"Facebook" Profile Self Portraits

I'm really glad I don't have a facebook. In all honesty I'm fine with these self portraits, they were a real spirit lifter after the digital art assignment. Watercolor and line are are getting warmer and warmer. Ignore the angst in the last one, it was only the product of boredom. I'm still not satisfied with my creative use of color but I feel like I'm trying to step out of that box. 

When life gives you lemons..

This is my ode to digital lemons and my attempt at making lemonade. Drawing digital art on a wacom tablet felt like having suffered a serious brain injury and attempting to re-learn how to walk. I've never felt such a disconnect between my hands, eyes and mind. But it's certainly still art because I found a way to express how this process made me feel. This was so painful just making lemonade wasn't good enough so I had to make something a little stronger out of these lemons.

Go Big or Go Home

This is Delphi my 20x30 line art and watercolor landscape. I had a little bit of trouble but I feel like I'm getting more control over the water color. I'm still not confident enough to abandon line art to support the water color, but Rusty doesn't care. I will eventually have to paint line instead of pen and ink. I am happy with this painting. Delphi is an important place to me so I was careful when I was producing this to make sure it was something that reflected a place thats cared about. Learning how to take a picture of it and adjust it on photoshop was... painful. I asked Rusty for private lessons.

Memoriam

This is a water color and line art portrait drawn from memory. I drew my grandfather because of some of his memorable features. He has a prominent nose and ears, always wore a hat and plaid shirts. The hat said "lame and lazy club" on it but I opted to not add text on this one. His eyes are wider than I think they actually were but it's my nature to accentuate eyes more than they're supposed to be realistically. I attempted to draw the first couple of sketches as realistically as I could, this was not successful. The mind does remember things in that way. This was the last sketch I tried, much more loose and gestural. It allowed me to be less tight when I went back to add water color and I like the color being loose and as Rusty would say "water color being water color." If I could keep my water color loose and stress free and combined it with my own more precise line art, then I think I'd had a style that I really enjoy working with.