Charlotte's Works

Thanks Dave - I took a look at the ref and yes the shoulder line should have been more of a straight horisontal line without the dip between/from shoulder strap and/to shoulder...

Some sort of "speed paint" for a new FB avatar - I don't think I'll use it though. Was going for "kinda cute" and ended up with "kinda creepy". And dull... Ho hum.

The election is over so I guess there's no point in having a dandelion avatar anymore I'd forgotten about that - I keep starting new pics without finishing any of them...

This weekend I started this year's christmas card. Figured I'd better start before it was too late seeing as I always take so long to finish anything. Last year the xmas card was sort of red so this year I'm going for sort of blue... (Guess next year's will be green ) It's still early stages and I'm not sure how to get the spruce and the moss to look like I want... (the only thing pretty much finished - I think - is the pot). Anyway I'm currently working with postcard size (but 300 ppi) as I haven't decided whether I want to make it bigger in case I ever want it for anything but postcard sized postcards...

Digital wrote:

Look forward to seeing it completed.

yeah, me too Hopefully in time... I still haven't figured out how to best paint the spruce but I think I might be able to handle the moss... maybe...

uhm, seems I sorta er... got side tracked. Again. Anyway, I've tried several times to paint the spruce (yes the green in the background) but it never looks right and I'm back to the issue of the colours greying out the more I paint. Darn you ArtRage. Considering giving Painter 2015 a go (tried Painter XIII and didn't like it but perhaps I was unfair? ) Anyway yes the spruce and the moss is the fluffy blur in the background for now. Not too concerned about the "split" since I hope the other stuff (moss and all) will tie it together a bit, but yes if I ever get back to it I suppose there should be writing too...

Anyway, in light of the brief discussion on bird evolution over in the Random thread, I figured I might as well show another thing I've been working on. Which I'm also stuck on... It looks rather crappy right now and I have no idea to move forward. Probably need to practice painting birds from refs, anyway...







(the leafy background doesn't look so bad if you view the image stamp size but oh I hate it at full size lol)