"Prom"

Have not had much time to work on this beauty...but here's the latest:

These were done for Bob Kato's class at Disney Consumer Products yesterday. The top two were five minutes, yes, five minutes, so the challenge was trying to capture the gesture and basic silohuette in that time. The bottom right two were the last ones~10 minutes a figure and a little more time to breathe. Check out the last one~this time i used a Burnt Umber for the ground, and in the figure, some Hooker's green, Cad red light, yellow ochre with the dominate base of Ivory black and Titanium white. I managed to get a step of gradations of values in warms and cools, a method taught by Sean Cheetham, a few months ago. This is the direction I am heading and this figure is the most successful. The warm and cool relationships and the brushwork is finally coming together! I did not get the model's name, he is half vietnamese and causcausian, does stunts with fire, looks 21, but is 38! He gave us everything, outstanding silohuettes, acting, intensity, amazing physique and had a great sense of humor!

Yeah, it's been a while. Had a slew of freelance, exhausted. Still playing in Black and White, having a ball. Poses are about 10 minutes long on board, acrylic.

Most of these were 5 mins and 10. This one was 5 mins, acrylic on board

S'more figure. The black and whites were done yesterday; the model was Adair. Some color figure done a few weeks ago of the amazing Stacy Walker. What presence on stage! And a small portrait of the charismatic Mr. Quantae Love; I will get to some really nice ones of you in the future, Mr. Quantae! You are simply one of the best figure models in the industry! And a big thanks for Mr. Ron V for guiding me in all this.

These have been done in a figure drawing class and Bob Kato's class at Disney Consumer Products. And yes, they were painted the back of a crescent board~I hate waste..They were about 5-10 minute poses in acrylic. I am still having trouble with my warms and cools so that is why I will be working in black and white for awhile. I am in a large learning curve with both digital techniques and traditional and infact, feel like the girl in Matrix when she plugs into a program to learn to fly helicopters; I come home wiped and overwhelmed almost everyday!