Watercolor Project #2

This was my second watercolor project, done in the style of Alex Pardee. I took two of his paintings and combined them into one. Fitting the two paintings together into something cohesive was somewhat of a challenge for me, but it was also fun. I started by sketching the outline, then painting the background. For the objects in the painting, I first did a wash of the object's color, added in darker values to shade it, and added highlights at the end. I did all of the inking at the end with microns.

Watercolor Sketchbook Set #2

This was my second sketchbook set practicing Alex Pardee's style. For these, i used a combination of inking and watercolor. I had never combined these two mediums before, so it was fun to experiment with this style. For both paintings, I sketched the drawing in pencil, then painted it, and added some detailing with micron pens and white watercolor.

Inking Sketchbook Set #2

This sketchbook set was to practice Alex Pardee's style. These were particularly challenging for me, because inking isn't one of my strong points and the line work in these drawings were very intricate. I sketched out all of the drawings first, then did outlines and finished with the more detailed line work. After this sketchbook set I feel a lot more confident in my inking abilities.

Sea Change

This was my first acrylic project this year, and is an original painting done in the style of Camilla D'errico. Above is my concept sketch, and below is the finished product. I used predominantly pinks and reds, and included machinery and animals like she often does in her paintings. This painting features a girl with caterpillars in a jar on her head, which travel through her and leave her mouth as butterflies. The concept behind this painting is in spite of the fact that we may have repellent things inside of us, we also possess the potential to let those things out as something more beautiful. Though I was overall pretty satisfied with the outcome of this painting, I could've added more shading to her face to create more depth and more highlights to her hair, as well as more shading to the wings of the butterflies.

Watercolor Sketchbook Set #1

This was my second sketchbook set for my Camilla D'errico imitation project, but unlike my previous set, these were done in watercolor. I really like her style, and since I am much more comfortable in this medium, I enjoyed doing this set a lot. For all three paintings, I first sketched the picture in pencil and then focused on the background before moving onto the figures. These could've been improved by adding more shading to the faces.

Inking Sketchbook Set #1

These inking practices were done in preparation for my project imitating the style of Camilla D'errico. Inking isn't something I'm strong in, so this was good practice for me. Something I need to work on is adding more line weight to my drawings. When I draw people, I tend to prefer more realistic styles so trying my hand at a manga style was something new for me. These sketchbooks were done completely in ink, with the exception of the centipede in the second sketchbook and the butterflies in the third, which were done in color pencil. 

John O'Callaghan

This was an acrylic sketchbook I did to practice portraiture. This is a monochromatic painting; I only used the color blue and tinted and shaded it for the dark and light values. This is one of the first acrylic practices I did and I really liked how smoothly the colors blended, despite the fact that it was a challenging project for me.

Watercolor Project #1

This is my first watercolor project. The style of this painting is surrealism, which is my favorite style. The main challenge in this painting was getting the shading on the girl's face right in order for it to look realistic.  I first focused on the brown, pink, and blue undertones in her skin, then smoothed everything out afterwards and added strong highlights. I worked from a reference painting for this, but I do not know who the original artist is.