"We won't forget to cross our T's and dot our .... lower case J's"

The last of the female eyes from a picture with both male/female. These came out quicker. It's funny, when I look in the mirror I look at my eyes more critically - noticing things I haven't paid much attention to before.

I wanted to take a break from eyes and did a face. I'm going to shy away from color for awhile and practice value. The eyes are much better than the two images below. And up until this, I completely forgot about using a color palette! I've just been using different opacities of black and white. For this, I used three greys, also.

A portrait of Daniela Cosio. It was here that I decided to work on eyes more. I was using a 1 or 2 pixel brush to color the iris smh. Took freaking forever as I kept trying different color combinations trying to get it right. The lips don't hover like the one below, which is something else I made sure to spruce up. Also, there is a marked improvement in the hair texture/appearance.

My first color portrait. I had fun blending the skin, but the lips, eyes, brows and hair gave me a bit of trouble. It was after this that I studied other artists' works on Deviant Art and tried to figure out how to simulate some of the works. This was based off a Liu Wen sketch I did awhile ago in pencil. I learned a lesson about having clean sketch lines.

Eye Came, Eye Saw ...

I did four male eyes and messed around with different brush settings for each. Two birds and all that. As usual, eyelashes are still a birch.

I sketched larger with the women's eyes. I took up the whole canvas , then re-sized and merged the layers. It's better to draw large, I've been told.

Eye, Eye Captain

Anatomy4Sculptors (or sculpture?) have resource images I copied from. After the Liu Wen and Daniela Cosio portraits I figured I could use the practice - we can always use some "practice".

Starting off with a circle for the iris/pupil and drawing guide lines (I think the compound word doesn't apply to this usage?) is an interesting technique for laying out the sketch. I have trouble with the width sometimes, but I think the eye is three iris' wide.

The 'orange bandana'. New Masters Academy has a 3D eye of the 'David'. I'll sketch different angles - maybe under different lighting conditions, also.

Heading Back to the Locker Room

    A few minutes left before halftime. Timeout. This play will set the tone for how the rest of the game will go. What must be done to win the 2013 season? The platform used to ask this question is also part of the answer.


"An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory."
    - Ralph Waldo Emerson (possibly)