Haughty Taughty Woman

Another quick sketch. Trying to keep my hand in it so to speak.

Fish head

After an unfortunate water bottle accident I had to scrap my old sketchbook and start over. This is one of my first "doodles" in it. I like it. It's fun and a bit random.

She looks broken

And I need to work on my foreshortening. But I'm in love with the image so I felt like sharing. Feel free to compare and contrast against the ref photo.

First draft design

For a fabric embroidered and painted artwork that I'm figuring out in my head.

Now in Technicolor

So I promised a while ago that I would color her and post her up. Well I didn't then, but I'm doing it now. Took me a while to remember how to color in Photoshop (especially since we have a newer version than before), but I think I did ok. Hadn't really given any thought on the overall color scheme, but I feel she worked out well. The umbrella is still off, which upsets me a bit more now, but I am happy with the hands and feet. And I really feel like my coloring really gives her more dimension than my line work alone did. I've been told I need to work on that, can't rely solely on color for depth and dimension, but I gotta start somewhere right? I'll scan a couple more preliminary sketches of the skulls soon so that you can see what a couple of hours of Google Imaging various mammalian skulls can do to my concept of 3 Dimensionality as it relates to skulls.

Hope you like this and all that is to come.

More skulls as promised

Some of my original sketches that inspired the previous post. It was a small challenge that Liam gave me. Draw a bunch of different types of skulls. Can you tell which ones I was able to do?

A sneak preview:

Of my next painting. Still in the design stage. Did some research online to get this done properly. Now thinking on it though, the canvases I just bought might be too small...
We'll see how it is after final design and layout. Just making sure you guys know I'm still around. I'll give you another page of skulls tomorrow.
Enjoy!