Peter's Sketchbook

[Peter]

Here's the painting from life that I did last week from the Wednesday classes. Decided not to transfer my lay-in from the first week onto the surface  like I did last time and instead decided to do my lay-in with my brush from the live model which was alot harder than I thought. Took me about just over an hour to get my lay-in done and block in my middle value.

Mostly used my bristle brushes for the majority of the painting and just used a sable brush to soften some edges like on the cheek. My original plan was to use phaloe blue with ivory black and titanium white but I wasn't sure how to mix my values. Do I mix the blue and black to make a chromatic black and then mix that with white to get my different values or is the blue by itself one of your values? Gonna ask on the Watts forum and see if someone can explain it to me, anyway went with burnt umber and titanium white.






Poster

I'm officially done with this poster, still haven't finished it, prob around 80% there but I'm just running into so many issues with the colour seperations and Illustrator. Basically I inked it in illustrator, took it into photoshop to colour it and then I tried taking it back into illustrator to fill oclour some areas like the leaves since it would be much quicker but it's not working for me. Been watching a video to help me with it and tried following along with it but what he did in the video was not working for me at all even though we did the exact same things.




I'm going to go back to studying this week since it's been about a month and do some reading up (or watch some videos) on how to use illustrator for what I want to do and next time I try something i'll do something small scale like only doing a screen printed head and build up from there.