We started on a new painting this week. Again, it'll be for only two sessions although it could be extended to three if there need to be. Based on how far everyone has progressed though, we'll probably be ending next meeting.
For the line drawing I went with charcoal. I feel like it's easier for me to render and get more "accurate" proportions with it as opposed to a pencil. I used a leadholder for the last one though.. I think if I do a bit more rendering, I could probably skip having to do an underpainting.
I originally wanted to paint this mannequin instead of the skull but the instructor insisted that I do this instead. I was a bit disappointed initially but I'm glad that I ended up with this one. It's pretty fun painting the skull. I hope to make this better than the last one. It feels weird having an easier time painting with colors instead of my usual method(perhaps having taken two color theory classes have somewhat helped?), which involves laying all the values down in grayscale and then just going over it. I've only done that digitally though, and I'm sure that had I done that in oils I wouldn't have been able to get this far.
Now that I've looked through the pictures again, the photos do the painting too much justice..
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