Feb 11-17 Sketchbook
This week's sketches were primarily realistic studies of various insects as prep for illustrating a web header for an environmental website. What sheer pleasure! Usually I jump right onto the computer first thing, but no more! My new approach is to sketch these studies, then turn to the illustration with enough background to work loosely from memory, to keep the illustration fluid and somewhat naive. Of course, this is just a theory, time will tell if it really works like that!
I also did this little study of some cool kind of Robin for a painting. I started to sketch this somewhat realistically like the above drawings, but in the midst of sketching decided to use looser marks.
And here is the final painting. I have alot to learn about this medium, the color is much to saturated, the stroke too stiff. But I am VERY happy nonetheless because I actually finally PAINTED! Yay. I'm doing it and I'm learning and some day I will have the skill to make it look the way I want.
