This semester has been buusssyyyy. @___@ Between working, a portfolio review for my program, and learning to properly paint has left me so much more exhausted than I could have ever imagined. The teacher was tough and gave us a lot of work, but I feel like as if I have learned so much this semester!
Now with the simple life stuff out of the way... I'm going to start with uploading the first pages of the sketchbook that everyone who passed the portfolio reviews are required to do. In due time I will look through everything I've been doing throughout the semester and picking out some more stuff to share. Enjoy~
It's actually a toy car which is why the paper in the background is at a funky angle. I think I ought to make the toy part more obvious later because otherwise this sketch looks likes a wonkily parked car. XD I've made it a goal to myself to improve on hard-surfaced objects like cars and such which have long been a glaring weakness of mine.
I need to slowly drill all the perspective stuff I learned from two years ago back into my systems. Hehe... Sad news for me today is that the pen I used to highlight with EXPLODED while I used it. O_o; But, I guess it's best not to get precious with sketches, right? Let it be and let go, I suppose.
I quite enjoyed the top sketch a lot more than I thought I would. My classmate and I were doing something really silly where I drew the main stuff and he suddenly wanted to experiment on my pen sketch by wiping his watercolors on it. The results were interesting and I admit that I've learned some really cool tricks that I want to use again from this weird experiment. For example, the wet pen ink ended up drying with a watercolor-esque effect. I was very pleased to say the least. : >
Just when I thought I would be excited to not touch acrylic again for a while, I decide to be a masochist and do more paintings. And with glass of all things. XD I've never painted glass before so I will admit that this was very, very tricky for me - especially the blue egg because I kept not being able to figure out how to mix that color out... I still didn't quite catch it, but I hope to go back sometime and figure it out. I also wish I did a more detailed sketch before attacking the ellipses like I did. They're quite... lopsided - but I guess spontaneous painting without a detailed sketch would do that.
