Here's another one of Sabrina, who stayed to pose for the night's digital illustration class.... The little quick sketches are rough for me; I usually need much, much longer to get anything that looks like a form down. If I can just get the form to roll and the values correct in that short time, I consider it a win.
Read Moreanother oil painting
One week, she had light brown hair; the next, she'd dyed it that color I have a particular loathing for -- the burgundy red not found in nature, which is so inexplicably popular with women I know. It looks wretched, fake, plastic, and makes your skin look dead.... When I become Bitch Queen of the Universe, I'm making dying your hair this color a flogging offense.
Read More20 Design Reminders: #2 -- Communicate; don't decorate.
Or a poster where you could barely make out what the message was from underneath all the grungy ink marks?... If you haven't, let's watch it now: Now, with the first couple of modifications to the packaging, it looks like communication is happening: feature descriptions are added, bullet points added, OS requirements… all well and good, yes? But then, something happens, That video's an object lesson in what happens when you try too hard to communicate, and end up decorating.
Read Moretribal bellydancer painting
I'm very happy with how this one turned out, and Sabrina, the model, liked it too, which was a great compliment.... It's interesting to me how the paintings of models I know and get along with turn out whole orders of magnitude better than the ones where I don't know the model at all. There's something about making that connection that helps me immensely in getting a read on who they are and what they're about, and I think it shows in the resulting work.
Read Moresaturday morning
It's Saturday morning, and I'm trying to get myself fully awake. This is difficult to do when you realize halfway through a mug of tea, that you've picked the really tasty rooibos tea with vanilla in it… which has no caffeine. I probably need to just make myself a cabinet with a timer lock, and then put all the decaf stuff in it, and set the timer to only unlock after 5 p.m., so that I can't do this to myself again. This makes mornings really hard.
The Caravaggio study is still drying, and I can't put anymore paint on top of it until that grisaille layer's dried. Not that I'd have learned that the hard way in attempts #1 and #2, or anything. Now to tackle the rest of the drawing homework, before I head to the studio, where I'll paint in the afternoon, and do the digital work at night.
Back to homework.
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