Fedodika the Koala

[Fedodika]

Mr. Berndt: Thank you alot for this suggestion! i got a lot of mileage out of it in the past couple of days whilst painting some loomis heads. Im starting to get the feel for how one would work with layering, and just how important it is to have confidence in the strokes one is putting down (and accuracy.) My plan is to do a couple small leyendecker studies on these small canvases in the coming days to practice tiling and try to do less blending and scrubbing and try to just mix the right colors on the pallete since i dont want to be scrubbing off paint when  i much prefer the look of thicker strokes. Its just something i gotta adapt to, though the examples you provided are marvelous. also, if you get the time, your advice youve given to a lot of artists here could benefit a wide audience, maybe consider putting your work into some sort of permenant archive, as it could be a masterclass in itself, even if the person cant see whose work youre critiquing.


Heres more bails and fails from old fedo, the 2 (skewed and bad female) portraits are loomis copies. The paint is very thin on them and i was getting the feel for how to lay tones down and scrub them off to get a white value; this proved to be just what i was missing on; control over the white value mainly. The portrait with the scrubbed out mouth is a leyendecker study, i kept screwing up the mouth so i just wiped it off, disappointed in myself i went back home to go to bed. However, my parents reacted more positively to this painting that any traditional work i'd ever done. They thought it was brilliant for some reason, the fact it has no mouth. So that was a pleasant surprise, they actually encouraged me not to add the mouth, so i guess I wont!

The figure study has a few issues with it, mainly the tilt is kinda stiff in the torso, the  leg shapes and proportions are a tad short or too long here and there. a couple other things... i'll probably end up doing these again next year theyve been so fun. the other drawings are crap from life drawing, looks way better before i take a photo of it, as usual. All the problems just immediately appear once i take a photo, or even hold my camera up to it. It's like it makes me think of the image as an actual JPEG which is funnily enough the way ive viewed most images in my adult life. That's basically the mirror trick for me is just the photo lens; if only i had a robot eye that made everything a jpeg as i drew it, that'd be helpful, i guess thats a nother crutch of digital is it trained me to see everything with that instant mirror flip to check that over and over. 

In other news, I'll be getting a brand new computer soon, its custom made, i had a technician help me pick things out. also shoutout to Toxicpanda for showing her specs and giving me some ideas. It has a 32GB RAM a I9 processor, 16 TB Hard drive, and a bunch of other stuff, but altogether its about a 2k$ computer and its a freakin beast. Also got a nice Dell 32" Monitor on the black friday sale and grabbed marmoset toolbag on discount too. So when i get all this stuff, im going hard on some 3d. I really want to get familiar with 3d coat as i think this is what will make me employable. It'll force me to make my assets and characters look good, plus ill have all the cheats of digital and many more. being able to light and place these objects accurately will be invaluable to me, since i can paint things together, it may just be what i need to break through in a meaningful way. 

I'll still be doing lots of oil painting since theres a show i want to have that chloe painting done for in january, and may have a commission from a friend soon, which will help. Next year will be interesting with these new tools and ideas, so i hope i can at least make some money to pay off this investment. And if ya cant tell, i got a new keyboard, its mechanical, and really loud, I LOVE IT! clackety clkaclkekltlkclkalkelktlkalkcalkclakslkalskeylmkarsynl