February 2008 Archives

This is probably easiest to read in my deviantArt Gallery.

This didn't turn out quite like I intended. I can never seem to get the right purple from acrylic - this is quinacridone magenta mixed with ultramarine blue, and it's pretty close but doesn't quite reach the luminosity I want.

Still, I think it is nice enought not to paint over. :)

This was done with a traditional underpainting. You can see the stages here: deviantArt

I have been trying to learn how to paint more... well... spontaneously, but after 3 failures I was feeling pretty low, so I did this one with a method I was more familiar with from my days painting in oils. The good news is that for once I really did manage to get a good mimic of an oil painting - it has the same depth and sheen and brightness. Which I think is a first for me in acrylics. So that's good at least. But i haven't given up on spontaneous painting yet. I just won't post those pictures.

This is probably easiest to read in my deviantArt Gallery.

This is probably easiest to read in my deviantArt Gallery.

This is probably easiest to read in my deviantArt Gallery.

This was far and away the hardest page yet. It contains the two things I hate to draw most in the world - cars and trees. Urgh. And it took forever. But it is my favorite. And the penultimate is the closest I've come to drawing Holly properly yet. :)

This is probably easiest to read in my deviantArt Gallery.