and got inspired. 

Some LifeRoom Studies

For the past few weeks I've been working very slowly on a Xenia Hausner mastercopy and have spent way too much time on the word of the week assignments.  A million things to do and no time to do it. So when in doubt, here's some liferoom drawings from this quarter...

I've been experimenting with different techniques.  My norm thus far has been vine or willow on newsprint for shorter poses and hard charcoal pencils and a stump on strathmore charcoal paper for sustained poses.  Now I'm changing it up.  I saw a youtube demo where an artist drew a portrait, wiped it out, then redrew another version over the ghost image and repeated the process, slowly building up value as he did.  This is my attempt at that.  For portraits, it a fast way to go because all the the subtle values happen on the own instead of needing to stump my way over everything.

 This is my standard stump + hard charcoal pencil on Strathmore

Here's my attempt at Henry Yan's method, vine/compressed/med charcoal pencil on newsprint.  His thing all boils down to just being really good, working really fast, and line quality.  He's my idol so the plan is to keep working like this for awhile.

Word of the Week

Fire (i don't know how to use photoshop so the color balance is off.  my bad)

Word of the Week

SuperHero
(where the good captain kicks Satan out of Wallstreet)

Oil Paint!

The following is the beginning of me learning how to use oil paints!  Well, it turns out it's hard, and there are a lot of colors out there...and thinners.  It's complicated, and very easy to bite off more than I'm able to handle.  Sooo, I'm doing lots of basic exercises and will most likely keep doing them until I become comfortable with the medium.  I'm definitely learning a lot with each one, but the road is long.
 

Word of the Week

Nature

Word of the Week

Mechanics