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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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More Dax
Refined it a bit and made it wider, so it’s not so scrunched. Also played with making some rocky pillar-thingies in the background. They kind of look like columns of smoke right now. It’s rough, but the idea is there. … 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
More values
Messed around with my fox some more this evening. I roughed in the shapes of the snow-covered branches, and got her face more or less working. Still messing with the eyes. I’m working from a photo reference, and foxes have … Continue reading
Tulip quick study
A tulip, painted from reference photos I took of some gorgeous potted ones. This was made with three values–dark red, bright red, and a cool grayish pink for the highlights. The leaves only have two values, dark and middle green. … Continue reading
Basic values on werewolf pic
First off, I finally figured out that the wolf’s head was just too big. He’s not very tall, as werewolves go, so the head size I had started with just turned out to be too large. I shrank it a … Continue reading