Thursday, April 29, 2010

Adjusting Hair


This is a drawing done from memory ( As are about 98 percent of my drawings) of a woman Adjusting her hair. The subject has been a favorite for artists through out art history. So I'm
just following the call. Usually it's a woman at the bath or at a stream or being visited upon by Zeus. In this case it's a girl on an Elliptical Cardio machine.
Actually it is again some one I know and when I saw her fixing her hair I thought "There's a nice image for a drawing".
When you see this subject matter in art you don't often see arms and shoulders like that unless it's Michelangelo. That brother could draw some arms!
So here's the tech story on this . Drawing started in Painter 11 using Conte on my Modbook.
But I still find Painter 11 a little stiff so I opened it in Photoshop to continue drawing. Just like using pastels. Just not as messy.
Also this was done during my flight to Japan so there's the reason for using a computer and drawing from memory!

Wednesday, April 21, 2010

Fantasy Warrior


This is a sketch based on a photo of someone I know. I can't say that it's a likeness really because it doesn't really looks like her . But you could say that it's inspired by the photo.
This was done only in Photoshop on my 21 inch cintiq. There are a lot of things about it that I don't like but then it's not a finished piece. Just a sketch and the reason to do a sketch is to see if you want to pursue it further. I would do this one over again but the point of this blog was to do things quickly and not over work it . Just to get things out.
I get used to working in grays because of some of the work that I do where color isn't needed.
It gives you less to think about so you can just think about form and mass.
I originally liked the stance in the photo that this was based on but I don't think I got it.
The head is also a bit weird. I didn't use the pose that was in the photo - I just made it up .
I find it hard to use models because they never do what you want them to do . But you do need them sometimes!
-Larry

Monday, April 12, 2010

Detail of Oils Practice

painter oils w/acrylics

Today I had to wait around for a input on a job so I had time to fool around with Painter 11 again. With this one I just started out with the graphite tool and charcoal tool. That went okay if you only want your image to be achromatic . Actually you can work in color with these tools but the results aren't as satisfying. Next I started playing around with the oils brush and the acrylic brush . They are similar but the oil seems to be a little more unpredictable.
This is sort of a classic reclining pose but the image had no real function except for something to practice Painter 11 tools on.
-Larry

Sunday, April 11, 2010

Quick sketches


Again, just doodling with no plan in mind. Trying out the oil brushes in Painter11 for sketching. The acrylic brushes seem to work better for this just because I've noticed that the oil brushes "drag" color and leave a white streak on the background. I still have better control
of what I do in Photoshop but I'm trying to give Painter its chance.
I'm going to have to make myself go back to traditional real media again. But you can't resize or rotate or change color as easily.
-Larry