Another painting of Emma from Glee from an afternoon/evening practice session. Experimenting also with some new photoshop custom brushes.
Fan art for Mistborn.
Emma from Glee, my current favorite show on TV.
Done freehand, but with reference and measuring lines added in Photoshop to help achieve the right proportions.
This was an exercise in how to capture a likeness. I think I must have scrapped about 6 prior attempts. Once I got the likeness close, the painting went pretty quickly.
The colors are still a little wacky. But I think it’s time to move on to the next piece.
Photoshop CS4. 12 hours.
Some fan art of Kaylee from Serenity. Photoshop CS4.
I lost count of the hours trying to get the likeness right. Maybe 8? Finally had to give up. It’s just not quite there. I wish I were a better artist so I could see how to fix it more easily.
Finished it off with a quick hack coloring job of only an hour or so.
I was a bit rusty after not painting for at least a month it feels like. It was hard to get back into the groove.
My project at work is over, so hopefully some breathing room. Still working on my feature script. But I’m getting the itch to draw again. Maybe will pick up the webcomic again, but treat it more like an encyclopedia of the world for a little bit. Just have some fun with characters, locations, world building without worrying about narrative again just yet.
