Week 7 Conks out and Week 8 Rises

Right now I'm caught between never wanting to see this painting again and seeing where I could easily come back and fix things. Due to poor Katniss' very masculine build here my professor thought it was a commentary on gender and could be a drag show or something of that variety. This made him happy, which is good, but that's honestly not what I want. I think when I come back to it I'm going to totally re-do all the places where you can see her skin as well as her hair. I do like her dress though.

Since I had the motivation and the extra time tonight, I started Week 8. Actually I re-re-started Week 8 after trying to put it on paper twice and failing miserably. Some things just have to be digital to work for me nowadays. That and after cramming a painting into six days I think I earned some tablet drawing.

The subject matter is fan art of a character I haven't drawn in a while. He's a werewolf of sorts and to me it would be a fun quirk if he communicated with dogs (including wolves) well enough to chill out with them. The wolves are possibly way too large, but that's deliberate.

Week 7 Crawls Towards the Finish

What I'm looking forward to the most this week is being finished with this painting. I took a break from it yesterday, which was a relief.  My eyes needed a rest from looking at all of the errors. This morning I did some touching up and added some flames that hopefully look like they are twirling with her dress. Tonight the game plan is to stay up until it's finished and then collapse into a satisfied heap in my bed.

Week 8 is going to be something fun and completely self-indulgent.

More of Week 7

This is growing incredibly boring. But, an assignment is an assignment. Also it came to my attention by staring at this painting too long that Katniss looks like a line-backer so I'm trying to slim her down considerably. This photo was taken with flash on so you could at least see more of it. The sad truth remains that there will only be a decent photo of it once it's in the studio at the school.

Week 7 Shuffles

There's not a whole lot added to this update, but there is some. It's difficult to time building up paint when the whole thing is drying slower due to the cold (oils dry faster in heat). But it is slowly turning into what it needs to. I'm confident in finishing by Wednesday. Tomorrow I hope to add the final highlights and low-lights to Katniss' skin and maybe start detailing her hair so it's actually visible. I took this one during daylight so the lighting is slightly less awful.

Week 7 Brightens Up A Bit

I apologize that this isn't as clear as I would like. My apartment has terrible electric lighting and I couldn't use natural light because it was dark outside when I took the photo.

Anyway, just blocked in some more details and the shape of the dress. Whoosh!