Maggie's Art Blog

caffeinatedbrushes 2018-01-16 13:58:17 UTC #21

I really love the colors and the strong highlight on her forehead and nose in the last one.

Watercolour 2018-01-16 22:14:23 UTC #22

Thank you, @bluepunkrise!
So here's some flowers (I'm not sure I've tried this before):

Watercolour 2018-01-22 22:07:42 UTC #23

Here's another one finished:

And a WIP:

Watercolour 2018-02-03 16:27:36 UTC #24

A fanart piece:

anthropon 2018-02-18 04:11:37 UTC #25

I'm just now getting around to see these. Nice work. You did a good job of capturing the expressions here. Your portrait work is getting better and better.

Watercolour 2018-02-19 13:00:23 UTC #26

@anthropon, thank you, this is exactly what I was putting the most effort towards
Here are some more somewhat finished pieces:

The last one was a request from a friend for a birthday gift - he wanted me to make a caricature of one of his friends showing off her outgoing side as well as her mommy side

So this is what I managed

anthropon 2018-02-20 18:50:13 UTC #27

good job with these. I'm sure your friend was more than pleased with the characture too.

Watercolour 2018-02-20 22:37:44 UTC #28

Well, he paid me So
Here's an old one I fixed up a little:

It's really strange for me how proud I was when I finished it the previous time and now a year later It looks soo different and not in a good way XD At least I know I'm improving

Watercolour 2018-02-22 09:28:01 UTC #29

And one more with a quick makeover:

Watercolour 2018-02-23 19:43:59 UTC #30

Another study:

Watercolour 2018-02-24 21:48:29 UTC #31

Today I decided to attempt to not-do-a-study:

Watercolour 2018-02-26 18:31:26 UTC #32

My last finished one:

And a WIP:

Watercolour 2018-03-03 14:01:53 UTC #33

Correction, now it's finished

Watercolour 2018-04-04 17:39:41 UTC #34

More stuff (no idea why all of them have their heads turned left):

Watercolour 2018-04-12 21:03:10 UTC #35

Another portrait study:

caffeinatedbrushes 2018-04-16 12:55:03 UTC #36

How long do you spend on a portrait study usually? They are looking good.

Watercolour 2018-04-21 18:10:05 UTC #37

@bluepunkrise for most of these, it took me much longer than I think I should have spent on them, I can't tell exactly how long because I often have just 1-2 free hours a day(and not every day), occasionally I have longer, and usually need a week or two to finish a painting. And because it takes me so much time, I decided maybe I need to go back to something simpler I'm more comfortable with and try to work faster so I can do more studies. So I started doing some quicker sketches (I plan on doing 2-3 per week) I can just finish up in Photoshop. Here's this week's accomplishments:

Watercolour 2018-05-03 11:04:20 UTC #38

Yesterday's sketch:

Watercolour 2018-05-05 19:52:42 UTC #39

Another sketch and a painting:

caffeinatedbrushes 2018-06-18 11:13:30 UTC #40

Your stuff looks great, keep going. Yeah I had to spend a couple years of my life working 50+ hours every week and it's hard to fit art in there. It can be really frustrating!

My life has been a lot better since I cut work down to 40 hours and really focusing on art last year.