Amphibian friend - three

Amphibian friend - two

Amphibian friend - one

Recent sightings have got me back sketching frogs and toads. A few weeks break have left me a little out of practice . . perfect!

Jon Jones - draft

Girl portrait 3 - draft

Portrait two

Paints up next.

Blocks two

More roughs coming up soon.

Sekaido - draft deadline

And just like that, you've got to know when to put down the pencils and pick up the paints. Far from perfect but it's solid enough at this point to work over.

The perspective is a little off but a deadline is a deadline.

And then this.

Half cat, half .. half. I'd seen a few ideas recently that is been looking to replicate.. None of which have come out on top but the drip effect is something I need to pursue. 

Honoring to apply a dripping effect to the Sekaido piece if time permits.

Slicing and Dicing

Settled on a theme, time to get pencil to pad.

After a bit of experimenting with grids, dabbled with the sliding pixels.

Cubes add depth to the work - previous attempts pixelating visuals into 2d didn't work out. 

Maybe it's getting a little muddled, but dripping and drooling is gonna add to that floating effect.

Sketching

Haven't had much time recently to get paints down but managed a quick sketch for later.

Tones

Wanted to go as rough as possible for this piece. 

The parts that give description to the features always get my attention - in this case the hair.

Once the appealing parts are covered I generally blaze through the rest leaving a bit of a monstrosity.

11pm

It's 11 at night but had to get this piece down.

Moving from geometric shapes to the human form - it's easy to get locked down into a phase but I'm hoping the next piece will bridge the two.

Sketch came out ok so that's always a good omen.

Pixel Perspective

This kind of free hand perspective is closer to what I'm going for.

Now the proportions are a little more on point I can begin work on shading.

Already ideas are buzzing for application with 8bit pixelated characters.

More Pigeons

I legit saw a pigeon land on its head like that.

Love drawing pigeons, and the single line works a great for them. 

Just some ideas but I'm liking the crowds a lot. As a simple study but also as a kind of pattern too.

Birds on the brain

Studying bird anatomy a little went a long way this month. I'm certainly no Dr. Frankenstein, but even simple knowledge of head one connected to the neck bone have made life drawing fun again.

McDonalds coffee cups aren't what they used to be..

The curvature of the vertebra - improved spacial awareness.

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.

Wrinkles

Sekkaido - Final Sketch

The previous sketch seemed a little too simple, so decided to build more layers and textures.

Also insects are going to break up the colours a little, as will the sleeping women.

 Composition was tough, but once the sketch is there, it's a huge weight of my shoulder. 

Speed Acrylics

Not happy with the actual result, but the main thing is to learn and take forward. originally I was thinking the composition with the sketch wasn't too bad.

Looking back, the eyes could've been better. Symmetry is once again the monkey in my soup.