WIP

The first test painting so far. Just flat acrylics at this point, keeping it simple for the next step which is the oil wash that will pull all the color together. The meat cleaver looks like shit right now, but that will change hopefully when I start the oil painting.

For the love of god

please kill your TV, else it's gonna kill you. Reality TV ruined everything. What the hell happened to Cheers, the Wonder Years and Rosanne. You know, the classics. And what about that one sitcom that tried to do it with dinosaurs. Basically prehistoric Rosanne.
Well that one kind of sucked.
Saw the bumper sticker the other night that says, " real men love Jesus." First of all I hate bumper stickers, esp religious and political ones. Or hippy ones. Basically all of them. But this one is asking for it. Its a slogan thats been around for a while but I think its time to kick that fat ass up a notch.

Life drawing Thrus

2 1/2 hours roughly.
Not super happy with the way the portraits came out, was focusing mainly on color I suppose. Still was a good sitting, actually pretty happy with my color, at least the skin tones since everything else is Grey ha! Gonna try and focus on getting better likeness next time and laying down more opaque, saturated color early on. Lets hope the rookie mistakes are out of my system next Thurs.

On my way to meet Jen and Melissa at the Ale now.

work in progress

A quick WIP before tonight's live session.

First test

Was a little to big for the scanner so I took a picture of this as well. The scan is a lil more finished with a few more blacks and details of pits and damage to the skull. Even though this one is a test I'll probably use the tracing paper the drawing is on for a final painting later. Might use this composition a few more times with random objects, maybe a pair of gardening shears, and some other things that are not so pointy, maybe fluffy.... cause it'd be silly I guess.

New set of ideas

Some drawings I did while trying to come up with a few new paintings. I wasn't super happy with what came out for the Wheeler open house and had to take a step back and really look at the way I've been working traditionally. I need more experience painting all in all, so I figure I'll start with what I know first before I try to make a big jump in my technique, especially when I have a dead line. This time I have no deadline, at least not for 3 months, so I'm gonna take my time on these and get reacquainted with working in a traditional manner that involves more painting tools rather than drawing.
Might be giving one of these to a friend, putting the others up in tattoo studios and in the store that I work at. Only 3 of these sketches really works for me and will be done in final, made some larger versions to point those out.
Yeah lots of flowers, tree branches, insert random object here. Have spent a lot of time doing too much stuff with symbolism and stories so I'm taking a break and just doing stuff that has shapes I like and interesting compositions and focusing more on technique to hone my skills. I'll get back to witches, kids and robots in a month after I get these done.
Saw the Wolfman Friday. Both me and the friend I went with fell asleep a few times. That's my movie review for you. Wasn't that bad, but it didn't wake me up either. Now I want to see Shutter Island.
Finally caught up on Lost. It's pretty damn good.
I'll be going to Thurs night modeling session again so look for that/those pic(s).
Out.

thurs night life painting

Went to a life painting session for the first time in way to long. Lugged my computer up there with me and finished this 2 1/2 hour drawing. Its taking a bit of time to get back into the swing of things, and as well this being the first time I was able to do the digital paint during a live drawing session. Was defiantly fun though and hope to have more for later.

Deity final drawing

Promises promises....

I swear I have stuff to talk about. Promise I really do, and I'm even gonna talk about it. Just right now I've been slacking ass on getting these drawings on a board to get em started. Gonna be working on the final drawing for one of them at work tonight, and maybe even a color comp. Hopefully gonna put these up in some local tattoo shops and anywhere else my weird crocodile mother witch stuff will fit in.

Deity

Check back soon, I got plenty to talk about, just not enough time to type it right now. The posts should be coming back on a regular basis, if not more so than before ( lets hope.) Going to be getting ready for the open house in May, heres some of the current ideas.

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I want a pet crocodile, just as a guard dog. And maybe to play Frisbee with.

Quick sketch

 I have a few sketches of ideas that I'm going to try and make some color comps for in Photoshop cs4, and some vector line work I really need to color. Been busy with the logo for my cousin still, I'll post some of the text in progress along with the most recent revision, as well as anything else I can find that I did this month but completely forgot to post. Hoping everyone's holiday was good, here's a quick sketch I did tonight, check back for more stuff in the next 2 days.

The open house

This first image is what I'm wanting my painting's to resemble more of. The attempt to make a classical painting was fun, but maybe just not the style of work I feel like doing at this stage. Look for more stuff like this, I did this one at 3am on wed this week and it just worked out well imo. I didn't have enough time to do some more like this, or at least that I felt as happy with, but I'll be working on variations of this style for the next upcoming open house.


The display at the open house last night. Some crappy pictures of the ink washes, I'll scan them in when I get them back and switch out these pictures for some better.

final painting

Got really bad about taking pictures and recording the process as this painting came out. There was definitely a point where I started painting by the seat of my pants, which isn't a horrible thing, but really doesn't help when your an inexperienced painter trying to get something done on time. I posted the last remaining pictures just for reference, but I think I won't be doing the rest of this series in this style. It feels to stiff, and just isn't the way I like to paint. I did some ink washes to put a lil more on the wall at the open house and I'm thinking one in particular is a good representation of what I'm wanting to do with these. I'll post that next.