Rosa's sketchbook.

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Ink, watercolor, Adobe Photoshop

I am learning so many awesome things, like the many amazing talents of frisket paper and how to use masks in photoshop. Shit is blowing my miiind!

I'm pretty doubtful that the best way learn watercolor, oil, figure drawing, photoshop, inking and charcoal techniques is to do everything at once all the time, but that seems to be my general mode of attack. I know that style is everything and it's all about technique secrets, but I've never really been able to choose just one direction. Somehow my subconscious is convinced if I try everything I will be able to finally make up my mind but as of yet I'm on the fence.

In the mean time here's an old super quick photoshop landscape study, done in under an hour.



From this I learned, use the biggest brush available for the task at hand. Also, vary your strokes!!

For one another

This past week we made line drawings for each other to color. Rosa's for Zoe:

We're so excited!
Stay tuned!

6 Hour Pose

Oh man, this guy was so awesome. Just look at him. I didn't include his tattoos or his piercings, though. I couldn't believe it when he both requested a standing pose for the 6 hours and then chose THIS pose for the 6 hours.

It has its problems, but on the whole I'm pretty pumped. I cannot begin to tell you how many sessions it took me in this class to figure out how to mix that slate gray in the background. It's pretty much my nemesis color. Until we meet again, slate gray backdrop, until we meet again...

Oil paint, all over my clothes

Hey! It's my first ever in all my life, before your very eyes, 3 hour alla prima figure painting. We were only using a limited pallet of cadmium red, cadmium yellow, ultramarine blue and white. I didn't quite finish. Don't judge me!


Also I'm adding in some figure drawings from today. These were all short poses, 5-10 minutes, with natural lighting rather than a spotlight.



Thanks for looking!

Drawing Saturday

Rosa and I watched Anchorman and doodled.
We kind of made a mess.

Some sketchbook scans! Man, it's amazing what a difference scanning at a high DPI makes.