New Landscape

Started a new painting today! I mostly focused on color, which I'm pretty happy with. I'm starting to understand why painters can get really excited about selective use of greys.

Composition-wise it could use some work, the original sketch had a building half-way up the hill-thing, but I couldn't get it to look right. When I have trouble with something in a painting, I can never figure out if it means I should try harder or back up and try to think of something else, so we'll see what I do after a night's sleep.

Storyboards

Did did some prep work the other day for a story idea I had. I don't think I'll do anything with it, but the process work is kind of cool.

Photo Studies

These are a few  studies I've done of photographs I pulled from a nature photography blog. All of them took about 20  minutes each to make, and my focus was on getting the colors right. If you look closely there aren't any textures or details used, and I restrained myself to a basic round brush, but the thumbnails of the images look fairly realistic.

(this is the only image that wasn't pulled from that photograhpy blog, my friend posted it on facebook and liked it)

So I just need to do 1234567876546856745 more and I'll start to develop a solid understanding of how color works.