Clarisse's sketchbook

[Clarisse Silva]

Doing still lifes is so much fun, and with this one, I feel like I've learned something. This took me a whole day to do and I want to do more BUT POINTLESS COLLEGE WORK WON'T LET ME AAAAAAAARGH D:

Still life with an apple, a nail polish, my phone, my sun glasses and an antique glass container with some almonds.



Pages from my sketchbook. I cant even ;__;







If I were a witch:




















Sketching with pink ecoline and nib. Bah





Half-reference/half-imagination sketch



Gesture drawing 1 minute



















And a WIP of an illustration. I'd love some critiques on this one particularly, specially about color and light; I'm having a hard time figuring out how this kind of backlighting works and how it affects the elements placed contre-jour, for example, the head.
Also, right now I'm basically doing selections for each element but I'm afraid that in the end it will get a "plastic" or "photoshop look", because I would like it to have a traditional feel. I plan to do in the end a layer on top with a general rendering for everything, but I'm not sure if this is "the right way" or, at least, an efficient way to work. So, if you want to share with me your habitual process of painting, please do, I'd love to have different alternatives to try :)