Day 10 of 4 New Pics a Day!

It's my tenthdayversary! To reward myself, I'm going to go to bed early tonight. Maybe going to do four paintings tommorrow and no drawings... think that'd be fun for you guys?

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37) Cubes



Just working out some plans and angles, cubes and cylinders, foreshortening and depth, lighting and things. This sort of practice will get more interesting, but it's neccessary to get these sorts of foundations in place first.

38) SketchingPoses



After all this gesture drawing, it's time to start working stuff out of my head - I'm getting better at this. Sorry for the weird contrast issues here, I don't have access to Photoshop on this comp, so about the best I can do is 'equalize' the image, which does weirdness like this - that, and I'll use a darker pencil next time. In the original image the lines were almost invisible, which why I had to force it like this. Ah well.

39) SashimiAndPlant



Piece delicious salmon Sashime (raw salmon), and some plant flower I just invented. Little sketch, but fun.

40) MountainLake



More playing around with light, depth, scale, foreground->midground->background, non-blue skies, and different sorts of water. Sort of a cold, wintry feel to thtis one, despite the green bits of field. I really should start signing these.