Painting practice

[telophase]

Hey, homasse! You'll appreciate this one!

The problem with sleeping until 11AM and then taking a nap in the middle of the afternoon is that you can't fall asleep at bedtime and have to figure out something to do while you wait to get sleepy (even the nighttime cold drugs weren't enough to make me sleep).

So a couple of the books I got out of the library were about painting, and I figured I'd do some basic exercises from them while waiting for the sleepy to show up. And thus I did this non-graplike picture of a grape:







Being me, of course, I decided that doing that one basic thing was plenty for one evening (this is the primary problem with my art skills - I get way bored with doing basic stuff and jump ahead before I've really nailed the basics, and it shows) and decided to do something a wee bit more elaborate.

I started off following this tutorial and about three steps into it, went off on a tangent that I actually like better, because I've got more roughness and personality in the picture, I think.

Here's the reference picture I was using, of Nicholas Tse, one of the many, many pictures of hot Asian men sent me by homasse.









And then, we get the picture I painted. Which turned out far, far better than I expected it would. Figures, huh, when I expect that I'm going to produce a few scribbles and quit in frustration, I get something decent? Anyway, done in Painter 9, took about 3-4 hours.







And now the sleepy has FINALLY arrived and I am going to BED.

Comments

[guardian-yugi.livejournal.com]

This is absolutely amazing. ^_^

[telophase.livejournal.com]

THank you. :D

[homasse.livejournal.com]

Oooh, *niiice*.

And see? All those pictures WERE really *ahem* reference. XD

[telophase.livejournal.com]

Of course they were. What else could they possibly be? *shifty look*

[batwrangler.livejournal.com]

That's yummy (and I don't mean the grape).

[telophase.livejournal.com]

XD Thanks!

[wildelamassu.livejournal.com]

I have no knowledge of art whatsoever beyond my intro Art History class, but I'm really impressed by the color-created textures in the hair, eyebrows, and sweater.

[telophase.livejournal.com]

THanks. :) The fun bit about painting is that you can throw down semi-random scribbles, and many times the viewer's mind will make the appropriate connections themselves. :D

The sharpness of the hair and the softness of the eyebrows doens't quite mesh, but since this is the best realism I've done yet, I'm willing to not care one jot.

[rurounitriv.livejournal.com]

Oh, very nice... lovely textures here. The sweater looks nice and soft, and I like the shape of his nose and lips.