New Painting! : "Alice" (Patreon)

Since you all voted that you do enjoy seeing my work early, here is my latest painting: Alice!

This is cool, I feel more like an artist now that I have exclusive viewers lol. To make it even more special, the reference and previous version will not be shared at all on my other socials :)

This was a painting that I started Mid-Last. year and it looked like the last slide you can see. I decided to come back to it as part of this series where I am studying color through portraits (like my last painting) and also reworking the style I somehow decided looked good last year...idk what came over me. I was studying alot of Samdoesart's style (still am) but for some reason my drawing skills suffered for it. 

I think at the end of the day... it was because I was not used to putting so much emphasis on the painting/coloring process. That probably took my brain away from focusing on aesthetics, or simply showed that I need more practice when I think of appeal through color/shapes instead of lines. Moving forward, I plan to be more confident in my drawing/value/shading approach and figure out colors later - Similar to how Eliza Ivanova does many of her digital pieces. I think that it was good to do these studies and challenge myself with color and minimal drawing, but its best to just go back to whats ME, and feels comfortable. That results in the best artwork. 

The final art files and narrated slow time-lapse video are coming later at the end of the month!