Sitting WIP2

After 5 hours.

Sitting WIP1

After 2 hours of work.. I am becoming more efficient. mixing colors is always boom or bust, though. I need to sit down and just mix, for many hours, to get used to the color combinations.
I need a title for this one, also.

incompleteness? (a Gondal poem.)

Alone I sat
Emily Jane Brontë
Alone I sat; the summer day
Had died in smiling light away;
I saw it die, I watched it fade
From misty hill and breezeless glade;
And thoughts in my soul were gushing,
And my heart bowed beneath their power;
And tears within my eyes were rushing
Because I could not speak the feeling,
The solemn joy around me [...]

Thick As Thieves WIP3

Drastic changes have been made.

Details (messy brushwork):

Only a little left to do. From the photograph at the top, it looks basically finished.
As a portrait, I really like it. But as a piece, I think I have to call this one a failure. I couldn’t follow through with my original concept and idea. (Too hard.)

Thick As Thieves WIP2

Progress. I cannot do two figures (the second is not even close to being finished). I cannot draw hands. A lot of frustration. That sums up my feelings.
So I stuck it into Photoshop and this is more like what I want it to be:

Thick As Thieves WIP1

The best picture I could get, in the late afternoon. This is only a section (the only complete section). My camera flash made some very shiny spots.
The shirt will not be orange for very long. I will probably end up lightening the background. I don’t want the figures to pop out that much.

Braced (finished)

Braced. Graphite on paper, 7.5″ x 22.5″.
Here’s what I did to fix up in Photoshop CS (click for larger images):

First, I took a photo of it on my desk.

Then, I cropped it.

Desaturated and leveled a little.
After fixing up the value and the tone, I ended up with the image at the top of this entry.
Here’s [...]