Day 1 30 Day Challenge - Special Delivery cat study
HAPPY NEW YEAR 2017!!
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Yes, it's HERE again, the 30 paintings in 30 days challenge. I always debate now whether or not to do it, but usually end up going forward because there are always things I learn and the benefits of doing back to back paintings is usually huge. It's a mini capsule to see your work improve before your eyes in 30 days. I have learned to that if I don't do 30 the world doesn't end and I have taken pressure off of myself to just have more fun.
For this challenge I decided to work on animals and try to see if I can get a better fur/feather/scale technique as I am not sure what animal might appear as we go through the month. I am also working out of a book (Anne DeMille Flood's Realistic Pet Portraits, I have that is about color pencil, but I want to try the color layering/receipes in color pencil in other media to see how it turns out, might come up with some new color receipts. This cat is a study, 4.5"x4.5", of one that I want to use in a larger picture, many thanks to takart from PMP for the photo, and decided that the larger picture might benefit from having a practice first.
TIP: Avoid blunt or abrupt edges where the fur joins the highlight. Fur has a random pattern, so the edges of highlight areas within the fur are jagged.
The reason there are two photos here is that the on the right is where I was going to stop yesterday. Instead I let it sit overnight and decided to come back in this morning and highlight some areas and do a few subtle changes and see if it made a more finished picture. I think that I am usually in too much of a hurry and should work a bit past where I usually stop.
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Yes, it's HERE again, the 30 paintings in 30 days challenge. I always debate now whether or not to do it, but usually end up going forward because there are always things I learn and the benefits of doing back to back paintings is usually huge. It's a mini capsule to see your work improve before your eyes in 30 days. I have learned to that if I don't do 30 the world doesn't end and I have taken pressure off of myself to just have more fun.
For this challenge I decided to work on animals and try to see if I can get a better fur/feather/scale technique as I am not sure what animal might appear as we go through the month. I am also working out of a book (Anne DeMille Flood's Realistic Pet Portraits, I have that is about color pencil, but I want to try the color layering/receipes in color pencil in other media to see how it turns out, might come up with some new color receipts. This cat is a study, 4.5"x4.5", of one that I want to use in a larger picture, many thanks to takart from PMP for the photo, and decided that the larger picture might benefit from having a practice first.
TIP: Avoid blunt or abrupt edges where the fur joins the highlight. Fur has a random pattern, so the edges of highlight areas within the fur are jagged.
The reason there are two photos here is that the on the right is where I was going to stop yesterday. Instead I let it sit overnight and decided to come back in this morning and highlight some areas and do a few subtle changes and see if it made a more finished picture. I think that I am usually in too much of a hurry and should work a bit past where I usually stop.
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