Lemon & Orange

An orange I drew. It's alright. The shadows were giving me trouble.

A lemon I drew with pastels. I'm getting better at this, I swear. I drew this before the orange/lemon still life. I should probably spend more time each week practicing.

I've also found that drawing from pictures is easier than drawing from life. Go figure. Again, I probably just need to practice.

Art 4B - Still Life

Pastel still life of 2 lemons and an orange I made for my drawing class.

Art 4B lesson revision

These look much better than the first attempt, I think.

I think I might crop the images a bit, but I'm satisfied with the shading and gradations that I got.

Mushrooms and pears

These are recent drawings made for my drawing class. We're using pastels, and these were done on Strathmore 500 Velvet Gray paper.

Pears, still life

Mushrooms, still life

Portrait of the Wasp as a Young Man - WIP

I'm really enjoying painting bugs, if you can't tell. This is my 5th project for my Art 86 class. I'm just having a bit of fun with this one. Of course, I usually try to have a bit of fun with the art I'm making. If it's not enjoyable, why would I do it?

This is still a work in progress, I've got a lot of rendering and fiddling left to do. Mere details, really.

Update: March 14, 2011
I finished it ages ago and forgot to post about it. Silly me.

Insects

These are some large insects I drew for Art 86. I used the Airbrush variants in Corel Painter and reference photos gleaned from the internet.

Anatomy project, WIP

I can't seem to stop posting about projects I'm working on. This is the last post today, I promise. This is my third project for Art 86, nearly done.