Sketchbook – silentheart00

[silentheart00]

Done!  I am done!  This is the best I can do, yeah, some things could be better, but I am done!

[malhomsi]

@silentheart00  it is really good ! love the unusual concept ! i like the crow blade !  

[silentheart00]

@malhomsi Thanks!

[silentheart00]

No rest.  Now it’s Valentino’s turn!

I think the shoulders are probably a bit narrow, but I’ll take a look with fresh eyes later.

[silentheart00]

Rough sketch getting more refined.  Might be about time to lay down color.

[silentheart00]

Color!

[silentheart00]

Ah, I love rendering hair.

[smurfmier1985]

@silentheart00 nice highlights! now it’s coming to life 🙂

[silentheart00]

@smurfmier1985 Thanks!  Need to fix the roots a bit, but certainly coming together!

[smurfmier1985]

@silentheart00 by the way the progress you made over time is impressive! Look at the piece at top of the sketchbook and your last finished works, you’ve improved your skills ten fold, wickedly awesome dude keep it up and you’ll kick grad school arse 👊😃

[silentheart00]

@smurfmier1985 Heh, thanks 😅 It certainly has been a journey, and there are definitely more things I can improve, but thanks to the support of you, @theluthier , the other instructors here and the community, I know I’m putting my best foot forward each day.  This is all practice and build up for me to tackle grad school the best way I can.

[silentheart00]

Oh, yeesh, what happened the last few weeks?

I got caught up in other things, mainly a small health concern while pulling some extreme travelling.  I chalked that up to being dehydrated and not eating much during all of that. I’m much better now, just shouldn’t pull something that extreme in the future.

Now, time to get reacquainted with Mordecai/Valentino!

[silentheart00]

Well, after feeling demotivated last week, I really wanted to hit the ground running this week, but my tablet might’ve died.  I say might because it’s a Wacom Cintiq Companion and it’s being detected by my desktop despite not powering on?  I don’t know what’s up with that.  I held down the power switch for a long period of time, and the only thing I get is one green LED status blip and it’s dead after that.  But I unplug the HDMI cable and my PC responds, so something is being output.  Maybe if the battery dies, it’ll reset itself?  Sigh…  I do have an old tablet I can use, but man, having a screen is super sweet.

I was thinking about getting back into oil paints, but not like this…

😢

[Ingrid Frank]

@silentheart00 I don´t really know much about cintiqs, but I heard that there are huge problems with tablets of every sorts (Wacom included) when a new Windows update rolls in… Maybe that´s the root of the problem and hopefully not your Cintiq ….

[silentheart00]

@fide Thanks for that possibility!  I have tested my tablet when it is not connected to my PC, and it still gives the one little blip and nothing. 😢

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