Welcome to day 14 of the 30 Day Lip Challenge. So. I really need to stress this. If you are doing this challenge along with me. DO NOT TAKE A PICTURE OF YOUR LIPS AND DRAW THEM. You must use your reflection. Why? First off, when a photo is taken, it flattens the image itContinue reading “30 Day Lip Challenge: Day 14/ Self Portrait Lips”
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30 Day Lip Challenge: Days 10-12
Welcome to the 30 Day Lip challenge. Where I paint/draw a pair of lips from a certain theme every day for 30 days minus the few break days scattered in between. So, I have been consistently drawing every day, I just haven’t been posting them. Which begs the question, what’s to stop me from cheating?Continue reading “30 Day Lip Challenge: Days 10-12”
30 Day Lip Challenge: Day 9/Child
So… children’s lips are very difficult. Their heads are somewhat shaped differently than adults. There’s more fat in their faces so it looks like their mouths protrude out more. It’s difficult to draw dimples and not make them look like wrinkles. The key thing here I think is the eyes. These don’t really look likeContinue reading “30 Day Lip Challenge: Day 9/Child”
30 Day Lip Challenge: Day 8/ Old Master Studies
For this entry, I drew four lips from Old Master paintings. The reason why I included an exercise involving Old Master art is because I believe studying their techniques helps improve your art style. You can almost see how they held their pencils, what colors they used, and how they achieved a semi-realistic image. IContinue reading “30 Day Lip Challenge: Day 8/ Old Master Studies”
30 Day Lip Challenge: Day 7: Studying Vanderpoel.
Here is Day 7: Studying Vanderpoel. As a kind of Christmas gift to myself, I purchased the book, The Human Figure by John H. Vanderpoel. He goes over how to create the human starting with each individual part of the face all the way until the entire human body. So, today, I was studying hisContinue reading “30 Day Lip Challenge: Day 7: Studying Vanderpoel.”
30 Day Lip Challenge: Expressions
Day 6 is lips in various expressions. Almost forgot to do the challenge today. Only had time to draw four. Good night!
Art Challenge: Lips!
Here’s a question specifically for the wonderful artists who are currently reading this. Yeah, you. You’re wonderful. I generally don’t get along with other artists, so I’m very grateful for the fact that you’re here right now. Have you ever had something that came up in your work a lot that you could not getContinue reading “Art Challenge: Lips!”