Happy Halloween! time to paint

So here is my halloween, These are all done in photoshop and I tried to take 20-25 minutes on each, (some of the better ones are more like 35-40 mins) This is for an assignment due tuesday at 8 am, it's mostly just a value study but just for practice I took it maybe a half step further than that. I used the same brush butt adjusted the sizes and opacity. My favorite is Kennedy, he is just so Gosh darn Charismatic!

Harrowing night of drawing.

God, Last night was a rough one, I had a tough time finding my "Groove" Each of these drawings has what I would call maybe a few strokes of groove which equate to about 1-1.5 seconds of "real time groove", or "RTG" at a time,...if that makes any sense at all, actually if it does I would like to know. Anyway, I have some new drawings right here and in the future there will be a handful of new paintings, some digital and I am actually beginning a series of self portraits in oil. I love hearing what anyone has to say so feel free to write anything that pops in your head. Happy Halloween.

Hipbone studio 10/21/09

I started out this evening so tense. I started by trying out something a fellow student had suggested and I got a little result. I quickly became bored and very frustrated, I flipped through page after page on the same pose, sketch after sketch. Finally I switched over to my china marker because I remembered that it helps me loosen up. So i loosen up and slowly put away my frustration and out of nowhere I am reminded of my doodling in history class, it was fun, I was making things up as i went, carving things out of big shapes, like sculpting (which i have become pretty interested in lately). So I decide to not pay so much attention to the model. I start making things up in places where i think they might work, but always looking back up whenever i had a question about where something might go. It was a good feeling, remembering that I was not there to make a copy of the model, but to make it more interesting and give it a bit of personality, the model stopped and gave me a compliment and a woman sitting behind me came up to me and said she had been watching me work! Positive feedback is always great to hear. Now that i look back at it, my attention and consciousness must have been completely present because the three hours flew by. Anyway today was an excellent day.

Rock whale, aka "Pure mood volume 3"

A digital painting using a photo as a jump off point. My personal thoughts about it include me thinking i went just a bit too far with the paint parts and should pull it back a bit, specifically the area where it looks like blood around the mouth.