"We'll Ascend together" kinda terrifies me, But in general I think that these are coming out really nicely! The leg fix does help a lot, to bad it was past due.
Alice in Wonderland themed illustration of my cousin's daughter, but right now it's looking far too dull to be Wonderland. I'd like to make the composition/landscape a bit more interesting, but without getting terribly busy.
You're so right! The trees could be way more awesome. Love those examples! I'll work on that.
Meanwhile, I had three deadlines somehow converge on one week and life has been chaos. Here's the first one. They wanted to be extra fancy and wear plaid, and for those reasons, I think this is my favorite thing I've done recently.
You probably done have time to fix this with your deadline apocalypse, but the dudes arms should probably be showing up somewhere, unless he has them behind him. The right one could be down by his wifes side, but I cant seem to mentally excuse the left one for being totally unseen.
And a new project in the works: a blank wall in my kitchen inspired me to paint a series of vegetables. Not exactly earth-shattering, but I'm really excited about it. I'd like to go for botanical illustration meets American folk art. And I'm actually going to finish this one! 6 weeks and counting...
And I'll have one more, probably a leafy green for variety, possibly chard. Kale might be trendier and all, but I've always thought chard looks really enticing.
Quick color studies. Hopefully these compositions will make sense together, design-wise. Getting excited and nervous to finally paint something and actually finish a personal project for the first time in... a really long time.
Here's the painting mostly done. I'll probably go in and lighten up those sanded edges a bit. (And get a better scan of it). Acrylic, prismacolor, and oil on hardboard panel.
And, up next: radish. Here's a drawing and color study.
Nice! Really wonderful polish on the carrot. The foliage is amazingly sharp.
I feel like the nib at the bottom is slightly blurry and reminiscent of pencil lines, but thats a small nitpick and it may not be worth touching up. I'd love to see a time lapse of you painting these! really cool stuff.
Just went through the whole thread and your improvement is really visible! That vegetable set looks sweet (the finished carrot and radish look like they'd be perfect in a cook/gardening book) but the cabbage looks a lot like a butt to me.
Thanks for the feedback, guys! The cabbage is rather butt-like, lol. Will def fix that at some point. So I finally finished the first three of the series. 3 more to go!
Well, thank you! The goal (besides hanging them in my kitchen) is to do a small kickstarter to fund some prints and fridge magnets to sell. Here are the product images I've come up with so far for the campaign page. Video is in the works. Photography is not something I'm great at, so I had to photoshop quite a bit.
Thanks, @Sublimus! I've had a lot of unfinished personal projects, so it feels really good to be seeing this one through (even if it's taking forever).
Glad you liked the video! Almost 75%, so it's getting there
Finished these last November, spent December shipping rewards and about a month later popped out a baby who (surprise!) has largely required my attention since then (hence the hiatus). Hoping to ease back into Art soon, though. At the very least, I should be doing some figure studies.
Anyway, it was an interesting experience doing the Kickstarter... and a whole buttload of work, for sure. Now I have some inventory I can hopefully unload online and at farmer's markets/craft fairs. Most of all, I'm just glad I finished something. Hurray!
Thanks, Iruka! Haven't done much since, but I'm determined to eke out some more work. Been revisiting that nursery art series I started three years ago, and figure I'll do one at a time for however long it takes. Trying to keep it fairly simple. Here's a messy color study for the first one.
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And, what are they doing in that forest anyways?
https://www.pinterest.com/pin/314548355196796292/
https://www.pinterest.com/pin/94997873363549300/
I think you can retain the simple style but not have it feel quite so flat. You can also push the silhouettes:
https://www.pinterest.com/pin/353040058267432930/
or push the graphic nature of them:
https://www.pinterest.com/pin/201676889538730107/
Meanwhile, I had three deadlines somehow converge on one week and life has been chaos. Here's the first one. They wanted to be extra fancy and wear plaid, and for those reasons, I think this is my favorite thing I've done recently.
You probably done have time to fix this with your deadline apocalypse, but the dudes arms should probably be showing up somewhere, unless he has them behind him. The right one could be down by his wifes side, but I cant seem to mentally excuse the left one for being totally unseen.
Also, deadlines 2 and 3.
A couple spot illustrations for that one magazine
And a new project in the works: a blank wall in my kitchen inspired me to paint a series of vegetables. Not exactly earth-shattering, but I'm really excited about it. I'd like to go for botanical illustration meets American folk art. And I'm actually going to finish this one! 6 weeks and counting...
And I'll have one more, probably a leafy green for variety, possibly chard. Kale might be trendier and all, but I've always thought chard looks really enticing.
Here's the painting mostly done. I'll probably go in and lighten up those sanded edges a bit. (And get a better scan of it). Acrylic, prismacolor, and oil on hardboard panel.
And, up next: radish. Here's a drawing and color study.
I feel like the nib at the bottom is slightly blurry and reminiscent of pencil lines, but thats a small nitpick and it may not be worth touching up. I'd love to see a time lapse of you painting these! really cool stuff.
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Glad that you're seeing this through!
Edit: Just saw your kickstarter video. Really cute, and well done! Glad to see you're almost funded too!
Glad you liked the video! Almost 75%, so it's getting there
Final drawing and color study for #5
Together at last:
The video:
https://youtu.be/Ylnb-p-vHDQ
Anyway, it was an interesting experience doing the Kickstarter... and a whole buttload of work, for sure. Now I have some inventory I can hopefully unload online and at farmer's markets/craft fairs. Most of all, I'm just glad I finished something. Hurray!
And, because I just can't help myself:
Totally worth it.