Gesture practice

Landscape studies

Elf girl annual redraw

Wave studies

I was born in a beach town and have always had a love for the ocean. I found studying waves in these short timeline illustrations, each taking between 30minutes to max 4hours, gave me a lot of insight on efficient sketching techniques that help me achieve a more consistent shape language in my illustrations. They also helped me understand how to compose something beautiful based on limited information regarding shape and value. While not the only set of recent post realism studies that helped me grow this past year they might be my favorite.

Post realism food studies

I took a class on brainstorm last summer by Robert Stacy (sinix) called color and post realism it was a way for me to learn a better drawing process when creating digital illustrations and get comfortable in a digital suite. The first assignment stuck with me. It was drawing food to understand color, mostly one layer drawings, where we push the boundaries of color selections when drawing in a realistic style. Not only did these studies strengthen my love of drawing with vibrant colors but they taught me how to keep using the colors I love without washing out my values no matter what art style I'm working in.

The goal is making people hungry

Eggs are surpsurprisingly fun to draw

Not every little detail has to be there for our brains to know what something is

Classic burger (pepperjack cheese)

Burban sauce, french fry- cheeseburger

Deserts can get away with being softer and colder

Pulling out the pinks even when they're barely there

Gesture practice

Gestural figure from online life drawing session

I wanted to see if I could translate the pose into a different body type and add complicated fabrics as well.

Landscape studies

When I do these paintings my main focus is texture and value and edges. I try not to get too lost in the colors unless necessary. A good landscape is really mostly about lighting and the composition.

Elf girl annual redraw

I started a tradition of redrawing this image every other year each one is 1.5-2 years apart in creation this is a unique way for me to track how my drawing skills improve while also testing myself. The first 2 are watercolor. The 3rd and most recent image, also featured on the homepage
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