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<br />eilidhhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17050220146055701591noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3480870681637856409.post-59064182505615742692017-03-03T22:31:00.000+02:002017-03-03T22:31:35.518+02:00January 2017 daily sketchesEverything from start to finish; for descriptions, check <a href="https://www.instagram.com/bal_isra/" target="_blank">my Instagram</a>.<br />
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<br />eilidhhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17050220146055701591noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3480870681637856409.post-36872697000709150022017-03-03T22:14:00.002+02:002017-03-03T22:14:35.585+02:002016Continuing from where I left off: a sum of work done in 2016 (minus a couple pieces still under NDA).<br />
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Those were until June or thereabouts. From then on I made next to nothing throughout summer and most of autumn. But in late November I decided I'd make it a New Year's resolution for 2017 to paint or draw every single day, and I started doing so as a warm-up of sorts. Here are some highlights:
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<br />eilidhhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17050220146055701591noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3480870681637856409.post-47456816814139977882017-03-03T21:43:00.001+02:002017-03-03T21:43:55.184+02:00Catching up! I've neglected this blog for nearly three years. Which is a shame, but the fact remains is that it's just easier to post on other platforms like <a href="https://www.instagram.com/bal_isra/" target="_blank">Instagram</a> (which I've set to automatically cross-post to <a href="https://www.facebook.com/eilidheln" target="_blank">Facebook</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/eilidheln" target="_blank">twitter</a>.<br />
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I'll try to sum up most of the work I've done in the meantime:<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">There was a palette / character challenge meme going on on tumblr, and I got three requests. </span></div>
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<br />eilidhhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17050220146055701591noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3480870681637856409.post-47803593015593310422014-06-10T15:00:00.000+03:002014-06-10T15:01:48.729+03:00April/May roundupI've been sort of beating myself for not painting/drawing all that much in the last few weeks, but gathering all the sketches and such from mid-April onwards, the sum doesn't look too meagre after all. :)<br />
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First, two illustrations for Zeitgeist:<br />
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Fanart for Angeliki Salamaliki's Monsieur Charlatan webcomic:<br />
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I spend a couple days re-organised my brushes in Photoshop, with these two cropping up from the process:<br />
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Some portraits: my femshep from Mass Effect, referenced from screenshots, two more photo studies, plus one quick master study, The Valkyrie's Vigil, by <span class="st">Edward Robert Hughes</span>.<br />
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Sketch compilation time! For the record, my sketchbooks over the last couple of years have been a succession of nasty, tattered things like this one: </div>
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The only thing they've got going for them is that they've got 200 12.5x17.5cm sheets and they cost me some €0.50 each (I get a pack of five), so I go through them mercilessly without ever having to fret about 'ugly' sketches. This used to be an issue before. They get much abuse from being tossed about in my bag daily, but though the result is not pretty, they curiously hold together.<br />
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I don't really sketch as much as I used to; in 2011-2012 I'd sketch in the tram and metro almost daily, but nowadays I catch the metro from a busier station and rarely find a place to sit, so it's not very practical. I'm more likely to sketch something very quick at work (e.g. top three sketches on the first image) or do some anatomy studies at home when I've got more time on my hands.</div>
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That said, I'm noticing how far better control I have with pencils than with my tablet. I may be really clumsy with acrylics (see below), but I draw far more comfortably on my sketchbook than I do digitally. Perhaps, even after 15 years, my hand/eye coordination between the tablet and monitor isn't really that good.<br />
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Bonus: acrylic sketches! I did those at <a href="http://eilidheln.blogspot.gr/2011/03/despina-liapi-st-george.html" target="_blank">my mom</a>'s studio in late March.<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Reference: Nastya Kusakina photographed by Jurij Treskow</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Reference: Rufo, Arbore Tribe, Lower Omo Valley, Ethiopia - by <a href="https://www.joeyl.com/" target="_blank">Joey L.</a></span></div>
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One thing I figured out while painting these portraits was rendering smooth face planes with the airbrush. I’d tried it in the past
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Reference:<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drakolimni" target="_blank"> Drakolimni</a>, Mount Tymfi, Epirus, Greece. I took some liberties with the look of the resident 'dragons'. :}</span><br />
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I also joined the Daily Spitpaint group on Facebook, and have painted a couple prompts. The 30' limit is a hit or miss, and I'm not always sure it's a good thing to rush things. While working fast and under pressure keeps me on my toes, I may take shortcuts to make something presentable instead of learning from it as I would if I were to take my time. Or perhaps I'm just out of practice; I should keep doing these.<br />
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I had started this painting in December 2010, tortured it until mid March 2011, dropped it, tried a scant few things again in 2012, and finally picked it up again and finished it last month.<br />
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It took me such a long time for a number of reasons. One, I had in mind a specific way her face had to look, and it was difficult to get her expression and features right. I like keeping all my characters' expressions somewhat ambiguous, but this is easier achieved in looser works, where forms are not very clear to begin with.</div>
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Two, I had no idea what pretty much the rest of the image was going to be like, except for the snowy backdrop, her white fur cloak, and the gem-like bloodied object in her hand. In earlier versions she kept it close to her heart, but I didn't like how it made her look vulnerable. I wasn't sure what she should wear, either. I tried out a variety of outfits, from a white robe to plate armour(?), then a couple more armours of indefinite materials. I grew more and more frustrated as each attempt to add definition veered the image into stock fantasy territory - which is perfectly fine by itself, but not where I felt she belonged. In the end I sort of made up my mind and went for this oddly textured garment.</div>
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But what kept me back most of all was that I was getting more and more invested in the character herself. With a commission I can easily say "that's done", even if there are a number of things that bug me about it. I felt I had to do justice to this unnamed woman (Cania is the name of the place, not hers), and didn't mind wait until my skills were a bit more up to the task.</div>
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And details of her face and hand:<br />
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These were commissioned for an urban fantasy setting, about which I admittedly know very little, except for the very detailed (and helpful) descriptions of the characters:<br />
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Painting these characters has been an important learning experience, in that I actually tried to learn from my mistakes instead of just fret about them. I generally don't paint very consciously and tend to over-rely on what Bob Ross would call 'happy accidents', which have sometimes turned out impressive enough, but the rest of the time I find that I have great difficulty in fully directing my paintings or being accurate in depicting a vision I or someone else may have.</div>
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Mentioning these things here feels a bit like rediscovering the wheel, but someone else might benefit from reading them like I did from noting them down as I faced each hurdle (or success!).<br />
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<li>Find or make the right reference. Probably not necessary in concept or looser work, or if I were really confident about my anatomy skills or about how different objects and materials may look under different angles. I'm not at all confident. Reference saves my butt. I might pull things off without, but I might mess things up entirely and have to backtrack (see also point 4).</li>
<li>Set up values and colour schemes. Decide on a light source and don't ignore or forget about it during rendering. Maybe even make a silly little arrow on a separate layer and keep it there as a reminder.</li>
<li>Clean up drawing and double check for errors (flip the canvas, walk away from it for a while, show it to someone else). There are things that can and probably will have to be corrected or changed during rendering, but a solid drawing saves time - and frustration.</li>
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I don't see these steps as some sort of holy grail, and I feel it shouldn't all become a mechanical process; I like a bit of mess in my paintings, just not when it spills over everything I'm trying to do <i>with </i>a painting. <br />
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I made it a New Year's resolution to get back into painting in 2014,
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In theory, it's more or less reasonable, but in practice it requires 30 hour-long days and not much of a life beyond. I also realised I cannot always sit eight plus hours in front a computer screen at work and expect to spend another four or five at home. So all that didn't work out too well. :}</div>
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eilidhhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17050220146055701591noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3480870681637856409.post-52001282041866830552013-11-11T11:08:00.000+02:002014-01-22T11:09:55.890+02:002013 bits and pieces<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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2013 has not been a very good year art-wise. I moved house in late December 2012; my new place was a dilapidated mess, previously uninhabited for some 10+ years. Between full-time work and trying to tackle said mess so that it resembles a habitable space, my art productivity dropped entirely.</div>
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The sum of what I managed to paint or sketch this year is this:</div>
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eilidhhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17050220146055701591noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3480870681637856409.post-27681595166585966942012-11-29T14:37:00.000+02:002014-01-22T11:11:06.827+02:00The Other Half of the Sky<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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The Other Half of the Sky is <a href="http://www.starshipreckless.com/blog/?p=6836" target="_blank">an anthology of science fiction stories with women protagonists</a>, a theme that could hardly be closer to my heart. In science fiction female characters are often on the sidelines, passive and flat; I suppose because of a widespread belief that women are uninterested in the whole space idea. This collection of stories turns this stereotype down a notch, so I was understandably very happy to make the cover for it.</div>
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<a href="http://www.starshipreckless.com/" target="_blank">Athena Andreadis</a>, the editor of the anthology, was particularly helpful throughout the process of making this image. She had a clear vision of what she wanted the cover to look like, and was precise in communicating it.</div>
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The character is not chosen specifically from one story of the lot; I made her generic enough so that she could fit any of the protagonists. It was important to set the tone through her expression and stance rather than any particulars of her appearance.</div>
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On a technical level, this was mostly straightforward. I set up a model in Poser to help me with the odd lighting and angle (<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-727eJtc6yYE/ULZa9Kn1_aI/AAAAAAAAAuY/xoZx1-3aDr8/s1600/other_half_pose.jpg" target="_blank">not pretty</a>, but it did its job). I tried out a couple different colour schemes, and even one lighter version, with a planet instead of nebula in the background. The eventual nebula background has a composite of various nebulae images (thanks, NASA!) as a basis, further rendered with watercolour-like brushes alongside with the plain old round brush.</div>
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I got the idea of the twisting spires from the <a href="http://www.dynamicarchitecture.net/" target="_blank">Dynamic Tower</a> concept, though I tried to make them look a little more organic (likely at the expense of structural integrity!).</div>
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For the character's outfit, I had initially thought of something more armour-like, but that would put too much military emphasis. In looking for inspiration and reference, I kept stumbling upon the extremely bulky EVA space suits currently in use, but then I came across the <a href="http://mvl.mit.edu/EVA/biosuit/" target="_blank">Bio-Suit</a> concept, and took it from there. Its decorative elements were inspired by a <a href="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mbgbrh3IP11qbpwkro2_400.gif" target="_blank">lovely gif</a> circulating tumblr.</div>
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Once I had put everything together in satisfactory detail, I extended the image so that it could make a full wraparound cover. (Already a large file, the full wraparound was over 12000 pixels wide, some 1,5GB in size, and working with it turned much, m u c h s l o w e r.)</div>
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eilidhhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17050220146055701591noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3480870681637856409.post-36641807972848041242012-09-22T13:04:00.001+03:002012-09-22T13:04:39.102+03:00Shade<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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A painting for the cover of the autumn issue of <a href="http://www.thecoloredlens.com/" target="_blank">The Colored Lens</a> (available <a href="http://amzn.to/QoEnFK" target="_blank">on Amazon</a> now).<br />
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I started by trying to make an interesting-looking background. The ghostly figure emerged soon afterwards, and from then onwards it was just a matter of refining. Step #7 was in Painter, which I use for its interesting textures, all the rest in Photoshop.<br />
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eilidhhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17050220146055701591noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3480870681637856409.post-45748933426239572052012-09-18T11:50:00.000+03:002012-09-18T11:50:19.493+03:00Sisters<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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An illustration for Jude-Marie Green’s short story <i>Sisters</i>, published in the summer issue of <a href="http://thecoloredlens.com/">The Colored Lens</a> (also <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B008BXYJBO/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=thecollen-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B008BXYJBO">available on Amazon</a>).<br />
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Keep an eye out for The Colored Lens’ autumn issue: I’ve made art for the cover. :)<br />
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Original sketch: <a href="http://www.wysp.ws/post/413911/">on wysp.ws</a></div>
eilidhhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17050220146055701591noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3480870681637856409.post-53718714608881863352012-09-08T21:06:00.000+03:002012-09-08T21:06:12.946+03:00Forest Road<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Remember <a href="http://eilidheln.blogspot.gr/2011/10/i-have-been-struggling-with-art-block.html" target="_blank">this piece</a> (image #3) from nearly a year back? It was almost done then, but for some reason I had left it unfinished. Today I
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eilidhhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17050220146055701591noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3480870681637856409.post-32359941113114839952012-08-31T11:03:00.002+03:002012-08-31T11:03:25.291+03:00Zeitgeist: Cauldron-Born<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Two more illustrations for <a href="http://www.enworld.org/forum/showwiki.php?title=ZEITGEIST:+The+Gears+of+Revolution+Adventure+Path" target="_blank">Zeitgeist</a> #5, <i>Cauldron Born</i>.<br />
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A 300-ft. tall metal construct is being built in an underground shaft. The idea was to make it look more human/statue-like than robot, and to show its scale. If you can see some inspiration from Prometheus' poster - it's because it's definitely there. :) <i><br /></i></div>
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A portrait of <a href="http://twitter.com/SigmaRue" target="_blank">Stephanie Gutowski</a>. I had an eye on that photo of hers for a while. :)<br /><br />Fun fact: Some time back I had dreamt that I had painted her and was very pleased with the result; woke up to find out I hadn’t, much to my disgruntlement. I consider this amended now, though as usually, in my dreams my work is infinitely better! :}<br /><br />Photoshop, a couple of hours on and off. Reference courtesy of Steph.</div>eilidhhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17050220146055701591noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3480870681637856409.post-8928424445298620292012-05-02T15:13:00.000+03:002012-05-02T15:15:25.436+03:00On the Hill of Roses<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Dust jacket cover I made for <i>On the Hill of Roses</i>, a short story collection by Stefan Grabinski (translated from Polish by Miroslaw Lipinski), to be published by Hieroglyphic Press this summer.<br />
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I had a helpful and poetic description from the publisher: '[...] a landscape at
dusk, a rose garden with the bloody reds of the bushes merging with the
dying sunset shades. The ground might be a dark, almost black green with
hint of the sinister in the deepening shadows.' They specifically wanted something in the style and mood of <a href="http://eilidheln.blogspot.com/2010/11/eventide.html" target="_blank">Eventide</a>, loose and impressionistic. So I set out to put my new watercolour skills into preliminary sketches.<br />
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Well, 'watercolour skills' might be a bit overrated. But these colour blobs were just what I needed, so I scanned them in and threw more values in PS.<br />
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Then I took the two and merged them into a larger, wider piece. I threw in more golden tones because I felt the pinks and lilacs were too subdued, and because the title story is a psychological horror piece taking place in midsummer, so I wanted a small taste of it to seep into this image. <br />
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Not forgetting that the right side of the image would be the front cover, I flipped it soon after, so that the focus would be on the right and that it would still work as a whole. <br />
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I also added some guidelines to keep my composition together and flowing, and was switching them on and off right until the end.<br />
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From then on it was just a matter of rendering. This is frequently the part I have most difficulty with. I tend to overwork my images and they lose the freshness and dynamic their earlier versions have. A lot of the time, I'm just going back and forth between different saves of an image. I was more careful with what details I added and where with this one, so maybe that's why it proved to be a more straightforward process than usual.<br />
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It also turned out to be a true digital/watercolour hybrid: in order to preserve the watercolour textures, I kept laying down shapes in watercolour, then scanning them and adding them to my main image:<br />
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After what I now realised to be a rather long hiatus, prepare to be swamped with recent work! For now, just some sketches. I have fallen behind with both sketching and scanning (lately I am so tired in the mornings or after work that taking out pen and paper in the metro seems too daunting).<br />
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The overwhelming majority of these are from the time I spent at a hospital looking after a family member. Long hours with nothing much to do - good for drawing. When sleep deprivation kicked in, less so - but still. :)<br />
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Further interior illustrations I made for the Zeitgeist adventure path (see previous batch <a href="http://eilidheln.blogspot.com/2011/12/zeitgeist-illustrations.html" target="_blank">here</a>). These are for the fourth chapter, <i>Always On Time</i>.<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"> Screaming Malice: <i>Imagine a black oily swamp reared up<br />and towered over you like a giant with tendrils that end in screaming,<br />fanged mouths. When a group of bandits try to ambush and rob the train, they<br />provoke this monster to attack as a distraction.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Ashima-Shimtu: <i>One of the train's stops is near a<br />cursed island, with a prison for a millennia-old demon</i>. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Haunted island: <i>At night the fogs or<br />rain roll in, and if anyone living is still on the island, all the dead who<br />drowned or crashed on the rocks around its shore shamble onto the island to<br />kill them. </i></span></div>
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To be honest, I'm not quite as pleased with these three as I was with the ones for the previous<i> </i>adventure.
I was under a lot of stress lately (work and family matters) and I
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A semi-quick piece: some 20' for the first rough sketch (see below), then a couple hours this evening. <br />
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To my surprise, my old tubes of acrylic paint (bought in 2003!) are still alive. They are big plastic ones and could surely last for a few more paintings. I had a couple smaller metallic tubes, too, but those are bone-dry.<br />
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I tried them yesterday evening on these itty bitty (9x6cm) pieces of canvas. Fun times! I'm a lot more comfortable with acrylics' drying times as opposed to oils'. I still attacked the first two with a hair dryer, though.<br />
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I'm also realising that my scanner is not handling reds very well. I always have to colour-correct my scans, and it's always the reds that are most skewed.<br />
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Edit: here they are, sitting snugly on my desk shelf! :) <br />
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I had aimed to make this a very quick sketch, to force myself to put in only what was necessary and keep my forms simple - that took some 20', with relative success.<br />
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A little while later I gave in to temptation and spent another 20' adding a bit of texture, though. :)<br />
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Reference from <a href="http://elandria.deviantart.com/" target="_blank">Elandria</a>.</div>eilidhhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17050220146055701591noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3480870681637856409.post-82179457209610167062012-01-27T21:55:00.000+02:002012-01-27T21:55:34.113+02:00Nelleke's forest<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
A tiny (10.5x10.3cm) watercolour study, from <a href="http://nelleke.deviantart.com/art/Seven-281766017" target="_blank">this lovely photo by Nelleke</a>.<br />
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(A very early stage can be seen in the previous post.) :)</div>eilidhhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17050220146055701591noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3480870681637856409.post-34256499597359118082012-01-27T19:59:00.000+02:002012-01-27T19:59:37.997+02:00Workspace issues<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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I haz them. D:<br />
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