Wanted to get a little further, but somebody plopped a pesky day job smack in the middle of my day. Anyway, after about an hour of blending different shades of gray, the face is starting to come into focus.

So I thought I’d make a more serious attempt at a painting, and actually spend a few days on it. It’s fun to do things like the Dorothy Lamour painting, where I just eyeball everything (no jokes, please), but it’s no fun to do a comparison afterward and realize how out of whack some of my proportions are.

So for this one, I’ve gone back to the old standby, the grid, and carefully sketched Bob to match the photo exactly. For the next phase, painting, I’ll turn off the grid and go nuts. I figure eyeballing the tone and detail will be enough to take a boring sketch and imbue it with some life.

My mom has always said allergy season makes me cranky. Well, it’s allergy season, and boy howdy!

I was doing some pointless experimenting with paper textures in Photoshop when I realized, hey, maybe I ought to do some actual drawing practice. My art class is on hiatus, so I’d been slacking/devolving. A few hours later, and here’s a sloppy Dorothy Lamour!