Kittens and Cats

Today  I give you two felines for your viewing pleasure.  I'm trying to figure out fur, but it's proving a bit difficult  I know it has a certain texture, but getting it just right is tough.  I want to paint a million little lines, but in addition to taking forever to do, that really isn't the style I want to paint in.  I want to be a bit looser than a literal interpretation of a cat.  An getting too loose just makes the cat look like a blob.  Im working on it and will get there soon, but it might take me a little bit.


For those of you who want to see how I painted these two, I'm attaching two videos below.

Mermaid

So, I got on a little bit of a mermaid kick lately.  It started a couple of weeks ago, and has just about run its course.  This might be about my last one.  I really think her tail fin turned out great on this on.  Also, I'm really happy that the shading of her skin turned out pretty good.

Under her hair is darker than her face and chest.  Her left arm is darker than her right.  She even has a little shadow on one butt cheek.  Not too back on a little painting.

The hair didn't quite turn out like I thought, but it isn't too bad either.  I'm totally happy with this little painting.

If you want to watch me paint this, you can view the video below.

Just a practice painting.  This is actually on the back side another painting in my sketch  book.  I was never intending this to be the greatest painting in the world, rather, I wanted to get some more experience with hair.  I think this hair is slightly better than some of the hair that I have done in the past.  I don't however think this is anywhere close to where I want to be.

The skin on her face got a little dark, I'll have to work on that too.

One thing I am happy about is that I drew this without any reference points or tracing.  I know its not the most technical thing i the world, but whenever I can do that and it looks like what it is supposed to look like, I am happy.

Enjoy.

Woman on blanket

This painting for sale  9x12  $30

Alright, instead of just a head, this time I thought I would tackle the whole body.  It's not a perfect painting by any stretch, but I think its pretty good.  I had a reference picture that was black and white, so any I had to come up with all the color on my own.  I think did  a pretty good job of capturing skin color.  I will admit that she probably could use a few hours in the sun.  I think if (or when) I go back and tinker with this one, I'll add a bit more definition to her chin and neck.

The hair was difficult, because in the reference picture, she had platinum blonde hair.  I'm not sure how to paint that, so I made hers a bit dirtier blonde.  

Like always, the hands are terribly hard.  The one across her torso was a bit odd in the photo, and as such a bit odd on the painting.  A little more work and I'll get better at them.  All in all I think for a first attempt, this turned out terrific.