This is an experimental sketch I did earlier today in my front yard for class. The teacher wanted us to do an 11x14 sketch in any medium. The word experimental was used because I decided to mix pastel and gouache. P: It turned out very strange... I am sooo bad at traditional painting, too. Siiiggghhh...

Photo of my front yard. What makes me mad about plein air works is that the sun keeps moving and changing the light! ;____;

Here is the complete version of the graphite rendering project. I'm surprised at how well I managed to pull off the head of the horse, actually! BUT - I obviously wasn't squinting enough or trusting the source material enough because the barrel part of the horse has illogically spotty lighting on it. =___=

original ref here

Original ref

Landscape WIP studies

Original ref

Some random studies I did~

For some reason I've been on this random African tribe binge. No tribe in particular, just random ones. P: I lost the link to the original photo... =___= But here is a small practice I did based off of a photo. I wish I had the photo - he looked SO cool!

I realized from my group studies of landscapes/cityscapes with Atelo , that I SUCK hard at them. So I did a lot of extra ones. They're kind of sucking... =__= This one is of somewhere in South Africa (I kept NONE of the photos I reffed. ;___; )

This landscape is COMPLETELY made up. I just did it, using fictional colors to see if I could make it look half-convincing. Not even, but it's better than the first ones I tried, so I'll go with it!

This one is of a canyon photo because I realized I suck suuuper hard at canyons. I think I got an inkling of how to do it, but not yet.

I hope I reach a jump soon in my scapes - because they are KILLING me.

Another amazing session with Atelo~! This group stuff sure makes me much more productive! :D

Anyways, today's theme was "landscapes". I think I got better at drawing cityscapes, but it is so painfully obvious I still have NO idea how to do these landscapes. Need to do MOAR. >_< all of them except for a veeery obvious one were from photographs.

this is the last thing we did before calling it a night on our session. It's a painting of this girl that I found in a google search. I was SO compelled by the patterns in her shawl thing and then I have high regrets because it was SUCH a pain to figure that thing out. So it's been reduced to blobs. I felt like I ended up ignoring the face a lot to focus on the shawl, hehe. P: At least I tried, though.

Art study buddy time with Atelo~

~ yayyy~ :D

These were from imagination and some of them were fixed - it's probably which ones were fixed and which ones weren't. From the beginning compared to the end, I have found that I had a lot of misconceptions of feet.

These were from life, I used my own feet as refs. the one in the corner was the last one I did and I did that sooo sloppily and rushedly that it came out looking all strange. O_O; It's like a clubbed foot.

I traced a few pictures of photos of feet that I found in order to try to get an idea of the planes of feet, since I obviously had no idea how it really worked. Again, feet are weeeiirddd..

I did a skeleton gesture thing under the feet. It was hard because the skeletons were not necessarily posed in the same way as the original ref, so I had to mix refs around to try and figure it out.