Art Journey Update February 2018

Hello! I haven't posted in awhile due to cold weather hindering my learning progress from bones and joints hurting (can't take pain meds because they cause me to have asthma) so I have been on a heating pad a lot! But I have been learning some with lighting and trying to get back into drawing everyday.

Here are a couple of practice studies of Lighting from Sam Neilson's Fundamentals of Lighting Class at Schoolism.

Here's an eye study!

Here's an ear study! It felt so good to digital paint again! I used a pastel brush to paint and smudge colors then a skin texture and noise brush to add texture. And a hair brush. The drawings didn't take long but coloring took about 3 hours. It's not perfect, but I am pleased with it.

Thanks for looking!
~Kirsten

A Very late post for October 2017 Art Journey

This is a very late post as I have been having quite a lot of pain from my degenerative discs in my neck and back. But I had been studying light and color from 2 Schoolism online classes, and boy are they tough! I needed a break and decided to do Mabs Drawlloween club this year on Instagram. It is not really a break, but I am practicing my “draw what you see, not what you think you see” using the knowledge I have gathered from the past year. I did some observational painting in my iPad app called Procreate on some of these and then since I got so behind (due to pain in my neck and back from degenerative discs) that I just drew some in a sketchbook. I drew them completely out of order but I was determined to get these done. I had originally wanted to do a theme with characters from animated movies and tv shows but some like mothman are just drawn from my noggin. I really enjoyed this and it exercised my mind and improved my drawing faster. I do prefer drawing my sketches with pencil on paper. You don’t get that “feeling” drawing digitally.

I have grouped them in order so it is not such along post showing 31 pieces of my art!

Also, most of this is fan art.

Thank you for looking!
Have a wonderful and safe holiday season!
~Kirsten