Thursday, January 10, 2013

Self Critique



butterfly flowers

 When I am working on a piece I constantly try to take a step backward (literally and metaphorically)  and try to be as critical as possible.  Recently a blog I follow by George Perdue called A Painters Evolution had a great helpful list of questions to ask yourself when working.   Though the list is geared towards traditional methods the principals are the same.  Though most of the Blog is dealing with oil painting there are some great nuggets that can be applied to any medium. 

A Painter's Evolution: Self Critique
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Tuesday, January 8, 2013

Sketches 11




Some more sketches.  First is from a screenshot and the second is a derivative of it.
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Sunday, January 6, 2013

Jump!

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Jump!

This is an image I started towards the end of last year.  It was done just for practice.  Unfortunetly it was one of several images I started in quick sucession.  This left me struggling to complete any one.  Fortunethly Christmas holidays arrived and I was able to work to complete a number of them.









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Thursday, January 3, 2013

Sketches 10


Another screenshot sketch from Avatar.  To try and get the most from these I am going to try following them up with a sketch from imagination  using the same kind of image.  The lower image is the first effort at this. 
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