Malo

Here's a quick two-hour study from life that I spent another couple of hours at home cleaning up.

Lauren

Lauren, Photoshop

It was really fun to paint this digitally, because if you understand how to read the RGB sliders in Photoshop, you can mix colors in seconds flat. It would have taken me two to three times as long to do this traditionally with oil, and I'm not sure if the result would have been better.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not knocking oil or abandoning it as a medium. I just had to finish this painting as fast as I could, as I had to leave the workshop early to watch the new Harry Potter movie. Haha!

Amy

12" x 16", oil on canvas board

Four hours.

Crystal

Four hours. 11" x 14".

Connie

At Garden Cafe the other night, a buddy and I made a deal - if he would bust out the paints like he's been saying he would, I would do more than just paint a disembodied head (which I've gotten too comfortable doing). We kept our promises. This was a great learning lesson for me. Painting clothes and accessories will help me get better at rendering different types of materials and simplifying details such as drapery folds, the knowledge of which go a long way in improving my character and environment designs.

This was done on Sunday over at the workshop in Kirk's garage - which we have lovingly christened: the "Kirkshop". Catchy, huh?

Nicole

Three hours.

Francesca

Twos, threes, fives, and a two-hour pose.

Sherman

Twos, fives, and a two-hour pose.

Natalie

Fives and a two-hour pose. My instructor Lucas worked on the head and fixed some of the wonky shapes I had going on. Thanks man.

Chris

Fives and a two-hour pose. Thanks for the help on this one, Stan.

Erin

Five hours. It never ceases to amaze me how I never am able to finish five-hour drawings yet still manage to pump out halfway-decent three-hour pieces.

Jee

Three hours. 11" x 14" on masonite. I missed a night in Joseph Todorovitch's Portrait and Figure Drawing class a couple of weeks ago due to illness, so I decided to schedule the make-up session in my teacher and friend Rick Morris' class, Fundamentals of Painting. I first took this class almost a year ago, so walking in tonight kind of felt like a homecoming of sorts. We had the choice of either working on the head or the figure, and I chose the latter. I've never painted a full figure before, but that didn't really worry me too much, because one of the best ways to get better is to do what terrifies you. It doesn't matter if the work you create is good or not; what's important is that you learned something in the process.

Still, all in all, it turned out pretty well, and painting the full figure wasn't as arduous an experience as I thought. Thanks again for all the help and tips tonight, Rick. I guess now that I know I can paint them with some measure of success, I should probably do more figures in the future...