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One Week Portrait, 2020

September 23, 2020
Two portraits for One Week Portrait 2020

This year I decided to participate in both of Paintable’s One Week Portrait challenges. The purpose of the challenge is to create your best portrait yet. Instructor David breaks up the challenge across 5 days, which allows you to create your very best work while putting in as little or as much time as you want.

While I’m pretty well versed in digital drawing, seeing the videos was a great refresher and anyone who draws can always do with a bit of practice studying. Back in April, I created the first one, seen on the left, of model Hamid Fadaei. I chose the reference photo for its particular contrast, fun lighting, colors, textures, and of course… The smoke.

The second reference image I chose, by photographer Anna Danilova, was pretty much the opposite of the first. It was using really subtle colors and shades, most of it was obscured, and because there’s only a relatively low quality resolution copy of this image on the web (and I cropped it in on the face), I had to make up some textures and other pixel data.

Overall fun to do, a nice practice exercise, and something to keep my mind occupied while the world is currently exploding. Hoping to have some new illustrations soon. Thanks for reading. 🙂

Petrichor II – What’s in a word?

August 20, 2020
A silhouette of a human figure walking through a foggy meadow past a rainy forest

These past couple months have been… Rough. They’ve been really rough for everyone, myself included. It’s hard not to be affected when the world is on fire, the country is collapsing, everything is closed and/or cancelled, and everyone is fighting. I thought I wasn’t really affected, given my daily routine is pretty introverted, but it turns out that all of this hubbub happening in the world put a real damper on my creative ability. Writing has slowed; I sat down to write a few pages and ended up stopping after a paragraph, haven’t picked it up in weeks. Drawing has almost come to a halt; I started an oil painting with high hopes of having it finished quickly, but I petered out fast.

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“The Wolves Descend”, a note about police brutality

June 18, 2020
A dark storm cloud in the shape of a wolfpack descends over a city. People are running away in the foreground.

I know you’re probably groaning if you’re opening this or getting it in your email, because it seems everyone has something to say about the current events of the world right now. I have seen a lot of things, as many of us have, and I have read even more. I have “opinions” of things that not everyone will agree with, but I suppose I should just say it: Black Lives Matter.

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Facemask designs now available

April 30, 2020
Facemasks

It’s been a long time without a blog post! I’m still working on things and hope to have a nice blog post ready for you soon detailing some new works. However, given everything that’s going on in the world, one of my retailers is now offering facemasks, so I’ve enabled some of my designs for purchase. If there’s a design that I haven’t enabled that you want to buy, just let me know in the comments!

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“Role” In Progress, Pinkest Pink Review

March 12, 2020
A blue and purple skinned male looking at you. The background is bright pink, which is reflecting off his skin. He is wearing a large pink feather boa and a white swan tiara.

Sometime, last year, or the year before that, I bought some of Stuart Semple’s Pinkest Pink. I recall I purchased some Potion, and well, the pink was on sale. I also picked up some Diamond Dust at the time. Like most artists, I just buy things on a whim without any thoughts over what I’m going to use them for. I don’t draw with pink. I certainly don’t even do any physical painting either, it’s mostly all digital. What the heck would I use this for?

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