Art Degree Progress - March (Patreon)

Hi everyone, sorry to be posting this at the 11th hour but I've been having some health challenges the last two weeks. But I do think I'm still making progress!

I'm still pretty proud of this months' monochrome homework! I think the ferns turned out really nicely, and I like the overall lighting and atmosphere. It's one of the first pieces I've made in a long time that I feel good about the colours of!

I only did a few of the still life studies this month as a transition between techniques - I stopped painting everything on one single layer on the canvas and started playing with layer modes. I wanted to bring this technique in because it's much closer to the way I will (probably) build my comic pages. 

I also switched topics and started experimenting much more with brushes!

There are fewer of these overall because as you can see (especially in the beginning) they were taking wayyyyy longer than the originally 15-20 minutes I was trying to do for these studies. It just didn't seem possible to get them down that fast!

Sometimes I had to do them in multiple sessions, and I was experimenting a lot with every piece.

As I kept going though I started getting into some brushes and techniques that were working, and coming up with results I was quite happy with at times :)

but it wasn't always a success, and many of them were taking way longer than I wanted for results I wasn't completely happy with :/

Here's the last one I could manage before I started to get quite sick. Really pushing the speed here, trying to "flatten" the technique a bit and go more with my gut. 

I did one major tutorial study this month also where I was trying to get that "ghibli style" and bring it into these Pacific North West paintings.

I'm going to give my brain a bit of a "break" (while I finish my taxes ugh) and reassess where I'm at! I am thinking of switching topics again. 

Thanks for reading!