Trying to digital paint the right way...

First try 1 hour painting back on 5-18-11.....
Second try on 5-31-11.....

I'm having trouble with gradients.  Just keep painting.

Fairly Odd Painting

5-16-11 (1 hour painting)  Brought to you from the internet!!  Yet another excellent photograph of a cosplay that I did not make or photograph myself.  I could not resist tackling this one.  I love Cosmo from Fairly Odd Parents!  He's such an idiot, but his character is so genuinely sweet, you can overlook it....  Most times...  It's my theory about how his wife puts up with him anyway, "well, he's cute" can only take you so far... 0.o

It was a challenge painting this guy for many reasons.  I have trouble locking in the base values of the face, but I think was able to salvage it a bit towards the end of my hour.  (*whew)  I also think I need to go back to some earlier chapters in my Vilppu Drawing Manual again, my anatomy is off.  Though it could be because my wrist hurts so much today that it is a bit of a challenge upon a challenge to man a wacom tablet with the brace on your drawing hand. 

New Brush

5-12-11 (1 hour painting)  Yay!  Blogger's up again!  I wanted to post this last night...
So I now know why my work is being described as "feathery" even though I am using an solid brush in Photoshop.  I have been using the solid brush that is sensitive to pen pressure by mistake.  Glad that little mystery is solved.  That's a "*bangs head on keyboard" moment, to say the least.  So to make up for lost time, I tried to tackle a very complex photograph that I found a while back online of a Samus cosplayer.  I don't know her name or the photographer, unfortunately...

Anyway, I think I should have started on something a bit less complicated....  This one feels like a step backwards.  Also I feel that somehow with this brush, it looks more "feathery" now, at least along the edges, than ever before.  Oh well, just have to keep at it.

Contagious Reaction

5-8-11 (1 hour painting)  I was yawning so I painted a yawner.  Photograph and painting are both my own.

Lion cub

5-04-11 (1 hour painting)  Painting of a photograph I took at the Bronx Zoo.

Narrow View

5-1-11 (1 hour painting)  This is a painting of a photograph that I took from the "Narrow Bridge" overlooking an estuary, at low tide, near sunset.