What?! No way!

Does this blog still exist? Oh my....

God it feels good to get back to painting/drawing! Gonna post my inktober stuff next week too. YAY!

The whole values thing eludes me, so I'm gonna stay in black in white from now on, I promise. The ole sarge:

Old Ladystyles

Shout out to all my new followers! I don't know how you found me, but you did the right thing.

I collected some thoughts here. They may be outdated, but worth sharing I think.

First of all, I uploaded my IlluXcon portfolio on my DeviantArt. I'm finally painting how I thought I could paint.

The only way to stop yourself from procrastinating is to have no choice in the matter. Instead of forcing yourself to do something you need to do, you eliminate urges to do anything else. Which is hard, because we're all just apes. And apes are very impulsive.

Procrastinating happens when you take breaks. If you keep working, nothing can stop you. Or me at least..

Really it's the people that do go out on the weekend that are the losers. They're wasting their time drinking when they could be getting ahead with work.

Every time you deny yourself something, next time it will be easier. Every time you give in to vice, next time giving in will be easier as well.

Always set deadlines that are near-impossible to meet. (But don't get frustrated if you don't meet them) As soon as you know you will make a deadline, you become complacent.

Taste of Updates to Come

Real short today. Ran errands for most of the day, so had no time to draw. Dipping into my backlog of new art, this is probably my last portrait of roomie Will. He's moving out and I'm never gonna see him again. Unless I go and find him in Kansas. Which I probably will.

Roughly an hour and half.

SPRING BREAK DIRTY SOUTH DUMP

I didn't actually do any drawing over spring break. These are the remnants of what I did before and what I did just this morning, which is just a hogarth study.

I've been watching the Gnomon workshops sporadically and I highly, highly recommend it. Or at least get the videos with Scott Robertson. He taught me crazy things about value, things that I would have probably learned if I went to real art school.

So we went on a road trip down south and this is one of the guys I went with. Pay attention to the writing on the DVD's. I might upload more all-definitive pictures later.

Before he left my apartment for Ireland, I painted a portrait of my dear friend and world traveller, Travis. You might recognize his name from earlier blog entires that had nothing to do with drawing. I'm gonna start doing a lot more friend portraits. If you recognize him on the street or anywhere else, (as I'm sure you would seeing as how he has hoes in different area codes) tell him I said hello.

I think I had a little under an hour so I didn't have time to fill out all the necessary information.

These are more or less chronological. Toward the end I began to try to achieve more and more realistic lighting, with things like atmospheric perspective and decay. I know it's too early for that, but it's still fun. The latest study may seem like a step back, but that's because I forgot to put down the full value range. Also I don't know where to put speculars. Gotta still life some shiny surfaces, damn it! Anyways, tomorrow's study will be better.

Leaving My Demon's Souls Behind

It's been really tough the past couple of days. Demon's Souls grabbed a hold of me and wouldn't let go. I don't know if I'll be able to quit altogether but I'll try. As a result, I have a bunch of drawings backed up, but I will hopefully use this congestion to gain momentum and update every day for the remainder of the week.

Also I started a bunch of grayscale imagination paintings, which I think you will like.

More heads:

Imagination ~1hr:

Study 30 mins:

45 Mins:

30 Mins:

Self portrait.blegh.

This may or may not be what I look like.

It's either my face or my painting skills. Either way, I'm not pleased with the results.

Self-Portrait ~ 1 hour.

The following pages of the Hogarth Dynamic Anatomy book are taken up by Hogarth's own prtraits in various mediums, which I don't really see the point of copying. So I'm just gonna do portraits of my own:

The first one was way over-rendered, which I think I fixed in the second one. #2 took like 30 minutes.

Willhelm

Today I was a slacker. I did laundry and painted a portrait of my roommate Will. He kept moving, because he was excited about watching the superbowl, so it's highly sketchy. Please enjoy.

Grand Re-Opening!

Welcome back everyone!

This will henceforth be another place for me to post my daily sketches and studies, and possibly some thoughts on matters such as world issues and love.

Let's begin!

Anatomy studies from the imaginaaaaation:

Some posemaniacs:

Recently started doing hogarth studies digitally so here they are, chronologically:

And some life. A portrait of my roommate and some Asian chick: