This day I focused more on roughly sketching figures and faces to practice proportion and placement. The bellydancer, musician, and girl with skateboard are all old prompts from a daily drawing group. The Wolverine was from a still of Hugh Jackman. I’m feeling a bit frustrated right now with my inability to render some details.
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This is another prompt from a daily drawing group on Facebook, but this time I attempted hatch shading. Human faces are terribly hard for me. It’s not at all accurate to the reference. I also tilted the image slightly and lost the feeling that she is leaning forward, and had more than a little trouble
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Graphite pencil HB, B, 2B, 4B in my sketchbook, ~4 hours of work. The drawing is based on a photo of silent film actress Betty Blythe.
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I spent a little time painting this afternoon. It’s not much, but the weather was turning to rain so I came back inside. Updates are to the commissioned portrait and celtic knot work oil painting.
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Originally five separate posts made on December 14, 2010. rawing of Captain Robert from Abney Park, referencing one of their promotional photos. This is part of a series for my final project in class. Drawing of Kristina from Abney Park, referencing one of their promo photos. This is part of a series for my final project in
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Originally posted October 4, 2010. 6″x10″, white ink on black paper~5 hours of workModel: https://gentlemansclubstock.deviantart.com/art/201-54741071 by ~GentlemansClubStock Cross-hatching homework assignment for class. I decided I wanted to do a bold crosshatch design with lines that follow the contours of the model, to help emphasize the boldness of the lighting.
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Originally posted June 21, 2009. WIP images originally posted May 18, June 5, and June 11, 2009. Oil paint on canvas board, 9″x12″4 painting sessionsReference: a photo of myself from New Year 2009 Finishing up the class project self portrait. Added highlighting to the goggles and hair, and added the spots. Done. 9″x12″ oil on
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Originally posted April 3, 2009. Note from 7/30/2019: I don’t remember why I never returned to this piece, other than it didn’t at all catch my interest. It was for a class project, so it must have been gradable at this point, even though it was nowhere near done in my own estimation. Reference: a
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White colored pencil on black paper, 5″x7″
~4 hours of work
Model: [link no longer active] Dread Captain Robert, of the Ophelia and Abney Park fame
This is a back-dated post for my archive project, where I am copying over every piece of art I have ever submitted to DeviantArt, with the original submission date or watermarked year stamp, so a complete archive of my work can be found on this website. Model: `shelldevil [link no longer valid] This is my entry to
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