Not really happy with this one, the colors aren't very good and some of the anatomy isn't very strong. Still figuring out how to use color and doing some experimenting with different techniques and this time it didn't work.

A hawk of some kind, I don't remember what kind of hawk it is. I think that this guy came out pretty good. I think that the feathers look particularly good. He took about two hours to finish.

 Still working on my speed while working with color so my figures aren't coming out as finished as I would like. That being said I like how this figure came out for the most part. Some parts like the the abs and the hands need some more work but I think that the rest of the figure is not bad.

Another pin up painting done from a book of pin ups. This took two hours to do and over all I think that for a short study it came out very nice. Her skin and face came out particularly good and I would have liked to have gotten more done on her hands and her clothes but I am trying limit the amount of time I spend on these studies.

 I like the way the abs came out in this figure. The light gave her skin a cool color that I thought looked neat so I wanted to copy it. I think that I was successful in copying the tone even though I wasn't able to finish the face or shoulders.

A two hour painting from a photo, I'm still having trouble working with color but I think that I'm getting better I liked the way the ocean came out in this picture even though its a quick painting.

 Okay this second attempt went much better than my first. The colors are much less muddy this time and the anatomy is better defined. I didn't get to the face because working with color is still kind of tough for me, but overall I like this figure.

A portrait done from a photo I found in a book of National Geographic photos. This photo was taken in Timbuktu. This took two hours to do.

 I have struggled with color for a long time so I've decided to just bite the bullet and start doing everything in color. This is my first attempt to paint a figure in color in a half-hour and I don't really like it. The colors are muddy and nothing is very well defined, the figure has no real life to it, and just ugh. As this is my first attempt to do something like this I wasn't expecting a whole lot and I have gotten better since I painted this (I have a weeks worth of these done ahead of time). As the old saying goes "the journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step".

It's some sort of lizard thing. I'm not quite sure what it is but I liked his scales an he reminded me of of the Ouroboros symbol; it's an ancient symbol that depicts a serpent eating its own tail, the meaning of the symbol changes depending on the culture but most of the time it has to do with a cycle of some kind. This painting took me about two hours and it was a struggle the whole time, I'm not used to drawing animals so this was outside of my comfort zone by a fair margin.

 I like the pose here, it's a very dynamic kind of pose. The drawing itself is pretty rough because I had some trouble getting the pose to look just right and that took up most of my time.

This is a two hour painting done from a book of pin up photography that I have. I've been doing mostly hour long studies for the last couple of months so now I'm trying to do some longer studies. I decided to paint some pin ups to practice poses and skin tone; those are two things that really elude me when I try to draw without a model.

 This figure came out much rougher than usual. It's not entirely bad but there are a lot f things that I would have liked to spend a little more time on, the arms and the face in particular.

I've needed to improve on my landscape painting skill for a while so I decided to just paint a few landscapes. This came from a book I have that's just photos of landscapes; this was in the first part of the book which focused on clouds. I really like the way that the clouds turned out here, some parts don't look as fluffy or soft as I would have liked but the color of the clouds is pretty good. This took two hours.