Sula's Sketchbook

[Ursula Dorada]

@JakeB: thanks :D Working on that hehe
@Wla91: hey man, thanks for stopping by again! Thanks <3

So!
I had my first professional portfolio review and it wasn't as bad as I was expecting.
One of the crits I got that definitely got me thinking is that my work still has this airbrushy feeling to it, and I should work more confidence into my brushwork. He suggested me to do this exercise: paint and apple with only 5 brushstrokes/marks allowed per apple.

It's quite hard, not to say abstract sometimes.
I am not even sure I am doing this right haha
Gotta keep trying.


{edit}
Some pretty useful feedback I just got from Doug Hoppes (a dear colleague from Chris Oatley's class! Check his work out: http://www.hoppesstudio.com/ )
" The basic technique for minimum strokes is to see everything as really large shapes. So, to do this, separate the light plane and the dark plane. The way that I would approach the problem is that you would have one stroke for the top, one stroke for the area between the top and middle and then three vertical strokes for apple body (Left, middle, side) and then one stroke for the bottom (That would be six). This is an interesting test...."