Christine's Journal Adventures

Study of

John Singer Sargent: Ena and Betty, daughters of Asher and Mrs Wertheimer (detail)

This one is in very early “blocking in” stages and the colour’s are not quite right yet.

I found this link very useful- Freeparking’s Flickr account high res artist images; useful for study.

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Random thing of the week:

I’ve been looking at open source software specifically of use to artists lately, as most of the software is very expensive I think this is good if your curious but skint like me.

“Scribus” for a free alternative to “In Design” at http://www.scribus.net/

“Blender” for 3D art and animation at http://www.blender.org/

“Gimp” for photo manipulation at http://www.gimp.org/

Practice in Painter.

I’ll be developing new stuff for my portfolio, I have decided to push the conceptual, costume design,  character design and general research side of things rather than solely showing detailed digital illustrations.

Here’s something I did today- a bit of costume design and colour study.

Waterhouse study. Corel Painter.

Using different paper textures a lot in this.

A head study referenced from “Lamia (on her knees)” by John William Waterhouse. Painted in Corel Painter.

Just found this nice Illustrator’s work.

http://www.jcleyendecker.blogspot.com/

I’ve been playing the old Tomb Raider 2 game a bit thanks to a patch on Tomb Raider Chronicles. I forgot how hard some of the levels were! I think the current Tomb Raider games still have a long way to go in scaring me as much as old ones did.

I’ve also been having lots of fun trying out colour combinations in Painter and making new brushes.

It turns out that there’s nothing drastically wrong with my shoulder (which I am very pleased about). The pain has been due to bad posture over a long period of time. In my case this was caused by stress, stress, stress and more stress due to certain events and people in my life over the last few years.

I won’t go into the gory details as they have no effect on me now.

I’m taking steps to improve my upper body strength and my posture, and already the pain has subsided just in the last few days.