Still getting the hang of things but really enjoying the process.

Fun stuff

I did each of these multiple times and I’m slowly getting better at finding colors. It was surprising to discover just how little time 15 minutes is - after the first several attempts I was forced to make bigger blocks of color. Occasionally I would color pick from the original image just to see how far off I was. This is going to be one of those forever exercises be cause I’ll always feel like there’s room for improvement.

I thought I did ok on some of these but others I really don’t think turned out very well. I’m posting what I’ve been able to do thus far in hopes that some day I’ll look back on these and think ”boy I’ve come a long way” - one step at a time…

I did a very simple lemon grass.

I could spend forever on these but I decided I’d move on and do more rather than eternally “perfecting” just these.

This time I tried for actual shapes instead of just gestural lines. This definitely takes actual practice to get my hand to go where my mind wants it to go.

I learned a lot on this one - still trying to get my "color vision" established. Coming from using Procreate most of this was primarily trying to understand the details of photoshop iPad vs desktop (not all features were available on the iPad). There were many places in my layer structure that made it easier or harder to colorize - things to keep in mind for the next painting. I know there are some nasty transitions and overlaps but I'd rather do better on the next painting rather than spend the rest of my life working on this one.

It was harder than I thought to get started but then I felt like I found my groove. so after watching the demo (after posting these) I realize I should have been trying to design shapes not just focusing on the gesture lines.

I didn’t think I was particularly imaginative on this one but here it is.