Sketches 14

Some more sketches. Definitely getting some practice doing portraits with lots of lighting I would never dream up. 

The End

The End

I used the setup shown in a previous post  here  to create this by destroying that.  I used it to have some fun fooling around with the lighting. 

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Two more sketches from Avatar. Trying to keep these fast 15-30 minutes  but portraits are taking about 1 hour.

Before the End

Before The End

After doing a couple of interior studies I wanted to try the little I learnt into practice.  This image started as something completely different.  I was going to do it as an abandoned space but before I reigned some destruction I thought I had better construct it first. This is the before image. 

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Some more very quick sketches from screenshots.   

Interior 2 -abandoned church

Abandoned church interior

Wanted to practice doing some interiors.  Here is the first effort.  Battling edges all the way.  The reference for this study was found here.  The photographer is David Tribby, 

Self Critique

 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

Sketches 11

Some more sketches.  First is from a screenshot and the second is a derivative of it.

Jump!

 

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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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.