Kelsey’s 100 Day Challenge: Foundations

[Kelsey Wood (Bezaire)]

Day 79:

More skull time!

[Kelsey Wood (Bezaire)]

Day 80:

Some practice drawing on a tablet. It involved a bit of blending, textures and practice with layers. I lost the highlights when I added texture, so that’s something to do differently in the future.

[Kelsey Wood (Bezaire)]

Day 81:

Spent all day doing meetings and lectures so my brain couldn’t handle working from yet another lecture. So I drew a ghost bat to celebrate the season.

I have a hard time with textures and complicated fabrics (bat wings). Didn’t realise it was going to be such a challenging thing to do! Reference photo by S J Bennett on Flickr.

[Raven Kushner]

I love that bat. How cool! 🙂

[Kelsey Wood (Bezaire)]

Hi Raven,

Thanks! It was a lot of fun.

 

Day 82 & 83:

Been working on this leaf in bits and pieces today and yesterday. I am not sure how to make it look like light shining through the leaf versus light bouncing off.

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Day 84:

A bit more skull work today. Should be done with this tutorial tomorrow.

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Day 85:

I finished this skull today.

[erikdennes]

Nice work!  Looks great.

[Kelsey Wood (Bezaire)]

Thanks Erik!

 

Day 86:

First digital figure sketch! About 40 minutes, though I realise I didn’t include the stand he’s leaning on. Whoops.

Haven’t quite figured out layers and deciding on colours, brushes, etc. Too many options!

[Kelsey Wood (Bezaire)]

Day 87:

Short session today. Started drawing an oyster shell I kept from a dinner a while back. It’ll be largely greyscale so I can focus on line and shadow.

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Day 88:

Tried an exercise that was recommended but hadn’t really practiced: drawing subjects while in motion. I went with simpler forms – Muppets! This was good for making me put down lines quickly. No pausing or rewinding. I was done when the scene changed.

[Kelsey Wood (Bezaire)]

Day 89:

Started the watercolour for the oyster. It looks like a mess but it will (hopefully) look a lot better over the next couple days.

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Day 90:

It’s starting to come together. I’ll need to figure out how to separate shadows from saturation (or not?).

[Kelsey Wood (Bezaire)]

Day 91:

Done? Might strengthen the ink outline a bit, and need to fix that mistake in the shadows (accidentally touched it while wet). I tried to make sure you could still get the gist of shadows on the shell. Hope that came across.

 

[Mirian Lindgren]

Nice work 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

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