Sketchbook. Feedback is Welcome.
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@Pamela-Fraley Just saw these--very nice expressive drawings. I am a mom of four trying to be an artist too. It did not occur to me that the lady at the table was a teen. Oh no. I recognized her as a mom!
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@anthemsweet ha! Yea, were way past teen angst here. That's a mom day.
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Just a couple of recent projects. -
This is a stylized portrait I did today of Jessica Chastain. I was sick and in the couch all day, so I thought I'd practice pushing realism with a pencil sketch. Why not?
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business card ideas. Self portrait... I think I shouldn't look so severe. It's a work in progress. -
You're style is so fresh. I really like the energy in your line and the use of color. Nice work!
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Took me forever to get this uploaded. All of my pictures are apparently the wrong size or file type.
Anyway, Ive been watching classes as much as I can and I decided to try out gouache painting with a composition study. Snow White - that moment when it seems like the end of the story. Hope is lost...Here's the first one with everything done wrong. I tried to make it look good. I took my time, but its the straight on face and setting and everything. Is there ever an appropriate time to do this? Thoughts?
I definitely messed up on her flowers too. I feel like they are a distraction. But, I don't hate the whole piece. I am planning to do another one in the next few days and make it more of a profile maybe. (Also - maybe not quite so bright) I might change her look a bit too... I'll gladly take any feedback and or composition suggestions to make this scene better. Thanks everyone!
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I think the girl is done very nicely. If you watch the spring critiques Lee White talks about how the great children's illustrators have most of their images turned to a 3/4 view and color keyed. You might try that with this image go with a 3/4 view and 3 point perspective.
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@evilrobot I will have to look at that. I've watched a lot of the classes. The perspective ones several times. It hurts my brain.
but I can try. So, you think looking down on her, bit with 3/4 view and 3point perspective? Or were you thinking I should try the more profile version like that? Also, the color thing you mentioned? Is that a photoshop thing? -
Ok if anyone saw my first Snow White piece here's some thumbnails for the new version. I'm terrible at perspective, but I'm going to try anyway. Any thoughts on which? Or should I do something different from these? I don't mind cropping in close, but I don't want to go too far out the other way. I want people to see who it is. Also, I'm going to work on the colors so they make more sense with the feel of the scene. Not so bright.
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*These are for the Mel Milton stylizing Portraits class.*Just a couple stylized celebrity portraits I did this week. I feel so much more comfortable sticking with pencil than trying to color things. Art is haaaaarddd!
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Edited this post. Forgot to mention this was for the Mel Milton class. He was very encouraging to watch and I loved that he let himself do several passes at the portrait because he's trying to work out what he wanted to focus on. For me it's usually eyes.
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@Pamela-Fraley I love the one of the girl with her head on the desk--reminds me of my 16 year old after a long test. lol
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@lmrush that was me having a mom day. But I see the teen thing too.
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@Suzy-Heitz thank you!
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Finished watching the crown. It was super interesting. Been wanting to paint this all week and finally got a few minutes to myself.
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This was so hard! A friend asked me to try a watercolor portrait of her kids. I agreed of course, because I'm crazy and it's just that far outside of my comfort zone and I want to learn. Anyway, many hours / days later and a few tears and fits of frustration... my husband told me I needed to be done because I was getting nit picky and he thought it looked good. Here it is.
Thankfully my friend loves it and is coming to collect it from my house today so I can stop driving myself crazy looking at it.
