Another Big one

20x30, I didn't like this one too much, on a personal note. I'm tired of the subject matter. But other than that relatively no problems. I think I just need to, as my friend John Hitzel says "chase the muse." I don't know why but unless assigned it's hard for me to just draw a random animal or landscape without reason. But I need to stop being hard on myself, I need to just create to be creating. Regardless, this is what I have for this free subject assignment. I'm looking forward to the random montage due soon. 

This took way too long.

For what these look like they shouldn't have taken as long as they did. Let's just say I had to warm up and loosen up a lot first. I opted out of using black line art because the first round wasn't terribly successful and I think worrying about one element at a time was the right choice. Another good choice was my subject matter, the simplest things I could think ok. Except the dragon fruit, it's the one you were going to ask "what's that?" about. Albert asked me to draw it. I'm not even comfortable calling these drawings. 

Kiss it, make it better

I thought doing this without pen and ink would be hard but I chose an object that had a lot of line work in so that I would be sure to push myself into learning lines with the water medium. I think I was successful, next I need to learn how to work the water color into very smooth gradation. But over all I'm pleased, other than the amount of time it took, which I don't mind dedicating, it wasn't much of a pain.

And a special thanks to Ashley and Shelby, who this title is dedicated to. Thank you for making my inability to use a computer... better.