I Hate My Job

Unfortunately, my job keeps me so busy that I hardly have any time to do any good studies or anything. It seems as though on all of my days off, other restaurants schedule me for crazy shifts, and then I have to pick up other people's shifts that have called off. Overall, I really don't have much time, and it's frustrating. Anyhow, here are my new pair of shoes. Off to work I go.

Waking Up Early

I woke up at 7:30 am today, and I plan to keep this schedule up in hopes of being more productive. Today I painted two studies (one value study, one color study) and a guy from imagination (though his body/shirt frustrates me). And in the color study, yes I know that her hands are a tad small.

Life of Still

Here's another short still life. About 1.5 hours. I made a schedule of what kinds of work I want to do on certain days of the week, so I should have at least three still life pieces up every week. I've been drawing plenty of heads from Loomis, but they're in my sketchbook. I may try to do some Loomis stuff in Photoshop soon so I can upload it.

The Old Man

Tonight's study is a master copy of an oil painting of an old man. I can't remember the artist's name unfortunately. I now have three days off from work, so hopefully I'll be able to upload two things a day during those days. It's the time I'll be able to work on an imaginative piece and practice perspective.

Tomato Tamata

Here's another two-hour still life study. Perspective seems to be giving me the most difficulty right now, so on my days off of work, I'm going to work on perspective. On days that I don't upload stuff, it probably just means that all of my studies are traditional, and I don't have a scanner to upload them with.

Flesh Study

Tonight I decided to do a flesh study.  I spent about two hours and fifteen minutes on it.  I learned a little bit about flesh, but it's not rendered out super detailed or anything.  Now, I need sleep.  Working in an Italian restaurant all day then painting after work gets exhausting.

Another Pumpkin

Here's a two-hour still life.  I'm not that fond of it, but it's just one more bad painting out of the way on my path towards improvement.  I'd like to replace the pumpkin with an apple next time, and I'm going to keep working on glass and metal as well.