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I am a long-time art student, and avidly continue my art studies in this blog. However, I have a husband and three small children, so I don't have the free time to make art that I wish I did. This blog contains the stolen scribblings I've made in spare moments. Someday I'll improve!Tags
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Tag Archives: detail
Shading metal
I remembered how much I love shading metal tonight. After fiddling with the girl’s face, looking up skin tones, erasing stuff and redoing it over and over … switching to that robot arm was like pulling out a giant Snickers … Continue reading
In the rain detail work
I was in the mood for little fiddly work tonight, so I messed with the details here. It’s hard to convey things like the side of a face and heavy wrinkled fabric in a few abstract shapes. Also lost and … Continue reading
Detail work
I worked on my Chinese dragon pic a little more. Sonic’s looking decent now, but small people awoke from naps before I could tackle his hand and teacup. Here’s what the whole pic looks like with the sketch layer turned … Continue reading
Fox in snow, nearly done
Worked on this for a while tonight and got it mostly done, I think. Here’s the black and white layer. Here’s the color layer on the fox. It’s subtle. Now her eyes look alive! And then the liberal amount of … Continue reading
Fur and pine needles
Fur and pine needles get painted in similar ways. Lots of short, definite strokes. Fur you need to curve, though, and pine needles need to look bristly. I put the snow on top of the branches with the same strokes … Continue reading
Rockses
Been tinkering with rocks and the palette knife tool. My reasoning was that since the palette knife works great for rocks in real life, why not in digital paint? And it does look pretty good. I tried to follow the … Continue reading
More painted bunting
A little more work on the painted bunting. I’m trying to really make him pop, so, bright brights, dark darks, and way too much saturation throughout. Still fiddling with the background.
