[P diddy]

hey hey hey,

took about 6-7 hours today to get it where it is. Will probably spend another few hours on the facial details, refine the jacket a little bit, and then probably another few hours on the background.

locking myself away to paint for the past few weeks has defintely started to improve the way i'm rendering and looking at objects. Definately seeing colors as shapes, as well as seeing the light within a scene.

My other area of experimentation is to start rendering different objects and textures. I'm starting to use different shades of colors to create shadows instead of just taking one color and reduing it to black. Subtle use of blacks and whites make the image start to pop.

anyway, enjoy

hopefully will have it finished in a day or two.



here's one i finished last week. Had been on a painting block until this one today.
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[donk]

hehehe, it reminds me of hip flask. keep it up