[gallery] Portrait 11

[gallery] Crooked eyes, but I’m batting pretty high this weekend.

[gallery] Making progress.

[gallery] Been doing a portrait a day to try and get better with faces in general. Seeing a lot of good tutorials on youtube and think I’m making decent progress. This is the first of these that I’m even remotely comfortable showing (of 6.)

[gallery] I missed figure study tonight. Rather than sit idle and hit reload on tumblr a gazillion times; I thought it wise to open Burne Hogarth’s “Dynamic Figure Drawing” and sketch some of the less complicated (read: perspective) poses from the book. Most of the sketches turned …

[gallery] “Matterhorn 1”

[gallery] going to pretend to sleep now.

[gallery] Working on process a bit more so this one will hopefully come out a bit more finished than the first. Running the live stream tonight was kind of funny; I got audio working and opened the chat room. Some guy named Ben2015 came by and wanted me to paint him a picture of the lioness from the …

[gallery] Spent tonight working on a painting derived from a drawing done during Figure Study at ArtSpace Raleigh last month. I’m pleased with how it turned out. Still just really scratching the surface of both getting back into the figure; as well as Sketchbook Pro (which is a great little …

[gallery] Best of the night, also the final long pose.

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[gallery] Using the laptop and the WACOM tablet at Figure Drawing last night. I’m not sure at all about whether it works in that realtime kind of environment, but as the night wore on I could feel my hand starting to realize it was just another substrate. One big difference is that you have to …

[gallery] Working on the laptop getting the WACOM set up for figure drawing tomorrow night. Really excited to see how the tablet/computer with Sketchbook Pro works out during the gesture studies. They are 30 seconds a piece for 20 minutes straight, going to be frantic!