Red-Winged Blackbird

I was back at it with another bird video today.





This is the finished painting. Going dark with watercolors has always been tricky for me. I think this turned out pretty well, though. At the very least, it was a confidence booster to go bold and dark in the future.

Royal Albatross

Welp, this long neglected blog is about to get... less neglected. I'll try my darndest to post a little more frequently starting with this thing I made. I've never done anything with video before, and this was a lot of fun. I think it's a more interesting platform for my bird series, so I'll probably be doing more. Enjoy!

Illustration Friday

I haven't had a post in a really long time, and even longer since I participated in IF, but I'm turning over a new leaf (fingers crossed). I was working on these birds for another project, but I thought they fit the topic this week.

Perkins Sketching

Well, it's been a while, but I think I'm ready to start posting again. I've got a bit of new stuff, not a lot, but some. This bunch of sketches were done on a Perkins run almost a month ago. I'll try to post something a little more exciting next time.

Edit: I think Blogger feels a little jaded and for whatever reason the image is huge. I'll try and figure it out later.

STOP! It's Pin Up Time

Here's a recent pin up project I've been working on. I never really do this kind of work, but I've been pretty happy with the results so far.

This was my first real attempt at doing a pin up. It was for a painting class project 3 years ago. At the time, I was thrilled with how it turned out. Sometimes I love looking back at old work and being completely disgusted with it. It's a good way to gauge progress I guess. I can still find some merit in this particular painting, but I love being able to completely rip it apart with a fresh eye.

More Figure Painting

I took my Wacom with me to open life drawing again. The first pose that I got in on was the head shot on the left. We worked on it for 30 minutes, then another 20. Somehow I accidentally saved over the whole 50 minute pose, but luckily I still had the first 30 minutes saved elsewhere. Sometimes I really hate computers.

Forgetful Me.

Well, I'm sitting in my studio watching an old Bob Ross video and it occurred to me that I scanned in a doodle I did at open life drawing the other night. This was drawn with Prismacolor Col-erase pencils. Had I known it was going to be a long pose I would have brought actual colored pencils or maybe watercolors. Never the less, the col-erase pencils worked great.