Finished portrait

I’ve finished my portrait challenge. whew. And, while I can’t say it’s perfect, I learned alot, I achieved a fair likeness of my subject, and overall she looks human. I don’t think I’ll be picking up a whole lot of commissions based on it, but that’s okay by me!

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BCF 17

This is a blind contour drawing of my dog, Chico, curled up on the sofa taking a nap. For those who don’t know, blind contour drawing is drawing while looking at your subject, but not at your paper – there are some far more experienced and capable than I at it – [...]

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Gone dotty…

I did this one for the WDE challenge for LAST weekend, but it took forever to get it done…what was I thinking with all those dots?? I had done a little sketch of my foot a week ago, or so, and had fun with the stippling, so thought I’d continue – [...]

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EDMWC #5 – Draw Your Bed

I’m still playing catch-up with the weekly challenges on Everyday Matters. The Thanksgiving week thing kind of threw a wrench in my plans to do one a day, but we’ll start afresh here on Monday!! Here is challenge #5 – draw your bed. I decided to do this one next because, after being away for [...]

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EDM Weekly Challenge #23 – My left foot

Here’s my next installment, day two of the catch-up process. Drew this while lying in bed watching the Matrix…whichever the second one is – I can’t remember the name… Just a simple drawing – micron pen – stippling and some line shading, but I’m fairly pleased with the simplicity of line.
Update – 12/27/2005 – I [...]

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EDM Weekly Challenge #1 – Backtracking…

So, I am going through the Everyday Matters group list of weekly challenges – thought I’d try to do one a day on a very small scale and see if I could “catch up” I actually started with the current week (see below) but this is week #1 – [...]

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EDMWC #41 – Landmark of your City

This is a 5 minute sketch in ink and acrylic ink of Knoxville’s Sunsphere – the only landmark I could think of in this town! The color is, as usual for me, way too much – but that’s how I like it…the actual sunsphere is more golden in tone. And [...]

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I’m Losing It!

Well, after layer 947, I’ve lost most of my really dark darks, and really light lights. I did a grayscale version so I could check it – and I was right! Time to start adding in some darks – particulary on the left side of her face (viewer right) and around [...]

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I’m Losing It!

Well, after layer 947, I’ve lost most of my really dark darks, and really light lights. I did a grayscale version so I could check it – and I was right! Time to start adding in some darks – particulary on the left side of her face (viewer right) and around [...]

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I’m Losing It!

Well, after layer 947, I’ve lost most of my really dark darks, and really light lights. I did a grayscale version so I could check it – and I was right! Time to start adding in some darks – particulary on the left side of her face (viewer right) and around [...]

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