Scribbles....

**Sorry this is so small... I don't know where the original is at (at the moment), so had to rely on google image's cached thumbnails :(.

Paint scribbles, waiting to leave work on a Friday afternoooon :(.

Falconry is awesome.

I want to do it. But realistically I know that I don't have the time to give the love and care a raptor (VELOCIRAPTOR!) deserves :(. So here I am living vicariously through artage! I know... her hand is about to get ROCKED.

And here are some close ups. Mostly, for anyone's that was curious - I wanted to show how loose you can be when painting while still giving the impression of detail. I remember I used to *slave* away at details - nothing was left unrendered and unblended. Though I think it's important to be able to create hyper-clean-detail when it's called for, for the purpose of getting ideas down on paper, structured looseness is a good skill to practice :). I'm still working on it >_>!

Just messing around...

...before sleeeeep :). My favorite thing to do!

This turned into a little bit of color practice - lately I've felt really out of touch with non-cutesy colors as I've been working on painting Gaia environments for too long. The environments generally lend themselves to a pastel, hypersaturated palette and less contrast, relying more on color contrast for shading. As you can see I still had some trouble staying away from the bright colors XD. I have a habit of staying "safe" with my lighting, so I threw that in there too.

Anyway, sorry nothing finished :(. I might go back and finish this later, but I have like a BAJILLION other pieces that I need to finish first lol.