"Admiration in Contour"

So my next semester of school I will be taking an advanced figure class and a large portion will be in full value charcoal which I don't work on as often as I should. So for my head study this day I sadly set my paints aside and focused on my charcoal skills. I love the contour line drawing left over in the left hand and hair and decided to leave it as is.

"Full Figure"

I don't add many full figures from my class studies to my blog. It's about 1 hr 50 min of time painting. My values improved a lot here, having the complete figure in the light side and still having it turn well. I didn't get to work on the face as much as I would've liked but for being blocked in quick I was satisfied.

"Wannabe Still-Life"

So I'm not confident with my still life at all. My focus lately has been primarily figure and faces.

The part that stands out the most to me is the color scheme; red, yellow, and blue. All very obvious, it gave this study a design feel that I usually struggle with.

"Superman" "Ghost Rider"

I wanted to work more with my pastel recently and had a short period of free time at work. I really enjoy using comic book characters with pastel because of the extreme color you can use and still have it work nicely.

"Elegance"

Here's another daily face I painted a couple weeks ago and am just barely getting it put up now. lol. I've been studying Malcolm Leipki a lot lately to improve on the feminine lips, which I think it has shown already some obvious progress in comparison to past entries.

"1944 - Amsterdam Holland"

This series of small paintings follows a book a friend is making for their family for Christmas . It was about a 2 1/2 week period I had to make them so it really was crunch time. I had lots of fun setting up the models and combining ideas from other pictures. My favorite by far is the farmer carrying the fast-asleep boy, the red blanket really made it dramatic for me and I got to use my permanent red deep straight out of the tube!