Maja Underwater

Finished a new painting today. Had to. My sister is coming by tomorrow and promised to show it to her then.

Im realy happy with this one. Which is realy rare. Normaly it takes me a few days, if not longer, to be ok with what i make.

Did this one in photoshop without making a pensil sketch first as i normaly do. Was made from a picture of my sister so didnt feel i had to. From the picture changed the lighting, colours, hair, shadows. Basicly, i kept the face structure to help me figger out how to add shadows and lighting my self (wont help me much just to copy anymore).

The first few hours of the drawing i was sure it was going to be realy bad. Disatures. But thought about it as practise, that it didnt need to be the most beautiful end result, as long as i learned from it. It worked realy well and managed to finish it in just a few days. Started with it Saturday and done today, Tuesday.

My first blog

I finaly finished my camel. Started out as just a fast sketch. Thought i would use it to practise colours as i need to work on that alot. Then i started to think about a middle-east theme for the idea of a story i havent been able to work out how to tell.
 So it nicely fit in to each other. I normaly have alot of ideas that im working on either in my head trying to work out how i want to tell this story/idea or (next step) with pen and paper, lots of sketch work, trying to get the flow/movement/feeling right or (next step) in photoshop where i clean up the sketch, add colour, get a finished piece.
 Ill try to add some links to a few places where i upload most of my stuff, but will add things here too from now on.

So the camel