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October 24, 2020 at 6:46 am #852507October 25, 2020 at 6:25 am #856614October 26, 2020 at 6:25 am #859355October 27, 2020 at 6:02 am #864333
Day 85,
Today I decided to try something different and paint some NC Wyeth heads in procreate. I challenged myself further by leaving the reference painting in colour, and attempting to deduce the values on my own. I mostly focussed on capturing the large simple planes. I really enjoyed this exercise, as I still draw a lot more often than I paint, and I want to continue to diversify my skillset!
October 28, 2020 at 6:09 am #868234Day 86,
Today I decided to change up my portrait process a bit, and go entirely with digital media for a change. I typically don’t do my construction sketches digitally and instead do them in pencil or verithin before scanning them and taking them into either procreate or Photoshop. In this case, I started from scratch in Procreate. I still enjoy drawing traditionally more because I can move my whole shoulder and really loosen up, but the one benefit of taking the whole process digital is that I can easily flip my image and be a little more critical during the sketch phase, which will ultimately save time later! This is just the first two sketch layers, but I do want to try and take this one to more of a finish, as I don’t have many non-celebrity portraits in my portfolio!
October 29, 2020 at 5:55 am #869662October 30, 2020 at 2:47 pm #871610October 31, 2020 at 6:28 am #872540November 1, 2020 at 7:45 am #877083November 2, 2020 at 7:20 am #879748November 3, 2020 at 7:02 am #884858November 4, 2020 at 7:04 am #888572Day 93,
Today I did a 30 minute value study of one of Joseph Todorovitch’s beautiful portraits. I wanted to experiment with a digital alla prima approach, so I didn’t do a drawing and instead painted in the large notan masses first, then went for the large planes, then indicated some of the details with the little time I had less, as I wanted to keep myself strictly to 30 minutes so as to force myself to make design decisions and consider the overall read more than the details. The edge control and proportions definitely need work in my study, but I’m happy with how much information I was able to capture in a limited amount of time!
November 5, 2020 at 8:17 am #890244Day 94,
Today I revisited a portrait I did a few months ago of opera singer Andrea Bocelli. I still like the style and colour selection, but as is the case with most of my portraits, the structure can always be improved. Andrea’s music is great for listening to while drawing and painting by the way!
November 6, 2020 at 7:02 am #891503Day 95,
Today I did a speed paint value study of a Dean Cornwell portrait. Cornwell is a master of both indicating planes and doing it with subtlety, so I wanted to see if I could emulate this approach. Once again the edges are quite unrefined, but having stopped myself after half an hour as part of the exercise, I was more focussed on capturing the major masses.
November 7, 2020 at 7:49 am #893071 -
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