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Less is More Creed and a Smurf

Published March 28, 2012 illustration 3 Comments
Tags: art, baby, baby girl, black and white drawing, children, children portrait, concept, creed, design, drawing, drawings, figurative, fine art, girl, illustration, journal experience, less is more, light, new, pastel, pastels, pencil, portrait, progress, sketch, sketch book, smile, smurf, space

Well I think I am done. I always reach a point on a drawing where I have to step back and realize if I do too much more I will destroy the beauty I created. Hence the less is more creed, it does hold true more often than not. Still I am not going to hold my breath, I don’t think I could pull off the smurf look. Besides its my customer who makes the final call so I am hoping my customer likes it as much as I do. Once its approved I will sign it and I will post one final update on Renna. I will try to move through my process and provide some tips on drawing a portrait and/or working with this particular media.

Precious

Published March 27, 2012 illustration 4 Comments
Tags: art, baby, baby girl, black and white drawing, children, children portrait, concept, drawing, drawings, fine art, girl, illustration, journal experience, light, new, pastel, pastels, pencil, portrait, precious, progress, sketch, sketch book, smile, space

I am really excited that I have this portrait almost done. I know I have some more tweaking to do here and there, but it is getting really close. One of my biggest challenges is to make sure I don’t get too much detail going on in her shirt, but enough to show its there and allow the baby to pop.

I am a little sad to be getting ready to saying good bye to this sweet little face and not seeing her beautiful smile as I work daily; so precious. What do you think?

“Oh my goodness you have hair”

Published March 25, 2012 illustration 1 Comment
Tags: art, baby, baby girl, black and white drawing, children portrait, concept, design, drawing, drawings, figurative, fine art, graphic, illustration, journal experience, light, new, pastel, pencil, portrait, progress, sketch, sketch book, space

So here’s the latest portrait update. I am starting to render in the hair and clothes. I am just awe struck, she is coming to life before my eyes.

Crazy Time, Sharpening Frustrations, & Bracket Madness

Published March 18, 2012 portrait Leave a Comment
Tags: art, baby, baby girl, black and white drawing, characters, charcoal, children, concept, drawing, drawings, figurative, fine art, illustration, journal experience, light, pastels, pencil, progress, sketch, sketch book, space, white charcoal

Its been a crazy week. I have barely had time to work on my current project til today. I am still excited at where its going. I have to say this drawing is the highlight to my week and of course my new sewing machine. I am still struggling with soft pencils and my sharpener, I think it is sanding one side down more than another… not exactly sure why. So hoping I won’t be needing a new one. If anyone has suggestions it would be much appreciated. I feel like crying when I lose a pencil due to faulty equipment—just so frustrating.

The low note, bracket-wise Wichita State lost…. Sad to say the least. And even Kansas State lost today. The upsets are making things interesting (with so many #2s losing out).

Hope I get some more drawing time in tomorrow.

Highlights and Sandpaper

Published March 13, 2012 portrait 7 Comments
Tags: art, baby, baby girl, black and white drawing, canson mi tientes, children, children portrait, colored paper, concept, drawing, drawings, figurative, fine art, illustration, journal experience, lead, light, new, pencil, progress, sketch, sketch book, space, white charcoal

I can’t believe how much I was able to do this past weekend. Sadly I did have a white charcoal pencil decide to disintegrate, luckily the others are staying solid. I have started trying to use sandpaper on the really soft pencils to get my point, when the pencil sharpener seems like overkill. Overall I think its really starting to come together and you can see her personality coming through. I have included my reference with the portrait update this time.

black and white baby girl drawing with reference

A Weekend Of Creativity

Published March 12, 2012 portrait 3 Comments
Tags: art, baby, baby girl, baby portrait, black and white drawing, children, children portrait, concept, design, drawing, drawings, figurative, fine art, girl, illustration, journal experience, light, pencil, progress, realism, shaded drawing, shading, sketch, sketch book, smile, space

I am loving this expression, portrait update #3. Having an industrious and creative weekend, plan on knocking out some more today.

Shading Begins

Published March 10, 2012 illustration 1 Comment
Tags: art, baby, baby girl, children, concept, drawing, drawings, figurative, fine art, illustration, journal experience, light, new, pencil, portrait, progress, sketch book, smile, space

Here is the portrait update #2. I think its heading in the right direction since I am getting excited and feeling good about it.

Light Sketching

Published March 9, 2012 illustration 1 Comment
Tags: art, baby, black and white drawing, concept, drawing, drawings, figurative, fine art, girl, illustration, journal experience, light, new, pencil, portrait, progress, sketch, sketch book, space

This is the first update for this portrait of a baby girl. To begin I worked a very light sketch, I am hoping it is still legible over the web. Due to the media being a very dark pencil with white highlights I wanted to sketch lightly as not to pose problems later as I start to shade the lightest areas of the drawing. Hope to get even more done this weekend.

Cats don’t like water, diving in anyways

Published February 23, 2012 experience , illustration , portrait 10 Comments
Tags: art, cat, color, concept, design, drawing, drawings, figurative, fine art, graphic, head, illustration, journal experience, light, painting, pastel, pastels, pencil, progress, short hair, tabby

Making some progress today, I dove in head first and just ran with it. Here is update #2 on the latest portrait project. I am really liking the direction of the eyes. Having some difficulty with keeping my pencils sharp for the detail. I really hate it when my pencils keep breaking down in the sharpener. I am sure this won’t be the last and it isn’t the first either. No worries I still like the new sharpener, I think its the pencil this time. I still wonder if this is going faster than the larger drawings, which I have to admit, I prefer working larger. If I can hit the mark on this one I will have to try more smaller projects, especially if it takes less time.

Meow!

Published February 21, 2012 experience , illustration , journal , portrait 1 Comment
Tags: art, cat, characters, color, concept, design, drawing, drawings, figurative, fine art, meow. kitty, new, painting, pastel, pastels, pencil, progress, sketch, sketch book, space

I meant to get this on here this weekend. Its funny how free time gets filled so very quickly. The weather finally cooperated so I delivered Dakota and cleaned up my studio. I have started work on a kitty. This is one of the smallest ones I have done in a while. Will have to see if this goes faster due to the size and if I am able to keep the detail at a smaller scale. Here’s the initial sketch.

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Posts Tagged 'concept'

Less is More Creed and a Smurf

Precious

“Oh my goodness you have hair”

Crazy Time, Sharpening Frustrations, & Bracket Madness

Highlights and Sandpaper

A Weekend Of Creativity

Shading Begins

Light Sketching

Cats don’t like water, diving in anyways

Meow!

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