Flower Girl

Nonstop work as usual. As you guys know (or not), I've been doing something I call survival sketches which is keeping the mind and hand active in creating innovating artwork that may develop further into future concept designs and creations. Or the shorter term:

I drew to stay awake.

I figured I hadn't painted a portrait in a long while, nor am I especially great with colors so I figured I would practice this. What started as a small study turned into what you see now. Before I go on, I have to say this is by far the most girly painting I've ever done. Definitely lots of fun, and hope to do more of these soon. Special thanks goes to my talented friend Mei Huang for feedback on young faces. As you guys can see in the progress image, the girl originally started looking in her mid-40s. I may try and do an older person later. Overall, great practice! Apologies that the progress chart is a little unorganized in terms of time difference between each image.

Survival Sketch #3

Not too much news to share. Today's class was really awesome, so I don't know how much I can call these survival sketches (sole purpose being to keep you from falling asleep in class). However, I didn't fall asleep, so I will count them. Lots of playing with shapes and more whimsical lines. Note that no reference was used, so if anatomy is off I apologize. Again, purely for keeping the mind active. Enjoy!!

Zbrush and Survival Sketch#2

So I'm not the best at Zbrush, but out of everything learning so far for some reason I really like how this little design came out. Also, here's a random sketch I did in class a while back.

Class Survival Sketch#1

Drew this in class today while teacher was talking. Sketching in Photoshop helps me to stay awake; otherwise I start to fall asleep because the classroom is cold. Hibernation mode activated. Concentration system failing. Noooo.... Any case, enjoy! Also, I'll be going to APE this year, so if you wanna meet up just e-mail me at mina.j.roy@gmail.com. :)