Catching Up: Part 2.

Day 32:

Today I have spent a lot of time fixing photos.

I've been cropping, tweaking perspective, adjusting color balances, levels, and saturation, painting out random tiny artifacts, and much, much more. And after all of that, I did this:

This is an early stage of a painting. It was originally intended to be an acrylic painting, but after adding a quick layer of color to the cloak I'm considering switching it to a digital painting... We'll see how it goes I guess.

Day 31:

Yesterday I drew the sketch that was the beginning of the Red Riding Hood image:

By the end of the evening it looked like this:

Day 30:

I drew some thumbnail storyboard sketches.

The heart image series is separate from the other images. I wasn't really going for full-on storyboarding here: I just wanted to get a few images that I hope to properly storyboard later out of my head for now before I bury them with other ideas and forget what they looked like. There are still more images related to this story that I need to get down, but this is all that I've gotten to for now. The first two images are crossed out because I simply wasn't pleased with how they turned out.

Day 29:

This day I just spent time drawing grids on paper to have a place to work on my storyboard thumbnail sketches.

Day 28:

Some work in my Cut-Up Sketchbook:

Day 27:

More Cut-Up Sketchbook:

Day 26:

Even more Cut-Up Sketchbook:

Day 25:

The day that began this particular series of Cut-Up Sketchbook doodling:

Day 24:

Switching gears now to painting:

It's not much to look at - just the early stages of a painted project. I bought the wooden tree with the black outlines on it, but I'm going to paint it my own way. It'll still be owls and hearts in a tree, but it should end up fairly different from the original design.

Day 23:

This was quite a long day of art as I painted mailboxes for my niece and nephew for Valentine's Day.