My Art Workshop

Today’s submission for February in Colors. I met a group of interesting Danish artists. Being part of a group, working on and sharing a creative process, is very inspiring.

Getting a finished piece done each day is a challenge. Especially as the days progress, I realized I needed some sort of routine and a specific style to stick to for this series.

The style I settled on is a mix of water color, soft pastels and digital tools and the motives are mostly drawings I do at croquis exercises or anatomy studies. I like what I produced this week.

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Yesterday I had fun experimenting with anatomy doing another of the Croquis Cafes on Youtube. I did number 138 which is technically cheating my own system, since I am doing them in sequence and I have done number 72 – 80 by now. But I got tired of drawing naked ladies, so I went for Dwayne here instead.

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I created a super low poly 3D scene in Blender. Sketchdaily had a beer theme a few days ago. I decided this would fit just fine, if I could get a nice Blender render of it. Setting up lighting, finding a good camera angle, and getting a nice render without frying my computer was a challenge. After adding a few Photoshop filters I submitted this result.

The items were made to be imported to a game, so I had to keep the polycount super low. Had I created this solely for a nice render, I would have smoothed out a lot of edges. Still even with its roughness, I like the render as well and the items looks great in the game 🙂
The beer texture for the scene was hard to get right. Finding a bubble brush for Photoshop and using a lot of layers to give a sense of debt in the liquid did help.

February in Colors 6. I had drawn the lady years ago while on vacation. She was the result of me reading Andrew Loomis drawing book with lots of advice on how to draw the human figure. I tested the tricks out while drawing this lady. She is not a living human, but rather someone who apparently was living in my imagination 🙂

For February in Colors I used her as the base for the style I have decided on in this challenge. Using masking fluid to keep areas clean; I used a very loose watercolor style. I feel good about having given life to a person, who has rested in my imagination for a long time.