Painted a digital plein air from life yesterday, it was fun to keep up with the changing time of the day/lighting condiitions!

It's been a while since I last posed! Thought I could give it another go. 

Here are some sketches that I did for practice.

Used: 30% memory, 50% imagination and 20% Photoshop :)

Harpy eagle morning study (photo reference from San Diego zoo)

and exploration sketch of a griffin  :)

Some pencil sketches from life, fixed a little upon my teacher's feedback :) Daddy elephant having dinner and his son

last assignment was to create a human/tetrapod hybrid. As last time, anatomy charts were required.  I did a lot of iterations of heads, will try to shoot and upload later. This is not the nicest guy you could meet on the street.

Lineart, head close-up. I enjoyed drawing and hatching , I use to draw less details  kill line with overpaint, but this time went with other technique, preserving lines and throwing in colors on layer below.

I thought I'll upload a line verion of the creature from my previous post too, since I'm writing about process here. 

For technique reference I was looking at Terryl's Elemex drawing which I saved from Creatures of Amalthea's course back in the day. The course is not available anymore , but I find the few ones I saved very helpful.

I'm into 1st week of Creature anatomy course with Terryl Whitlatch :)

Super excited about it, but it's also very intense (which is good :) ).

I'm going to share some of my sketches and assignments here, probably not everything since it takes time to photograph/upload stuff, so I might share sketches later on.

Part of the assignment was to create a generic tetrapod based on real animals' anatomy. Here's mine :)

Sketched my neibhour's cat from life. I love the way her long fur clamps in soft locks.

As a huge fan of animals I try not to miss a chance to sketch them from life :) 

Tonight I sketched a Yorkshire terrier  that  was my little furry guest.