Natural History Museam - Stuffed Fox

This fox looks really stiff and lifeless (somthing which Luke mentioned instantly), but I can forgive myself this result since it was stuffed. It took about an hour. The legs and base are so bad that I can't bring myself to even post the whole image....

Natural History Museam - Mouse

I was going to sketch a few skeletons with pencil and paper, but this stuffed mouse caught my attention. I ran out of power after about 45 minutes, but spent about 10 minutes cleaning this up in a coffee shop

Frances Oneil's class

Another portrait from Frances Oneil's class. This was about 1.5 hours followed by 20 minutes cleaning things up.

Frances Oneil's class - portrait

I arrived a bit late, so this was about 1.5 hours in class. I wanted to see how far I could correct things from memory, so I spent about 2 more hours in a coffee shop working on this without reference.

I read a useful tip that might be of interest to other digital painters. Try saturating your main skin color layer a little more than you usually would, and then add a new layer. Pick a low opacity airbrush in a dull grey / beige and paint over the saturated skin with the dull color. It gives the image a little more life (you can think of it as a layer of dead skin cells masking the more intense skin tones).

15 Minute Jam Factory

This was a quick 15 minute digital sketch from a 30 minute pose. My laptop spent 15 minutes installing updates and then reverting the changes, which meant I didn't get this very far before time ran out. I might try finishing it later as a challenge of working without reference.