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All I really have to report are a few more sketches...
I am feeling much better...though not fantastic, but better.
I don't know how old this is...I didn't see that I had posted it anywhere else, if I have, I apologize.
It appears to be an older man...and a woman...and stuff...
Filling in a page I'd previously scanned...The man in the lower left...really looks like that...
See?
Tonight I was at the B&N cafe because it is closer to the gym, and has a slow enough turn over of people that it facilitates longer studies if I choose...which I still tend not to. There was a girl who studies there on a regular basis and who undoubtedly has gathered that I draw people...Tonight was her turn, and she was very clearly aware I was looking at her, which made it hard. I didn't get to look up for reference for more than a second at a time so the drawing is pretty simple...Also...pretty people are hard to draw. They tend not to have marks or blemishes which make them identifiable, or shapely, instead, smooth skin which can't be marked etc...it's hard to draw so perfectly with so few marks...I need to work on that. It is a similar hangup to why I am never satisfied with my drawings of Sam.
So...to the girl at the B&N cafe...you are really cute...i'll buy you coffee or whatever if i can draw you...BUT...i am utterly head over heels for another girl, so...coffee and company?(cheesy enough? "my name's colin and i draw pretty pictures!") cough...good thing no one reads this.
just a sketch to upload since i have nothing better or more exciting.
This is a denizen of Mugs coffee lounge. she's there all the time, and may or may not be a bit more crazy then the most of us.
I was doodling a bit and came up with an idea for a weary hero narrative...thing. The hero who is tired from his trials and travels, but who knows he has this one more task...or something lame like that. The problem I am running into is that my antagonist is lame. Just...not doing it for me. I think deciding on the setting will help(I am leaning toward an overgrown, mossy, dark, mirkwood-esque dealy), but I think I am going to go the more "force of nature" route and make the creature itself overgrown and a dangerous and fantastical element of the forest itself. i tried it as just a simple troll type idea and it is very hum drum. I used some vellum and overlayed some horns etc and it's just too...balor.
anyone?
"Autumn" - Digital painting/scanned materials - Dec 07
I'm doing very well for once in keeping up as promised with work, and the blog. I am momentarily proud of myself. If anyone recalls, or cares to look back a short ways, I had a poster print called "winter" a while back, which was a sort of digital collage. I've had several requests from random people to buy a print of it, which struck me as a fantastic idea, if only to get my signature floating around out there. So I am in the process of setting up a paypal account, but also in the process of doing more "digital screens". Each will be available as a high resolution 11"x17" digital print for $12. Like I said, the idea is mainly to get my signature out there, and for the novelty of it. By selling them for $12 it isn't exactly as if I am in it for the large bill money. To get each printed on a high quality stock it will cost me about $3, for a mailing tube and postage, probably another $4...so I am in it for about $5 bucks a print.
"Winter" - Digital painting/scanned materials
I don't know how old this is...I didn't see that I had posted it anywhere else, if I have, I apologize.
Filling in a page I'd previously scanned...The man in the lower left...really looks like that...
See?
Tonight I was at the B&N cafe because it is closer to the gym, and has a slow enough turn over of people that it facilitates longer studies if I choose...which I still tend not to. There was a girl who studies there on a regular basis and who undoubtedly has gathered that I draw people...Tonight was her turn, and she was very clearly aware I was looking at her, which made it hard. I didn't get to look up for reference for more than a second at a time so the drawing is pretty simple...Also...pretty people are hard to draw. They tend not to have marks or blemishes which make them identifiable, or shapely, instead, smooth skin which can't be marked etc...it's hard to draw so perfectly with so few marks...I need to work on that. It is a similar hangup to why I am never satisfied with my drawings of Sam.
