Damn you Mass Effect 2!

I'd LIKE to blame yesterdays painting failure on the sirens call that is Mass Effect 2 but I don't think that is a good enough excuse. I don't know if its possible or worth going back to it to fix it. Maybe one day I'll take a study seriously and do a long one. The cool thing about short studies is if you screw it up you can tell yourself "ah its good for just a few hours" you can't do that with a +15 hour study. At least yesterdays zoo sketches were ok. Work time about 2.5-3 hours.

yup more frazetta

Here is yesterdays painting of the day and the touch up of the one previous. Work time was about half the length of the movie Dusk till Dawn for the Conan. Still a cool flick.

Frazetta again

Yesterday's painting of the day was another Frazetta. I think I bite off more than I could chew and I don't know if I'll go further with it. About 4 hours work time.

Zoo pictures

I got some zoo sketches in today but I think the pictures I got of the meerkats and pygmy hippo were better.

Frazetta study

Day 3 of the return of "1 painting a day" was better that day 2. I just jumped in with no pencil and did the lay-in with transparent brown. The proportions are off but that's expected. Total time it took me was maybe 4.5-5 hours with plenty of breaks to watch Gentlemen Broncos on Netflix. Review: Its not as good as Napoleon Dynamite but it still had some laughs here and there. It certainly wasn't no Black Dynamite. Odd, I just realized that some of my most favorite comedies involve bowling, Mel Brooks, and the word dynamite in its title. hmmm.

Bonus painting of the day: 20 minutes total time.

Bad Start

If this is the start of my return to the "1 painting a day" I don't think its going to last. Maybe my 5th attempt at baking cookies while painting this distracted me. She's all misshaped and wonky. Even the nudity is sorta disturbing to me for some reason. She has since been scrubbed and sent to painting Valhalla and yes I was baking. I could have said I was doing something less effeminate like practicing Kung Fu or working on a GTO but....meh.....cookies. And they aren't half bad either.

What a lovely couch

Here is last nights "study". I think I might try the 1 painting a day thing again. No doubt I'll slack off again but its worth a try. She took me a little over 3 hours. I think I need to fix the head and get some decent wallpaper up.