I found a new passion towards digital painting, and all thanks to a program called ArtRage and its tools that give it that same traditional feeling that I enjoy.
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Friday, November 25, 2016
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Saturday, July 30, 2016
Summer Art Sale on ETSY!
A bunch of fun and colorful paintings are on sale at my Etsy shop!
All must go so I can make some space to create new stuff :)
All must go so I can make some space to create new stuff :)
Sunday, June 28, 2015
Bird Practice - Acrylic Painting
I used the craft quality
acrylics because they are more opaque, more liquid, less glossy and I
find them easier to work with.
I started with the
background and it wasn't too hard to get smooth blending effect, but
it had to be done quick while the paint is still wet.
I enjoyed working on the
bird itself but I couldn't get the feather detail that I wanted
because the painting is really small.
This painting was also
supposed to be photorealistic looking. As I said before (on the oil
painting post), I think it would be best to leave that look to the
actual photos, but it is rewarding to know I can create something
that looks so similar to a photo.
I prefer the acrylic
medium over other mediums because it dries fast and it's easy to
repaint and fix mistakes.
Time: 2 hours
Fun level: 8/10
Difficulty level: 8/10
Success level: 9/10
I liked that it didn't
take a lot of time and I got really used to painting fast, so the no
waiting time for it to dry is a plus in my book.
I was engaged with working
on this painting for the full 2 hours and I enjoyed that.
I gave it a high
difficulty score because for many people, the fast pace is a problem
and getting close to photorealism does require a lot of skill and
practice.
I gave myself a high score
because I really like the end result, subtracted 1 because the grey
feathers could look better.
Saturday, June 27, 2015
Bird Practice - Collage
Fun fun and more fun!
I found it very exciting
assembling a bunch of different colors and textures and patterns
together to make this image... I guess flipping through a clothing
magazine looking for the colors I wanted, added to the fun as well :)
There was a lot of mess to
clean up at the end though.
Time: 2 hours
Fun level: 9/10
Difficulty level: 4/10
Success level: 9/10
-1 point in fun for the
aftermath clean up.
It wasn't too hard to make
and I even did similar collages with my younger students and they
made wonderful pieces, even if the colors weren't matching too much
the reference image, overall it looked very interesting and
expressive.
I gave myself a high
success score because while it's not perfect, I really like how it
turned out.
Friday, June 26, 2015
Bird Practice - Colored Pencils Drawing
I have pretty cheap
colored pencils so it could look better with higher quality pencils.
I couldn't get the colors to be as bright as I wanted.
I personally didn't enjoy
this drawing as much, it's not a very forgiving medium, hard to
erase.
I enjoy mixing colors, and
with colored pencils it's better to pick the closest color pencil to
what you need because they don't blend as well as paint does.
Time: less than 2 hours.
Fun level: 5/10
Difficulty level: 7/10
Success level: 6/10
It wasn't one of my
favorite practice pieces, but I definitely didn't hate it. I found it
kind of tedious to look for that pencil that had the color I needed.
I rated the difficulty
level at pretty high because there is very little room for mistakes.
Overall I think I did an
okay job considering what I had to work with.
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