Daisy

Daisy from Danny Luvisi's book Last Man Standing!
progress:

1 hr sketch

About a 1 hour sketch/study - I really wanted to emphasize the orange bounce light and slight subsurface scattering in the nose and lips. I'll do another quick study with a heavy subsurface light source.. Aaaaannd completely unrelated to drawing, I want to document how to use Z-depth for focus and fog - before i forget.. Open image Paste the zdepth as a new layer on top go to channels window and Ctrl+left click rgb layer use this as new alpha layer deselect and select regular layer filters-->blur-->lens blur click on the image where you want it in focus adjust radius to increase/decrease the amount of blur needed cool! now for fog.. not quite sure, but invert zdepth and mess with blending modes such as exclusion

Emerald

Took me a while to finish this! I learned and grew so much as an artist on this piece - can't wait to start my next! Tada!

Progress:

Frog

Spent most of my time messing with brushes and mark-making

Sketchchch

learned a lot on this one.. brought up a ton of ideas - now all i need is time! and another, about an hour. it didnt turn out too close to what i was imagining in my head, so ill redo it soon

annnnnd update - did a quick sketch that was closer to what i had in my head.. pretty different than the first sketch huh? lol i think ill render this one out a little more, so here's just a tease

Another 2hr sketch!

this time, a lighting study

2hr Portrait sketch

spent a couple hours working on the colors in the face - ended up kinda looking like selina kyle? woulda kept going but trying to limit to at least 2 hours.. tough!