Digital Painting Demo

Here's a quick demonstration of how I approach digitally painting a still life in Photoshop:

A New Year of Art

Happy New Year

As one of my first official acts of 2015, I'm posting three of the most recent pieces in my portfolio. I haven't had a ton of opportunity to work on art, but I got two new sketchbooks (one regular and one watercolor!) for Christmas, so I'm looking forward to filling those pages up really soon.

Here are my final projects from my watercolor class and my first sketch in my watercolor book:

 We had to do a piece based on a memory or an event, but try to render it as realistically as possible. Since Christmas was coming up, I chose to paint a scene from my church's Christmas Eve candlelight service. Most of this painting is done from memory, since I couldn't take any reference of the service at the time...

 My professor really liked the idea of doing work that was more abstract, which was a big challenge for me as I've mentioned here before. I've always wanted to do a piece based on the way Christmas lights reflect on surfaces.

The thing that I'm most proud of with this piece was that I was working with really cheap brushes that kept shedding. This was not planned, I just happened to forget my brushes up at school when I came back for break...

Printmaking

I haven't posted in a couple of weeks while I was creating some more work. Now, here's a collection of some prints that I created as part of an assignment in watercolor. I discovered I really like printing!

Inktober - 31 Days of Solitude (Part 6)

Here's the final round of sketches. Overall, I'm really proud of the work that I accomplished. Not everything is perfect, some are definitely better than others, but the point is that I got in and sketched, no matter what I thought was going to be good or not. This helped build up my confidence in my drawing.

Not every line I make in drawing is going to be perfect, but that shouldn't stop me from continuing to draw

Enjoy!

Inktober - 31 Days of Solitude (Part 5)

This round of sketches is one that I'm particularly proud of. Enjoy!

Inktober - 31 Days of Solitude (Part 4)

Round four of sketches (onto the second half of the month!)

Enjoy!

Inktober - 31 Days of Solitude (Part 2)

Round 2 of my Inktober sketches. Enjoy!