H is for... hardly any time :P

ok so... it has been crazy these last couple of days. Not crazy interesting; just crazy crazy. 

I actually had 'F' all ready to go on Saturday- and then never sat down to post it.  So I'm going to play catch up; and adjust my blogging challenge. 

My original challenge was to do a quick 30 minute speed paint- to improve my digital painting.  Which is something I certainly need work on.  (as I've pointed out like every day this challenge)  But because of my life being what it is I'm going to just adjust it to 30 minute 'art'.  Usually that'll mean a drawing; because I love drawing and want to do more of it. 

Here is my catch up:

F for fish.
I actually intended to paint this... but then I just started playing with digital charcoal brushes...

G is for Girl. 
This was a drawing I did the other day and was way frustrated by it; so I just sort of gave up after getting the lines down.










and H?  well I'm cheating on this one. I'm going to share some images from my project that it currently consuming 80% of my time.  would be 100% but I have 3 kids and I'm attempting to be at least an OK mom while I finish this up.

so H is for... outHouse....  yea.. anyway...
here ya go:

If you are a uber nerd.. or even just a small one; you might think this is cool  I'm creating 3d artwork to be used in table top RPGs such as Dungeons and Dragons.  They will be little paper models to add atmosphere to the game.  Some of them come apart in layers and you can actually play in the terrain as well.
It is a crazy project.  I cannot wait until it is done.

Alicia Hawks

G is for Goldilocks

This is a catch up post; and this is some old art that I'm sharing.

This was a mock cover for a non existent children's book.  We were assigned a classic fairy tale; and then had to put our own spin on it.  So this is what I did.

F is for figure drawing (artistic nudes)

this post does contain artistic nudes...

This is a bit of a photo dump; but here are a few of my figure drawings over the years.  They were all drawing at different times- so the level of skill is a little all over the place; but I've liked these enough to keep them around.

E is for eye!

(For the benefit of first timers: For this years challenge I've given myself a personal improvement project of doing a 30 minute digital 'speed' paint each day.  My goal is 2 fold: to become a faster digital painter and to figure out a way to paint that doesn't look digital.  I can paint digitally; and pretty well; but it has the LOOK of a digital painting, so I'm trying to improve on that.).

here is a 30 minute 'painting' of an eye. 

I tried kind of a digital alla prima approach with this one. I think if I were to paint for longer than 30 minutes I could really make this look nice.  As it is; it looks ok.  The eye kept drifting to the 'CBS eye' look... but I tried to keep it from doing that. 

anyway.  This was fun; and I don't totally hate today's speed painting. 

I have decided that next year I'm going to paint something I'm good at for this challenge rather than do a self improvement challenge lol.  it is a little embarrassing to post these fast practice pieces.  BUT I think it is worth doing and It is forcing me to try new things; so there is that.
If I were to spend more time on it I'd fix the eye shape a bit, add some more dark tones; it is very bright right now; and refine some of the edges.  All things to keep in mind for tomorrow.

Anything you think would be a cool subject to paint tomorrow?  Leave your F suggestions in the comments.  OR if you have an idea for another letter- you can suggest those as well.

Alicia

D is for Duck, C is for Cherry

For the benefit of first timers: For this years challenge I've given myself a personal improvement project of doing a 30 minute digital 'speed' paint each day.  My goal is 2 fold: to become a faster digital painter and to figure out a way to paint that doesn't look digital.  I can paint digitally; and pretty well; but it has the LOOK of a digital painting, so I'm trying to improve on that.

Yesterday was a day where I spent the entire day working on a project for a gallery show I'll have this summer.  So today I split the difference and spent 15-20 minutes on each letter.
I painted a cherry and a duck.  And I  hate both of them.
I've been trying a more 'painterly' approach; and it is NOT working for me.  My best post in the last 4 days has easily been my first; but that is because I wasn't painting; just drawing.  I hate how the digital paintings I'm producing look like they were painted by a much less experience artist.  I have to keep reminding myself you have to start somewhere.

Anyway... here they are.

Any suggestions for E?

 so... yea...
Alicia

B is for Beacon

 I'm not thrilled with tonight's entry... I actually tried painting instead of doing a quick drawing.  I'm MUCH better at drawing then painting... and that shows... eeek.

Once again- I'm doing all of the art this month digitally; because that is what I need to improve.  I used the app Procreate on the iPad pro. 

I totally hate this one and probably won't promote it to much... guess you have to start somewhere? 

I'm trying to find a good way to paint digitally.  I can paint digitally and quite well; but it has the obvious thumbprint of being a digital drawing/painting.  Despite my attempts to attack this differently and use a variety of brushes; this one still looks very... digital. 

So this is what I came up with today... I think I need to do some more research...

Well tomorrow is the letter C! so if you have an idea throw it in the comments below; I'd be happy to draw a request.  Keep in mind these will be 30 minute speed paintings; so they will not be very polished (at least not at first)

Thanks for visiting!
Alicia

A is for...Aardvark

I had such plans for this challenge!! However life is what it is and I never was able to sit down and figure out a subject for my whole blog. 
And so; because of the fact that things are getting CRAZIER for me and not easier I'm going with a pretty simple challenge this year:
Increase my drawing/painting speed.  I figure if I'm going to do this challenge I might as well throw in some self improvement for good measure, right? :D
SO for each day- I'm just going to pick a random noun that starts with the letter of the day and do a 30 minute 'speed painting/drawing' of it. 
Today I did not spend 30 minutes, I only spent about 15 minutes on today's drawing.  I would spend more time BUT I've had another painting project that has taken priority; so this is what we get today.

If you have an idea for something for me to draw that starts with B leave it in the comments!! I look forward to visiting all of your blogs and seeing your themes in action!

Alicia Hawks