Besides constantly drawing looking and analyzing art besides your own helps improves your skills tremendously.
Practically everyday I look at art, I say Pintrest and Instagram are the blackholes of productivity at times.
Especially Pintrest. Pintrest has stuff you can't find in google image search. Last year I saved over 20,000+ images and art stuff just from my phone.
This improvement was apparent this week. The last time I attended the Portrait Group was around the middle of November and we started back up in January. Coincidently these last few sessions we had the same model Karen. She always comes in full costume, that is hand made by her. I still have a ways to go to be where I want but its a step forward.
I'm usually good with names and faces if a person introduces themselves. Amazingly enough for the first 3 years I remembered all the models I drew....I could look at the drawing and identify who it was...Now I can't unless someone is a regular model at the group.
One thing I did differently was use a limited palette. I used mostly earth tones and 1-2 primary colors. To get a flesh tone with a pale person there is a hint of light blue. My mentor suggested I try to do that a while back to not get distracted with too many colors and such.
For example I did not have white on my palette but an off white of grey and burnt umber. Nor did I have black, one of my favorite color combinations from school is burnt umber and ultramarine blue gives you a colorful strong black color than straight out of the tube.
Painted in under 2 hours. Usually I come in late and then we take breaks in between.
One on of the breaks I was like hold that natural pose! Can I take a picture for reference.
I think modeling people in their natural gestures is good and tells a lot about a person. Also its cool she is in theater and hand makes her costumes!
Practically everyday I look at art, I say Pintrest and Instagram are the blackholes of productivity at times.
Especially Pintrest. Pintrest has stuff you can't find in google image search. Last year I saved over 20,000+ images and art stuff just from my phone.
This improvement was apparent this week. The last time I attended the Portrait Group was around the middle of November and we started back up in January. Coincidently these last few sessions we had the same model Karen. She always comes in full costume, that is hand made by her. I still have a ways to go to be where I want but its a step forward.
I'm usually good with names and faces if a person introduces themselves. Amazingly enough for the first 3 years I remembered all the models I drew....I could look at the drawing and identify who it was...Now I can't unless someone is a regular model at the group.
One thing I did differently was use a limited palette. I used mostly earth tones and 1-2 primary colors. To get a flesh tone with a pale person there is a hint of light blue. My mentor suggested I try to do that a while back to not get distracted with too many colors and such.
For example I did not have white on my palette but an off white of grey and burnt umber. Nor did I have black, one of my favorite color combinations from school is burnt umber and ultramarine blue gives you a colorful strong black color than straight out of the tube.
November and January
Painted in under 2 hours. Usually I come in late and then we take breaks in between.
One on of the breaks I was like hold that natural pose! Can I take a picture for reference.
I think modeling people in their natural gestures is good and tells a lot about a person. Also its cool she is in theater and hand makes her costumes!
This would play on the tougher boss battles in game.
The instrumental is just as good.
My boss took off yesterday and
my co-worker and I were jamming to this among
other things. Volume louder than the usual.
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