I began to paint a larger piece this week (meaning 20"l) but i found my thoughts on starting these new pieces more interesting. Yea, i manipulated references a good deal for these ones, abstracted the forms, created my desired pattern. The figures are tiny but i love doing the studies so much i couldn't help but sketch them out anyway. Here are the greyscale studies for my future paintings. They differ from the ref, the first was me trying to create a more organic pattern, i found it looked disorganized and 'muddy', so to clarify my thought process i decided to have some fun and make my ideas clearer by using straight lines. The end product won't look like it but at least as far as a study goes it gets a point a across, and it pushed me towards considering factors i wouldn't normally think about. I found it to be a great exercise and fun.
Portrait Project; what's your story?
The more i build friendships and get to know strangers the more i get interested in people. I'm inspired by them. They (usually) allow me to take their portraits and i draw them, perhaps paint them and send them a copy. It's evolving into a project and a very unique and fun one with every experience. Here are a few.
Note; the 'oh shit' on the drawing below is not in regards to the story, but the fact that i thought i really screwed up the sketch at a certain point. Can't erase with pen n ink.
Some quick sketches from this week. 2min and 5 mins for the portraits. Two diff sessions. One was at Los Feliz drawing group which the incredible artist Jennifer McCristian hosts with Ben, the other is one a group of buddies and i have made up. We are all artists and rotate on the stand as models.
Last but not least, some quick plein air sketches from this week. The beach was beautiful.
thought this was funny; particularly relevant since i'm so fond of animation.
http://kotaku.com/if-michael-bay-directed-pixars-up-1623254219?utm_campaign=Socialflow_Kotaku_Facebook&utm_source=Kotaku_Facebook&utm_medium=Socialflow
Words of wisdom; If you're down or at any point want to feel inspired, listen to these. Forwarded to me by Samantha, thanks Samwise!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=plWexCID-kA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixci-5EAkWA
