Hello From The Other Side

Been listening to 25 and couldn't help but think of that lyric for the title! Bit silly

Sooooo, this is my entry for Anna Steinbauer/depingo's Winter Art Challenge. 


I drew a background. An actual environment for my characters to sit in! I've been really terrible about learning to do that before, so I thought this would be the perfect opportunity to do it. Unfortunately, the whole thing wasn't so convenient in the end because between laptop breakage, a final year dissertation to write, and my intuos graphics tablet dying before the competition deadline, I've not really been able to do this as well as I would have liked. I ended up having to try to finish the piece with my laptop touchpad! On a similar note, I'm sorry you haven't seen much art from me recently. My degree finishes in April, and after I'll be doing a lot

This was my favourite study that I did for this work:  It's a Bouguereau master study. I was trying to capture the skin tones, and for once I think I got to grips with what colours go where and how to accurately see and select them. After I did this study, I went back to some other studies I had done, and I thought 'Oh, I can see now that I selected completely the wrong colour there, it should have been more [whatever]' - which goes to show that my eye for colour actually improved a bit! 

Other things to say.... is there anything else to say?

Good luck to the other entrants! I've already spotted the work of 2tall4yall and RisingAngelss and they look like such strong entries and great studying!