Close ups:

Finished the one I was working on and banged out another. 4 to go. Uahhh…

For my final project in Advanced Technique and Style, taught by Todd Doney, we have to take one image and render it in 9 different techniques/styles/media. Here’s what I’ve done so far, in order of completion.

Still in progress:

And here’s the photograph I’m working from.

Kind of distracted today. I think I’m going to continue the painting and make it into something more finished for a friend.

Kind of off my game today. My favorite thing was the doodle at the top I did during the lecture.

I’ve been bringing my laptop and tablet with me to my figure drawing classes the last couple weeks. It was a little frustrating at first (partly from my memory being eaten up) and my drawings felt really sterile, but after purging my laptop of countless extraneous programs and startup system tray “helpers” (using the wonderful Revo Uninstaller) and switching to a ‘pastel’ brush it got really fun.