Drawing from Photos

I saved a step in my process to demonstrate how I work. Because the wall is green and bouncing a lot of green light on the figure, I started this piece by painting everything green (on the right). Then I slowly built up the contrasting colors on the figure, and added some of the fleshy color to the green wall to unify the piece. That's what differentiates a painting from reality I think.

Copies of Adam Hughes Drawings

A bunch of copies of Adam Hughes drawings. The upper-right sketch of the woman with her hair up is my own sketch of his favorite Catwoman face model. He has a different model for Catwoman's body. The life and expressiveness of his characters is really made possible by the use of models.

Costa Rica: Study of Mountains and Clouds

A couple of hours spent outside watching the mountains and clouds. The clouds were big and puffy when I sat down like this.

This is about a half hour later. A little different.

I took a break and came back to the same painting. The puffy clouds turned into thin strips.

Copy of Portrait of a Gentlemen

This is something that we saw at the Legion of Honor. Upon looking at this now, I think it's a little overworked. Probably would have been better to spend about 20 minutes on a rough copy to study the color palette and composition, and then just paint something new from life. But check out my process below to see how I work.

Master Copy: Boris Vallejo 'Future Land'

Master copy of a Boris Vallejo painting from 1980 called Future Land. I worked on it over the course of 4 days. Each session lasted about 30-45 minutes before heading off to work. Fun. I could perfect this but I think I've got the colors and the big shapes down. Learning.

Snow White Drawing from TV

Working on big shapes and composition lately. Re-watch Snow White. Also reading Identity Crisis.

Film Studies in Colored Pencil

Just pause and draw. Each study is about 2x4 inches. Prismacolor pencils. Crimson Red, Process Red, Indigo, Canary Yellow, some Violet.

Scooter Girl

Sort of a fun pose copied from a photo and a little study on the right.