Ack almost a month

That was not the plan when I made this blog! An upload a month is hardly a commitment. Although it is much easier to feel creative on your second weekday off in a row, when I haven't already had my face attached to a screen for 8 hours. Not that I don't love my job, but sometimes you need to give your eyes a break!

I scribbled this, and then started trying to 'paint' it. But boy do I suck at painting without a reference. I know how things should look, but they always come out look weird and bloated or flattened. Would love to attend a class of some description. So rather than ruin the drawing I slapped some shade on underneath and played with the lighting.

From the back

I doodled this the other night in a half hour or so, just sort of splodging around and messing with the smudge tool in photoshop.

I need to draw way more than my current rate. Consider myself slapped on the wrist and making an attempt at upping the ante.

Smudge and slash

After showing the previous painting attempt to a friend he recommend I work faster with less strokes and more blending.

It definitely looks a whole lot better, especially the face. I can't tell you how much I can't wait to just be an ace at drawing faces. I somehow usually manage to flatten the form somehow or just make them look plain odd.

Also I made 'low fat' brownies tonight, although I think the low fat thing is cancelled out if you eat three of them.

A corner of my own

Since I moved to London I have variously worked on my lap, on kitchen tables, on strange plastic stands, on my bed, and everywhere in between. So, thanks to the wonder of men and their carrying/self assembly abilities, I now have a proper little desk tucked into the corner of our room. So I can happily squirrel myself away and do work or pretend to work.

Painting for this evening:

My problem with painting in photoshop is refining it. I want it to still look painty and texturey, but they always look unfinished. I could work on this more but I told myself that I couldn't go to bed until I'd posted something.

I also read 'Cages' by Dave McKean the other week. A quote in there states that paintings are never finished, they just stop at interesting points (or something like that). So, I'm using that as my explanation so far.

Nighty night world.

Pandas

This is what I did the other night, started colouring up one but like I said, zombies invaded my after-work time... maybe I'll draw some zombies. Scratch that, I'm DRAWING zombies!

Got distracted...

... by my friend giving me the first four Walking Dead comics to feast on. Gave the beat down to the first two yesterday evening, I'll have to seriously struggle to pull myself away from them tonight. OR, pull my sleeves up, crack my knuckles and finish the bastards in a couple of hours. Yeah, right on!

Quick life drawing

I did some timed poses the other night, and actually the only ones worth showing are the 30 second ones. It seems the longer I get to draw something the more I lose the gesture.

These are actually from a few weeks ago, I feel a bit guilty. So I'm doing some more drawing tonight to either put up later or tomorrow. I'm also trying to help a friend build a new website, ack I hate layout sometimes. It's the little things that pull it all together.

Anyway, whatever it is I should be doing, I better go do it!