01-03-2022, 02:11 AM
Long time no post........
Fell out of updating my sketchbooks the past few months, no real excuse really, took a break one week which became 2 weeks and so on and by the time I realised I hadn't posted in awhile I had far to much stuff that I needed to go back and photograph!
Since I last updated I've pretty much been working as usual, taking online classes at Watts and outside of classes attending life drawing classes and studying so not awhole lot has changed.
Rather than post every little thing I did I thought I'd just post a collection from the last 3 months.
Illustration
Painted the illustration I was working on last time in oil, actually took a week off work to get it done. Not the best photo I'm afraid. keep having issues with glare showing the brush strokes and in general getting the colours accurate which is odd as I don't seem to have this issue on my smaller painting studies. Definitely looking into it though and trying to fix it so Im ight post this one again once I've figured things out.
Portrait Painting
Last few protrait paintings from a class I took around Sept time. On the suggestion of the teacher I got some nylon brushes which I feel like have been a game changer for me.
Portrait Drawing
Some recent head drawings.
Graphite Drawing
Took a graphite class with Jeff which was alot of fun, didn't get the chance to finish it during the 5 week term, think I spent around 25-30 hours on it so far. Haven't decided if I should go back and finish it off or take what I learnt and move on.
Master Studies
My most recent paintings, working on some master studies, trying to break the images down shape and value wise and trying to understand their approach.
Edgar Payne
Prep Work
Step by step ish
Finish
Jules Lepage
Prep work
Current stage
Took a break over Christmas to relax and to sort out my plan for this year. Still have a lot that I need to work on (mainly my foundations/construction). Definitely not at the level where I can start trying to get illustration jobs and make it a career yet but I feel like I am on the right track.
My overall plan is to work on my weaknesses and make them my strengths starting with what I percieve to be my biggest weakness which is construction. Trying to line it up so that I can take classes that align with my weaknesses and tackle them during the 5 weeks so that I can get feedback and ask any questions, and then during the break between terms get a finished illustration done so that I can start building a body of work and simply repeat throughout the year.
For the last few months I've felt like I've been plateauing and abit lost with my studies, so I feel like making a plan of action will help put me on the right track.
Going to start getting into the habit of posting again starting this week, probably on the weekends due to my schedule, and start being more active again. :)
Fell out of updating my sketchbooks the past few months, no real excuse really, took a break one week which became 2 weeks and so on and by the time I realised I hadn't posted in awhile I had far to much stuff that I needed to go back and photograph!
Since I last updated I've pretty much been working as usual, taking online classes at Watts and outside of classes attending life drawing classes and studying so not awhole lot has changed.
Rather than post every little thing I did I thought I'd just post a collection from the last 3 months.
Illustration
Painted the illustration I was working on last time in oil, actually took a week off work to get it done. Not the best photo I'm afraid. keep having issues with glare showing the brush strokes and in general getting the colours accurate which is odd as I don't seem to have this issue on my smaller painting studies. Definitely looking into it though and trying to fix it so Im ight post this one again once I've figured things out.
Portrait Painting
Last few protrait paintings from a class I took around Sept time. On the suggestion of the teacher I got some nylon brushes which I feel like have been a game changer for me.
Portrait Drawing
Some recent head drawings.
Graphite Drawing
Took a graphite class with Jeff which was alot of fun, didn't get the chance to finish it during the 5 week term, think I spent around 25-30 hours on it so far. Haven't decided if I should go back and finish it off or take what I learnt and move on.
Master Studies
My most recent paintings, working on some master studies, trying to break the images down shape and value wise and trying to understand their approach.
Edgar Payne
Prep Work
Step by step ish
Finish
Jules Lepage
Prep work
Current stage
Took a break over Christmas to relax and to sort out my plan for this year. Still have a lot that I need to work on (mainly my foundations/construction). Definitely not at the level where I can start trying to get illustration jobs and make it a career yet but I feel like I am on the right track.
My overall plan is to work on my weaknesses and make them my strengths starting with what I percieve to be my biggest weakness which is construction. Trying to line it up so that I can take classes that align with my weaknesses and tackle them during the 5 weeks so that I can get feedback and ask any questions, and then during the break between terms get a finished illustration done so that I can start building a body of work and simply repeat throughout the year.
For the last few months I've felt like I've been plateauing and abit lost with my studies, so I feel like making a plan of action will help put me on the right track.
Going to start getting into the habit of posting again starting this week, probably on the weekends due to my schedule, and start being more active again. :)