Finished

Does anyone else ever have completely bipolar relationships with their paintings? While working on this one, I would look at it one day and hate it and then love it another day. Anyway, I am finally okay with it. There are still things that bug me but I'm calling it done.

Worth it?

I have struggled with this painting ever since the drawing stage, and as you can tell, I am still struggling with drawing issues, so I am wondering if it is even worth pursuing at this point. I'll tell you my ideas for what it is supposed to be when it is finished. I planned to paint the hair realistically, then the black part will have stars (the night sky) and the colored squares will continue behind the circle in the top right hand corner and the sky circle would have some type of border. The part I can't stand about it right now is her arm and hand. Is it fixable? It is difficult to fix things at this point in my process since the sky background is collage, so if any of the edges have to change, I have to paint in the sky.

composition

i'm working on an environment concept piece that i really want to test my illustration chops on. the idea is somekind of decades old abandoned supertanker stranded in the desert that some nomads take up base inside. there's just this section that's exposed, with the bulk of it buried in the sand dunes, creating a dark underground space inside. this would be the exterior establishing shot. 

i came up with these composition mock-ups and would like to hear people's thoughts on which and why is most engaging. 

*also, who's in charge of the monster image in the blog header? can it be shrunk down to a quarter size or something so that we don't have scroll past it?

Sentinels

A few 8 x 10.  A few of you have already seen them.  Sticking with the burnt sienna, ultra blue, and yellow ochre.  I need a few embellishments to make them pop - texture etc.  Geoff, I'd love to see a paint over.