Figure Study

The art studio I go to for my weekly fix of figure drawing has been closed for the last couple of weeks, so I warmed up this morning with a 50 minute digital figure study. Normally when I figure draw I just use a pencil and focus on shape and value without taking color into account, so it was nice  to work in color for once.

You can tell that I spent most of my time on the upper torso and arms, I was really drawn in by all of the shadows and highlights the back and arm muscles were forming,

Mars

Just started another painting, trying to do a cool shot of the surface of mars. I skipped the sketching stage and went straight in by blocking in the big shapes with simple values, then throwing on the color and texture. I think the piece still has a ways to go (conceptually and finish-wise), but once it's done I think I'll have something worth selling as a print.