Tortoise painting! I dig the textural look of it. It also reminds me of Halloween/Fall.

Last Friday we had a live model, and the class painted grayscale as well as color studies. These are my favorites of the day!

More texture exercises! Today we mostly worked on hair and fur textures. 

Here are some snapshots of texture practice that we did in class on Friday/some for homework over the weekend. I had trouble with the grainy, linear texture square with the small circles, so I decided to do both the grayscale and regular. They could all use some work, but I am decently proud of the progress!

Obligatory Massive Texture Post

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Here are some quick studies we did in Digital Painting! It was super fun doing these!

(30 minute practice)

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Digital Artists Inspirations

Arthr Fast: http://arturfast.blogspot.com.es

Arthr Fast has an array of techniques, but what I most enjoy is whimsical approach to subject matter, his loose technique with emphasis on certain objects, and his use of color.

 I mean, seriously.

 Holy cow, that is some beautiful stuff!

Goro Fujita: http://chapter-56.blogspot.com.es

He has a similar approach to Fast, but his works are softer, more generous in the approach to how brush strokes are made. His use of dramatic lighting and negative spacing is very compelling, as well.

   

Guillaume Singelin: http://blackyjunkgallery.tumblr.com

I follow this guy’s personal blog on tumblr, and I absolutely love seeing progress drawings, sketches, thumbnails and the like. I extremely dig his energetic style! (Hint: I would love to do something similar in the future. Dude is the BOMB.)

Hou-Bim: hou-bim.tumblr.com

Another loose-style artist, I am a fan or the environments that Hou-Bim creates with such delicate attention to color choice and placement.

Kilian Eng: dwdesign.tumblr.com

Kilian is the master at designing the layout of a piece of art, hands down. He works on various movie covers, special commissions, and seriously loves the use of blues.

Matt Rockefeller

Rockefeller is pretty similar to the above artists in techniques. What I think makes him stand out is that most of his pieces deal with the concept of nostalgia (in one form or another).

Jake Lawrence

Illustrator and creator of the somewhat newly poplar Teen Dog comics, Lawrence (A.K.A. timecowboy) plays to his strengths of vibrant, analogous color choices and bold line work.

Gemma Correll: http://gemmacorrell.tumblr.com

In a similar approach to Jake Lawrence, Correll uses simplicity to her advantage. Her work usually depicts herself, her dogs, cute animals, or other mundane objects and activities in a humorous light. She generally uses a limited color scheme, ranging from black and white, to black and white with various primary colors.