return to life drawing

It's been over a year since I attended life drawing. I hope to make this a regular thing- at least once a month. This session mostly consisted of short poses ranging from 1 min - a 20 min at the end. I felt a little rusty but mid class I started to warm up. Then I got really tired....cause I'm getting old.

Thanks for checking in -S.

12.2.2012

acrylic, graphite, and digital post

original sketchbook page

Haven't had hardly any time for personal work but I really wanted to finally give the new version of Art Rage a whirl. It's been out for awhile ,but I hadn't gotten around to the upgrade.

This image isn't entirely ArtRage- but a good deal of it was.  I jumped from ArtRage, to Corel Painter, and Photoshop just to see how they all interacted together. It's tough to determine how long this image took  - since I only dabbled a little here and there on work-breaks.

It doesn't  replace the big programs, but the price is good and I really love the oil brushes in the program. Definitely recommend to those oil painters who  miss a bit of that feeling when working digitally. I'll try to get a process gif going soon ,but it's pretty busy right now! I'll do my best though. Thanks for looking!-S.

Wrapping this exercise up. I'm not satisfied with many aspects of it , but I did learn a ton from doing this and I'm excited to try another one. Thanks for everyone's input on this. It made the exercise even more beneficial than I originally hoped.  Big thanks to Nigel Quarless -whose blog you can check out here:

http://mixedbagmythography.blogspot.com/  

Got a huge amount of valuable info from him that has really altered my thinking of designing characters.

There's a huge batch of work that's under NDA right now, but I'll be back with soon with plenty of new covers to show soon. Take care everyone -S.

Some more progress on this character. Think I'll do at least more iteration of her and then move onto something else.
I wanted to thank all of you who have commented and gave me valuable crits. It is greatly appreciated - sincerely. Please always feel free to leave me your thoughts- I really value it!

Have a great weekend folks and thanks for stopping by!-

S.