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:

Figure Drawing; Model: Vanna Mae

2-5 minute gestures in charcoal.

15 Minutes each color. In erasable Prismacolors. 

About 45 minutes in erasable Prismacolors. 

So Metal

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

Selfies

Today marks the end of week 4 of Noah Bradley's Art Camp. This week we concentrated on self portraits painted via mirror and/or having someone sit for you as you draw their portrait. I managed to get about three selfies in this week and made sure to improve as I did each one. To show the progression, I will swallow my pride and post them.