The only girl I've ever loved, was born with roses in her eyes

I figure I should stop picking at this piece. But I have been working on my portfolio so this is the newest edition! 

Here is the initial sketch I did

Nathan Fowkes' "Designing with Color and Light" Week 2

Week two is about believability. He gave us three black and white rough renderings of scenes and we are to paint over it using two sources of warm and cool lighting. I chose this scene from "How to Train Your Dragon."

He ripped me a new hole with the crits from the first week and took all of his advice and worked hard on this one and although I am not completely happy with it, I learned a lot. Meh, knowledge is power?

Here is the original to see what I had to work with:

Environment Concept

I hate painting rocks and mountains, so I painted some rocks and mountains.

Photoshop CS4

#Selfie

When studying portraiture, the most reliable model you have is yourself. This year I've painted more selfies than I've ever done before (more to come!) and have discovered all of the hidden colors in the human skin. Who knew desaturated reds and greens were in there? I wouldn't put that shit on my face! ahha.

Here are progress pics of the painting. I took them with my phone which is why it looks a bit wonky but nonetheless is interesting to see!

Holy improvement, Batman! These were all done this year, look how muddy my colors were in the beginning, and how weird my proportions are haha. I still have a lot to learn but I am glad I'm seeing progress. :)

So Metal

Just did a study of a metal tea kettle. I found out that I really like painting metal.