6/7/15 - Further Progress on this portrait

Oh I've got a fun and hopefully cool idea in store. But for today, all I have is another update on the portrait:

I started to realize just how badly diminishing returns affects detail in Illustration. I did a lot more work on this, but the level of detail means that each bit I refine adds less value per time spent than it did on the last pass.

Well, that aside, I'll hopefully be done with this piece by tomorrow, and from there I hope to have enough of this "cool idea" to show. If not, it'll be anatomy/figure drawing studies.

So I'll be back tomorrow!

6/6/15 - One Final Portrait Progress

Yep! Quick update again; it's a busy week. Hell, it's a busy summer. So here's the progress I made in an hour or so:

Mostly figuring out where I want all the facial features. I still think I need to adjust proportion a bit more. I'll start on that tomorrow.

Till then!

6/5/15 - One Final Portrait

Yes I'm doing it again. One last time. For now.

So yeah, I'm doing a Cardinal portrait again. Here's the beginnings of the value stage. I redid it as I'm not all that happy with my previous attempt.

So, that's all for now. I got my tablet working again and this was all I could muster for now. More progress on this piece tomorrow!

6/4/15 - Even Further Comparison

So I'm redoing one final portrait here. Okay? One more. I'm redoing Cardinal again. For the mentorship! It's worth!

Well, I would be, but my tablet's being temperamental today. So sadly I don't have anything digital to show.

So I'm going to show another comparison. I found a similar portrait that I did one year (well, two days shy of a year; it was done on 6/6/14) ago. And I'll compare with that last portrait again:

Haha. Just about the same amount of time too.

Well, that's my daily motivation. I'll be back again (with something new this time) tomorrow!

6/3/15 - Still Portraiting

I'll be mixing it up soon, as I'll be moving on to anatomy at large. Almost done with the faces! Till then, enjoy four more rough ones:

Yeah. These updates have been getting somewhat monotonous and I apologize. I'm devoting more of my art time to this mentorship which means that I'm sticking to one subject and concentrating my time on this. Recently, that means practicing working in line, through repeated portrait sketches. I'm trying to ensure that I can handle a wide variety of faces and expressions. In addition, I found that my art time of late is actually more limited over the summer than it was during the schoolyear. So sorry for the repeated use of a single topic. But again, I'm going to be moving on this week, so there's that.

And I'll be back with the beginnings of these new studies...tomorrow!

6/2/15 - Coloring Yesterday's

All I've got today are rough color versions of yesterday's and the beginning of a Cardinal redo alongside them:

Not much else to say. I've got to fix my sleep and work schedule. That's on the agenda for this week.

Till tomorrow!

6/1/15 - Royal Sibling Portrait Exploration 1

Hey! Back to portraits, I'm afraid. I've got two more today:

The two are siblings in a story I'm working on. I tried to get a similar likeness yet still obviously the appearance of two different people, one older, one younger. As with most of the stuff here, not finished, and I'll likely be revisiting it, as well as more portraits, tomorrow.

So be back then!