The Velvet Revolvers

[Jeso]

So You guys know brad rigney right? I was watching his tutorial Hostile take over" And, He says that he doesnt use reference at all when he paints, he does a ton of study mind you, but he never keeps a reference open when painting. That I find... just I dont even know how to call that, like how do you achieve that, the dude doesn't use reference and he paints hyper real shit, out of his ass pretty much.
Were im going with this is, I should try it, make a finished painting with no reference open, see what happens. Study a shit load just prior though. And when studying, try to push shit to a finished lvl. I think that was key, during Brad's training.

Here is an arm I painted using his smudging technique. The next step would be to do that from imagination, but i was stupid, I didn't manage time well today, at all. Been depressed really, loneliness does that to you. I'm just here at home, and all I do every single day is, draw, eat, watch some tv. Paint in oils, and sleep. Repeat, I see my family, but, I dont go out, meet new people, do shit, thats wearing me down a lot lately. But fuck it, Trying to push that shit aside. I digress... Here is the arm, haha not that impressive though.



And This stupid painting, that is taking me forever. I dont know why, I think I worked on this at least 3 hours today. My second session, and still a ways to go. I need to make a rock solid schedule for my life.

Now this is all fucked up right now, I know that, mouth is the worst, but fuck it, lets see what I can fix tomorrow, and be done with it. move on to the next one. You gotta fail to learn.





Also where the hell is everybody?