Beard Clippings

[Patrick Gaumond]

Thanks ben! I really hope by the end of 2015 I'll be able to live off freelancing or at least have a decent income from it. First I gotta get some jobs and maybe an actual portfolio lool

Thanks caisne! It was a lot of fun to do. Dave's tutorial was very informative for 5 bucks

Some more work.
A food dog sketch before bed;

A quick face study and a longer one. Every once in a while, I like to spend a long while copying a photograph as closely as I can, just to see how my observation skills have changed. I normally don't recommend doing this as an actual study, it's more as a benchmark to make note of change.I used to spend 18-20 hours on a single face, and not even come close to getting it right. Now i can spend 2 hours and get a good result, or 5-6 hours to get a very accurate result. It's still not 100% perfect but its close enough for me. The challenge now is to translate that into imagination work!

Some perspective work and applying the basic values
And some ship sideviews with simple renderings, applying some more juicy matte surface knowledge! Unfortunate that the scan isn't so great, but oh well