casey wip

Casey Affleck.

First attempt at digital portraiture. I'd say he's coming along pretty decently, so far. Far from perfect, but then again, I'm far from done. Painting with a tablet is definitely a completely different beast than painting with a paintbrush.

bahh

won't be drawing/posting for a while. my schedule and my workload are both horrible.

haven't drawn anything decent (or at all, for that matter) for months now, which is sad, but academics come first so art's going on the back burner for now.

I wish I had more leisure time for drawing, reading, and practicing piano, but that is sooo not going to happen anytime soon...

anyway, thanks for following! I'll be back as soon as I can be.

-Shana

brushes

Playing with brushes to try to figure out Corel Painter...

The line art was traced from a photo reference of Kaya Scodelario because I was lazy and needed something to test brushes on.

I haven't gotten the hang of blending skin in a way that I'm happy with, but I have completely fallen in love with the colors available.

Smeared black ink

I've decided that I am going to MASTER drawing digitally! hahaha hopefully this temporary determination will get me somewhere.

School is starting in like TWO FREAKING WEEKS. which is not cool. because I still have to outline like 30 pages and make 30 flashcards and write a report.

ALSO, first person to guess who the person I drew above is (which I'm pretty sure will be hard to do...) will win a free drawingg! You pick a celebrity or send me a photo of someone, and I will draw them for you. Realistically. with my lovely, lovely graphite pencils. I would also like to thank you all for following, even though there aren't that many of you haha. It still means a lot. I promise to have some actual drawings that I take seriously up soon!

Oh and I switched emails for my blogger so that's why on my account it says I don't follow anyone. I am still following people, just not on blogger. I follow all the blog feeds, twitters, etc that I'm interested in on my google reader.

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So I kind of feel like gridding is impairing my ability to draw from life, something that I've never felt I've been necessarily good at anyways. Plus, measuring all the sides of references and then doing the same with my drawing paper is getting really annoying. I think I'd improve more if I stopped gridding for a while and focused more on drawing from sight. Plus I should probably pick up my tablet and actually learn how to use it since it costs way too much to just sit neglected under a pile of summerwork.

I'll probably go back to gridding eventually when I actually get tools to do details better. After all, it's basically foolproof if you're looking to draw a likeness of someone or something. But yeah! I need to work on life-drawing skills! Not that I have that much time because of summerwork anyway... ughh how is it almost August already....

I should probably do a self portrait one of these days.

Anyways, I've got a tumblr at which I reblog stuff I like here: http://shaynuh.tumblr.com/

Check it out if you want to.

-S.

Ben

Ben Moss

Spring Awakening Alum, Harvard class of 2013

This boy is ridiculously talented. Look him up on youtube and check out his original songs. So good. I'm a big fan.

I'm not going to lie. I really really really like how this turned out. This is the best reference I've ever used. Photo credit goes to Emily Xie. You can see the photo HERE and HERE.

It was actually pretty fun doing the freckles. Facial hair, not so much.

My ridiculously messy desk.

Jude

Jude Law.

Drawn for a friend's birthday even though it's now a month late.

aaaand an earthquake just occurred. lovely.

Random/I don't think anyone reads this anyways:

I performed a piano solo on Saturday at my school's Showcase event and it was not nearly as bad as I thought it was going to be. I think I've conquered my stage fright at last! Which is really a relief to me and should take a lot of stress away when I perform now. But for the first time actually playing on a stage with a tech crew and lights and everything in front of a couple hundred of people (in a floor length dress which I have certainly never done before), I didn't even feel my heart start to pound. Just went on, played my lovely Chopin etude which I still can't do justice after 15 months of learning/practicing, and left. I'm quite pleased that I now know that I can do that without getting physically nervous. It used to be that my pedal foot would shake uncontrollably (as would my hands and my heart would thump like crazy). But it's all gone now! (:

Seven more days of school = why am I still in school?

Lastly, I'm not sure how not posting for a couple of months equates two new followers, but thank you! I really do appreciate it. And it's not like i'll clog up your dashboards since I don't post very frequently anyways(:

Oh and I don't have a link to the ref. Sorry I keep on forgetting to save the URLs.

(He's in a towel, btw. That's what that giant blank space is)

THIS MARKS THE END OF BIRTHDAY GIFT ART. I'm now going to spend at least the next year being selfish and drawing the crapload of references I have queued up in my REFS folder on my desktop. Who's ready to see some major freckle fail?