Michael Shannon - Final

Once the eyes are balanced, the whole piece comes together a little better. The light on the left side was something new.

Again usually capping my work at 2 hours creates mistakes but also pushes for broader strokes.

Tina Fey

One thing I've noticed, my accuracy stinks. Producing a life like painting is always fun, but to accurately convey the personality of someone is still out of my grasp.

Fingers crossed the Acylics will bring her to life.

Cherry

Looking at artist Gretchen Hancock's work allowed me to loosen the flat edge a little.

Achieving the blocky but descriptive simple strokes is where I'm looking to be.

Michael Shannon

Whilst lookin over portrait photos, this one of General Zod popped up and I couldn't resist.

Previously working predominantly with acrylics, a few failed pieces convinced me to go back to penciling firstly.

One problem is inconsistency in my strokes. Using the flat edge brush should lend itself to more blocky images.

Pixelate - Wink

Applying the pixelation during the first draft is much more difficult.

Requiring planning and awkward application of paints, it should create a unique look and a more incorporated colour scheme.

Sonic stop-ani

Step by step the running animation is getting closer to completion.

I hadn't realized what a huge task it would be, but keeping it as a side piece is helping keep the momentum.

Roughly each cell costs about 2500 yen "/

Pixelate - Portrait

Looking at different approaches to pixelating the pictures.

2D pixelation will be a good way to practice balance in composition and colour - what extent the piece can be pixelated.

Tetris - next

Far from perfect but became comfortable with these tetris kinda visuals.

Now to apply these to portraits.

Inu - 犬

First attempt.

Love cats and dogs to bits but painting realistic/semi-realistic hair is something I'd been shying away from. More to come!

Scrunching

I'm always pleased with whatever comes after scrunching paper.

Crude and simple but I love the shapes and emotions made from contorted paper.

I took a shot at origami a while back but found I just didn't have the patience..

As prep for the sonic animation I'll be making some stop animation using models like these.