three's sketchbook

[three]

first serious attempt at painting in pretty much a year. one of the most frustrating experiences of my life... feel like I've forgotten everything and although I'm not happy with how it came out, I figure atleast I'm doing /something/. With any luck, I really hope I can only begin to improve again from here.

was originally inspired by some chunky gouache paintings in my inspiration folder and kind of tried to go for something similar. Though I got to a point where I felt like I was just painting-by-numbers and had a lot of harsh fields of colour without any blending or cohesion. I was impressed with my colour picking accuracy, especially after such a long break, but then I started looking at some schirmer step-by-steps, which inspired me to push the rendering, but I really didn't even know where to begin. Got frustrated, gave up.