Winter is coming...

Nothing ominous about that, just always thought the Starks had the best words from Game of Thrones, but none the less Winter is coming. Technically it's here and now it's the holiday season, but since I didn't get this posting up sooner I'm acting like it's still earlier.

Today I posted a game changer for me as I really wanted to get into a very in depth color piece. I also wanted to experiment with a few other coloring methods that I've been thinking of and reading about, so I decided to give it a try and to do one of an animal, which I haven't done in the longest time, then I also debated about what kind of animal until I finally decided on doing one of a Hawk.

One of the biggest reasons of why this was a game changer for me was the way that I colored it which was a new way of blending color pencils, that was similar to how I do it with graphite pencils which all comes down to a number of layers upon layers slowly building up to a finished look, which made a familiar concept new and refreshing by doing it with color. As I said it was a real learning experience for me as it was my first time doing it this way and I was happy with how it turned out and how fun it was to experiment with and really helped kick start the creativity and helped make me more passionate about my work and continuing to experiment with new ideas and new combinations of mediums.

Overall I was happy with how it turned out, I was hoping for a better background for it, but as I look back at it now I realize I made a slight mistake in the first few layers of color in the background not being as solid as what they were on the hawk. It still came out nice and the point of every piece is to learn something new, especially when you try something new, so I look forward to continuing on with other pieces taking what I've learned with this to those in the future.

Here's a preview of what I'm working on next following the new ideas.

 

Some slight changes to the portfolio, more coming some time in the future, right now it's just a change in the header to reflect the coming changes.

In case I don't get another update in this month I'll simply say it now. Hope you all enjoy the holiday season.

Merry Christmas,

~Patrick