If there’s one thing I need to work on it’s my organization! I think that the covid experience really messed with my sense of time. The world stood still while everyone was afraid. I can’t remember which of these sketches I made in 2021, and which I made in 2022, but I’ve done my best to split them up. The majority of my year was spent practicing portraits, and as you can see it paid off beautifully!
Some of them I turned into digital paintings. Others I would love to use for oils, or even as character art for stories I’m not yet equipped to tell.
Character art for a story I’m not ready to write. Although I keep trying, I don’t think I’m much of a storyteller yet. That’s probably why I keep practicing! One day I’ll tell a full story.
We never consider our own mortality, always thinking that we will have more time to learn, perfect, or practice before we begin.
On one hand we always want to wait until we feel ready to tackle a project, and there’s something to be said for skill, but on the other hand…I’ve learned with age that “perfection is the enemy of progress,”
How many stories are untold because someone thought they’d have tomorrow? That may be too dark.
Siren - I’d been having dreams all year about mermaids and sirens, but they weren’t the nice ones.
Abby
Araceli
Shieldmaiden - based off a photo from a well-known viking photographer. I’ll update when I find his work again!
A foggy mind
meep
Goddess
Very loose pose practice
Human touch - Initial sketch for a completed oil painting. I was lucky during Covid. I can be slightly introverted, and I had my husband at home with me. Others weren’t so lucky. Missing human touch, something as simple as a pat on the shoulder, a handshake, or the accidental touch of a hand at the store, weighed heavily on many of my friends.
Human touch 2 - Unfinished sketch for another oil painting, promised to a friend.