Alright folks, getting down to the wire on the portfolio pieces portion of the challenge. (Even if I have fallen slightly behind) This one was done for two fold reasons. The first being to have a concept styled drawing that is finished enough it could also be used as a spot illustration. The other was [...]
This is the beginnings of my Week 5 posts. Coming in at the end of Week 6. There is a make up week coming for this week, so I’ll be drawing furiously to catch back up. Hopefully posts will follow at a quicker clip. This past week saw a day trip up to D.C. to [...]
Okay, so currently I’m a full half week behind. However I believe I’ve learned a lot of things in my failures over the last ten or so days. The first being I’m not nearly fast enough to work a traditional painting at a commercial pace. Also I may need to hit the old drawing board [...]
I’ve finally had the time to go back and start reworking this poster project. The previous incarnation to me felt a little stiff, like I’d forced so much stuff into the image none of it had room to move. So beyond a compositional reshuffle I tried to add a little more oomph to the characters. [...]
By now I should have been posting updates to my process post stuff. With pictures where you could actually see what’s going on. Instead I’ve gone to ground on it and decided I just didn’t think I was producing something that was as interesting as it should be.
It’s the double edged sword of personal [...]
Recently there have been a lot of cool things developing that have pulled me away from this project. (A blog post will be coming soon).
However this is what was on my table tonight to paint.
A bit of a jump ahead from the last post. I’ve been a bit lacking in getting stuffed scanned for posting. Instead this is a photo taken from my phone of how this looks sitting on my drafting table. This is the first part of a larger project I’m working on. Ink, gouache, pencil, colored [...]
