Week 14 - Art-Ception!

This week I'm drawing a character who is drawing. Since I'm eager to start inking I just took a photo here at the school. Somehow everything is... bluish. I also wanted to attempt a different angle for anatomy practice's sake. I'll post my reference next time.

And more Liam Neeson-in progress goodness. I'm rather pleased with his shirt and aside from defining the edges better I have no intentions of touching it further and ruining it.

Week 13: A Howling Toddler and Liam Neeson

The bottom half of this seed of the underworld isn't cooperating so I'll draw her clutching the handle of the shopping cart and call it good. I'll also give the cart behind her more detail so it doesn't look like she's in a roller coaster. That would have been an acceptable reason for the unholy racket she was making.

I finished inking the other two drawings but they don't look much different than the last update. I will be coloring them digitally for the sake of tidiness and some people want prints of some of them.

Liam Neeson was not at the grocery store last Monday, but maybe if he had been the toddler would have been so in awe of his awesomeness that she shut up. Either that or my cousins and I would have been so distracted by his handsome visage that we wouldn't have noticed the constant siren wails.

I like how his face is coming along.

Week 13 Will Return After These Messages

While I have started doing concept sketches for this week's art project, none of them have been scanned and none of the actual drawings have been started. I am not without new artwork, however, so here's some things I've been doing for Painting and Printmaking to hold you over until tomorrow.

Since I can't remember if I showed the more or less finished version of the Crime and Punishment painting on here yet or not, here it is... possibly for the second time. The rim of the mug needs fixed but other than that I'm pretty satisfied.

I've also started my next painting which is sort of... corny... but eh. It's portrait practice, obviously of Liam Neeson with some North Irish landscape in the background, since that's where the man hails from. I also haven't touched it since last Wednesday because I played hooky yesterday.

Last is my latest print, which is polyester lithography and I'm too tired to go into the long explanation of how it works. Google would probably do better, but here's a photo of the plate I drew on (Bottom) and one of the prints that came off of it (top). The teacher mentioned at midterms that my prints have an angry theme (gee I wonder why?), so might as well keep going in that direction.

Week 8 - Complete and Compare

Yesterday was when I finally gained confidence about this project, because it finally started looking like him, and to more than just me. A lot of my family members on Facebook agreed, which boosted my confidence a lot. The photo you see here was only used as a reference after a majority of the work was done. Before that I was working from his high school senior photo because it's large and I could prop it up beside my computer screen. Of course, it was taken twenty years before my father died, but it was a good base to start with.

The thing about my dad's hair is that it's not the same color in ANY two photos. Or it sure doesn't seem like it. Sometimes it's blond-ish, sometimes it's more brown. I decided to go half-way. Also, the drawing apparently has a golden tint on some computer monitors, which is a pity because that's not what color it is. I adjusted the tint just a little, but I don't think it's enough to make a difference.

This was my first time trying a portrait digitally, and I hadn't done one for quite a while even on paper. It was... interesting. Not bad for a first shot, really. In fact, this is the first time I've drawn my father and been happy with it.

Music: None, but watching "Taken" (starring Liam Neeson) while I added finishing touches.