Bird painting while failing to sleep on a work night

I should be sleeping, sketching a tiny bird instead. Insomnia reaps tiny flying things.

Plein Air From Imagination (mostly)

This took a lot more faffing than I had first first hope with lots of leaf compositions and all sorts.  

Some Product Drawings (Draw Through!)

I am bouncing around a few different things until my mentorship (see bellow post). One of things I have been bouncing to is Matt Kohr's wonderful Observation to Imagination training.

I really recommend it and it will take some serious time to go through everything. This is part one of many many many.

Anything labled "L" was from life ie, a physical object in front of me and anything labled "P" was from a photoref although those were generally drawn with at a different angle than in the photo. 

Took bloodey ages!

Awesome news!

Over October I am going to Mentored by the amazing Kalen Chock and Anthony Jones in their Environment Design classes!

Cant wait!! its going to be awesome! :D

I will blog my way through the experience and let everyone know how it goes!

Glen Keane Love

Spent a day studying Glen Keane. Cheers me up when times are down. Such an amazing guy. Check out his latest work, a short animation (soon to be an interactive animation!) called Duet. Its really beautiful.

My studies:

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Assortment of Studies after the Masters such as Frazetta, Vilppu, etc

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Virtual En Plein Air work (environments from photoref or random google street views) There is also my work from Saddy Safadi's incredible free tutorial series found here: Shaddy Playlist

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Studies after the late great Norman J Schureman

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Some pages of me working through Jack Ham's superb book on Drawing Scenery

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Sketchbook pages of idle sleepless doodling.

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Random Figure Drawing Training