Tetris panels - draft one

First in a series of panels looking at perspective.

Tetris - color concepting

Carrying on with this weeks trials, tried using a few different brushstrokes alongside the colour variants. Overall it's become clear that in order for everything to fit together, composition is critical.

30cm x 45cm / wood / acrylics

Some interesting tones in there to think on.

Tetris - background expansion finish

Pretty happy with the outcome. Although a lot has to do with block composition, the mixture of tones and directions with the back strokes really does bring a new dynamic to the piece.

25.5cm x 36.4cm (B4) wood / acrylics

Expansion one

Working on a larger scale is opening up space for more messing with tones and shapes. Moving away from A4 is definitely a step in the right direction.

Experimenting one

Trying out splatter effects to emphasise movement but not really feeling it. 

Sure there's room for improvement but I'm just not feeling it.

Tertis Blast

Baby steps at the moment but looking to get a bit messier with the backdrops. 

Working on the backdrops first is new to me so looking forward to the finished results.

Blocks two

More roughs coming up soon.

Blocks are back in

It's been a while since having time to go back to basics (albeit not so far back), but working on backdrops is where I'll be focusing my attention this month.

Getting loose and simply working with geometric shapes is quite simple but comes off as a type of meditation. Looking down at the board after 30 mins and having something like this happens a lot.

Tetris Fades

Found this guy half finished from last year, the perspective is way off but it'll give me a chance to try a couple of different shades and fades.

Tetris

Kinda got hunkered down with the Tetris type work last week. 

Was wondering what the next step could be, applying a full set of blocks at the base really detracted from the light source.

Gotto learn to be more patient with these, the final part got a little sloppy.

Pixel Perspective - (dropped for a minute)

Not quite there but gotto get on with some other pieces. Pretty solid backdrop color combo.

Tetris - next

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

Now to apply these to portraits.

Tetris Blocks - Experimenting

Some color combinations and experimenting.

Trying to improve my perspective work with some simple block / tetris themed patterns.

Although not perfect, the practice got me where I wanted - time to introduce pixels to the next pieces.

Tetris

Pixel Collision

If cubes become the focus for the next batch of work, light is going to play an integral role in bringing the piece to life.

A4 - Wood / Acrylics

Cubes themselves are simple to sketch, but ultimately boring without attention to lighting.

A4 - Wood / Acrylics

Harshly illuminating one area created some interesting ideas.

Tetris Pixelation

Applying Tetris inspired work to portraits was much more difficult that anticipated.

I missed a good chunk of drawing in perspective classes as a youngster and it shows.

Although I would like to look into robotic anatomy more thoroughly in the near future, at this point I'm going simply. Super simple, until competent with geometric shapes.