New bonus post: Landscapes

I almost forgot about these. Just finished three 30 minute landscape studies I'd like to share with anyone kind enough to be hanging around here.

All three look much better small but I don't think they're that bad for my firs time in forever doing such quick paintings. All done digitally from photo reference. 

Bonus post: Lighting stuff

I know that I call this blog Go Figure and that is primarily because it's goal was to help me improve my understanding of anatomy and the human figure. However, it is also a digital sketchbook, akin to the one I keep at conceptart.org. As such I'll share some of the other things I work on to improve my skills.

I had a lot of fun with the one on top especially and learned a bit more about doing lighting in my images in the process. 

Unit 4: Portraiture-Lips and some portraits

This isn't quite the way I'd wanted to return to the blog but lips are an important part of the face and some study of them is necessary. Especially since I didn't do that good of a job :(

More practice to come on the subject.

Then I've got these guys. A couple of portraits just done in pencil. I admit I had more fun and think I did a better job capturing the likeness of the female subject than the male (the male was found via doing a search for asian male models) and frankly the woman was just more fun to draw (though I think I got her head leaning a bit. I'll do some full paintings soon that'll hopefully demonstrate some portraiture improvement.