Since setting aside the daily image project, I’ve easily been still drawing each day, but I feel much freer. That makes me happy. I do want to post regularly here though, at least twice a week would be ideal. I took a break from on of my work projects and doodled this creature.

Here’s the updated drawing where I tried to get more specific with both his anatomy and clothing/outfit.

And the painted version. I learned a lot here, but there are definitely some elements that need work. One area is that of the clothing, I don’t quite like how the light falls on it. It doesn’t feel enough like cloth, and instead I think had a bit too much shine to it. I should do some cloth/clothing studies to tackle that.

I did a quick backup of my laptop and restored it to factory defaults. Of course during the re-install, I realized I had missed a file (to backup). When my computers are running smoothly I think about the need to backup all my files, but I make plans to do so later. Everything’s okay now, I have time to wait! Well, later is when your computer isn’t working. So my cautionary tale suggests that you backup sooner than later!

Well I have all my computers back and running. They replaced the video card on my iMac leaving everything else intact. Time to follow my own advice and backup the rest of my files.

I didn’t want to wait to photograph and post these later, so I’m dealing with less than ideal images. On the second sketch I ended up doing a few paint-overs to help figure out where I might want to take the sketch.

I was just working on canvas paper again and used a limited palette, pretty much just used white, black, and burnt sienna, plus a bit of blue for the background (greyed down).