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I have about come to the end of this little fella. I will spend a little more time strengthening the values around the mouth and neck, but I think for the most part I’m going to call this done. Hopefully I can get finished up what I need to and get this in a matte to present to his folks this upcoming weekend. Nobody tell his mother because it’s a surprise.
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Portrait WIP V
 When last we left our hero, he was contemplating starting over on the nose of our little friend…
If you look at his nose in this image, you can see that it’s not quite right to the photo. It gives him kind of a muzzle that’s not really there. |
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 Got the nose all put back into place and started laying in some features to the hair and ear. I really only started that to distract me from the main face so that I wouldn’t over work it. I’m fixated on it right now and it’s already starting to look “smudgy” instead of soft. Since the ear and the hair are not really the focal points, I probably won’t put too much detail in, just enough so you can see what’s going on. I need to finish the shape of the chin and the facial shading and I think I’ll have it. |
Just over two weeks ago, I started a portrait of a friends toddler. Working in my little makeshift studio, at about 30 minutes a session, I believe that I am closing in on this tyke. I didn’t get to work on this very much over Labor Day Weekend. I would like to say that it was because I was fixing my motorcycle or working on my landscaping or even simply playing soccer with Girl2. But, alas, the reason I did not get much done this weekend was that I received a simple card in the mail from Big Fish Games about a new game they released, Drawn. This thing is beautiful and I played it five times this weekend. I can’t wait for the sequel. Maybe I’ll have this portrait done by then.
“Like a Red Rubber Ball…”
This is the kind of thing that makes my dinner cold. I get an idea in my head and I have to put it to paper. This afternoon we had lunch at my grandmother’s house. The long standing tradition there is that while waiting for lunch, I would always read the “Red” funnies. That’s the funnies that are in color in the Sunday paper. I know they haven’t been called that in a very long time, but my granny still does. Anyway, I got in mind to do a Sunday comic similar to Ziggy. I have been quietly obsessing over it all evening. Then, after we had ordered our calzone from a local restaurant and it was time for me to leave to pick it up, I decided it was time to work on it. After the fourth time my beautiful young bride reminded me that the food was ready to be picked up, I called it finished.
EDM 128 is to Draw People Doing Something. I DESPERATELY need for my day job to come under control so that I can get back to my figure drawing group. This was a fun time going out to a local Java Dave’s coffee shop. The two guys making my coffee were a lot of fun to talk to and the owners even pulled up a stool to visit with me. I spent about ten minutes drawing and TWO HOURS visiting until they closed down.
