3/25

Still in the mood to just draw something fun, I did a sketch the other night of something a little more strange compared to some of my more recent works. I liked the sketch a lot and almost decided against doing a painting and just keeping it all pencil, but I like color too much and of course decided to do so. Here is the sketch along with the finished piece.

I haven't had much practice with acrylics before so I wasn't too confident going into this one, but I think it turned out well in the end. I have been in the mood to draw/paint a lot lately and I am trying to take advantage of it while I can, but I have a lot to do at the moment and it isn't so easy right now. Other than this, I have been drawing/painting daily, I am trying to finish up three more commissioned paintings by this weekend. These are of trucks/cranes though for my uncles company. It's not a hard thing to draw and paint but it just isn't much fun and as a result the lack of motivation and enthusiasm sometimes makes me careless with them. I will most likely post pictures of them soon just because. Here is a progress picture I took of my last one.

Bird Knight Fight

So maybe its a bit of the nerdier side of me but I grew up playing video games like the Final Fantasy's, Zelda's, and all of that stuff. In fact I could probably say that those games were the reason I wanted to draw at a young age when I did. Anyways, I kind of needed a break from trying to draw something meaningful and just wanted to draw something fun. I did a sketch one night of two bird-knights fighting and had alot of fun doing it. The first picture was my very first initial sketch that I made of the image for fun. I decided I liked it enough that I took the concept and drew out a more refined drawing of it and would decide if I wanted to do a painting or not. Well I liked the second sketch alot also so I transferred it onto watercolor paper. I wanted to make this different than my recent works so I kept the colors kind of dull and more realistic. I focused alot on shadows and highlights on this one and avoided doing any pen or heavy pencil outlining also. I was happy with the outcome which can be seen below. Enjoy.

I have been painting pretty much every day now, mostly just commissioned work though for some cash. I should be able to post up this month's and last month's commissioned works this week or the next, not that it is anything too exciting anyways. I do have a complete sketch ready for paint and a rough sketch/idea for another personal picture to be done after that! :)