start of something...

It's been so so long, and it's terribly sad that I don't have much to show for it...school is somehow even more demanding this semester, while less creatively appealing...since I'm taking a course on colour, projects usually involve painting endless amounts of swatches for various different purposes...but so good things did happen...

Here's the two roughs for my final portrait piece, in gouache...the idea was to take a photo (I chose this lovely one here) and posterize it in Photoshop, then transfer it and paint it using a proper value scale between two complimentary colours...and in the end I chose the right one, and the final piece looks pretty good, so I think it worked out..

And this is a little preview of a sketchbook project I'm working on with some friends, of which there will be more info and images later...

I'll come and post again as soon as I make something worthwhile...I've been aching to sketch again, so something might just happen...

"Is this the end, or just the start of something really, really beautiful..." - Voxtrot, The Start of Something