November 29th: It was super fun to finish. I hope your screens are as dark as mine!
November 9th: Getting rusty with the tablet. I still want to go back and tweak the lips, the eye, the sleeves… I wanted to integrate some texture, but none of the patterns were working.
October 13th: Slow and steady progress.
September 20th: My daily sketches has turned into weekly sketches, but even that is demanding.
References: Brother and Sister, Picture of Young Women Sleeping, Daughter and Son in bed with Father, Father and Son
I don’t like to code. I’ve always known it in the back of my head, even before I went into software engineering. However, programming was just something that came relatively easy to me. And since neither English, accounting, economics, science, nor math were attractive alternatives, I went into computer science. What I really wanted to go into was art. So I entertained the idea of graphic and web design, but my parents were adamant about my going to UofT. I lost count of how many times we’ve fought over where I’d get an undergraduate degree. Long story short, here I am today a few years later.
This past semester has been hard for a number of reasons. I realized that I’m not indifferent towards programming, but I hate it. My marks may say otherwise, but I know I suck at it. And the marks that I deserve are catching up to me. I spent the last few weeks wondering what the hell I was doing here.
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November 1st, 2008, 8:57 pm; Filed under Art, Art Gallery; (1 Comment)
Happy (belated) Halloween! I was going to finish this yesterday but got sidetracked with the night’s plan. (Went to a haunted theme park. It was short of amazing with the long lines and ‘meh’ haunted houses, but it was nonetheless a fun way to spend the night.)
The red makes me sick.
I was so attempted to make this Endou and/or give him an earring.
A bit of a walkthrough
- Begin with a sketch at 8.5×11in 300 dpi.
- Lay out the base colours and work out the tentative shadows and lights. I work at 25%. Round brush, opacity and size set to pen pressure.
- I always begin with the face because I intend it to be my focal point. If I don’t like how the face is coming along, I tend to drop the painting entirely. Zoom in and start with the eyes.
- Moving onto the nose.
- Then the lips.
- Once I’m satisfied with the face, I’ll begin to block out the details of the rest of the painting.
- The hair. I never got the hang of the speckle brush so I work with large brush strokes to mark lumps of hair. Once I get the form down, I use a finer brush to do individual strands. At this point I realize that Light’s hair is parted at the wrong side -_-”
- I decided to add a background a bit too late. Otherwise, painting the background to create the atmosphere would have been the second step.
- Finish off by playing with the colour levels.
November 9th: Getting rusty with the tablet. I still want to go back and tweak the lips, the eye, the sleeves… I wanted to integrate some texture, but none of the patterns were working. 
October 13th: Slow and steady progress.
September 20th: My daily sketches has turned into weekly sketches, but even that is demanding. 
