Forest Finals

Phew! All done. These sadly printed super dark despite me messing with the brightness/contrast slightly obsessively…whatcha gonna do.

Ominous Forest Color Comps

Three quick color comps of my second forest.

Magical Forest Color Comps

Three quick color comps of my first forest.

Forest Scenes

B/W comps for our final– two contrasting forest scenes inspired by Little Red Riding Hood.

Shrub sketches

Some shrubs I've neglected to upload for a while, whoops.

Speed paints 13&14

Speed paints of my forest reference using only the lasso tool.

Speed paints 11&12

Speed paints of forests, using only 50 brushstrokes. Not entirely sure how closely I followed that stipulation.

Tree Sketches pt 3

I stand by my assessment that being left handed makes me group pictures weirdly in sketchbooks. Yup.

Speed paints 9&10

Speed paints based on Frederic Church paintings.

Speed paints 7&8

Speed paints of Ivan Shishkin paintings. And I thought the Miyazaki ones were cruel…I just now realized I had cut off a chunk of the bear painting while working, hence some missing trees. Ah well.

Tree sketches pt 2

More tree sketches. Maybe I'm making excuses for myself, but I feel like being left handed kinda messes me up when I draw in my sketchbook. I always start at the farthest edge on the right, hence the first couple trees kinda being cut off.

Persimmon tree studies

Miyazaki speed paints

Speed paints based on background paintings from Spirited Away and The Secret World of Arrietty. 

Tree sketches

Even more trees!!! A mix of pencil, marker and digital.

Tree memory paints

Trees sketched from observation and colored at home from notes/memory. I had to take screengrabs of these because saving it as a jpeg resulted in very wonky looking colors. Not sure why!

Pine cone color

Tree speed paints

Our assignment was to go to Tower Hall and do some tree speed paints– thanks to the changing light and feeling clumsy painting outside with my computer, I ended up finishing these at home (with photo reference, whoops).

Speed paints 5&6

Speed paints of Arthur Mathews paintings.

Pine cone

Rendered in graphite– this scan isn't very flattering, I may try again.

Speed paints 3&4

Speed paints 1&2

Our first assigned one hour speed paints– both studies of Edgar Payne paintings.

Stain landscapes

Our first homework assignment– create two forest scenes from 10 abstract stain thumbnails.