Always sketching. The more I paint, the more I find my work lacking…in several areas. But what should I do about it? I could of course just flail my arms in the air and cry, “WHy iS ThIS sOoOoo hArd?!” But that gets boring fast. So, in the interest of actually being productive with the […]
Garden – Digital Painting Process Welcome to a post about how I did a thing! In this case, how I painted this romantic little garden scene! I don’t have the very first sketch of this piece, because I ended up in the zone (also known as continued working until the sketch stopped annoying me…), and
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First painting for 2024! I started this one a while ago and left him on the back burner for some time. But I always loved the sketch and decided the New Year was the perfect time to finish the painting. He’s an original character from a story I’ve written and he loves nothing more than
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Owls are pretty cool creatures and have some of the most expressive eyes in the entire animal kingdom. So, of course I had to paint a grumpy looking one. I started off with a graphite sketch on printer paper, not the way I always work, but it’s fun to change things up sometimes. As you
Sometimes you just have to paint an elf in a forest to stay sane. Or maybe it’s just me… 😉 I used a photo from Reference Pictures (a brilliant resource for artists!), as a reference for the pose.
