After Day 3’s still life painting, I felt confident enough to try another painting of a person. Again, it’s a female. Since I’m better at drawing females than males, I usually draw females as a way to gauge how well I’m drawing. That’s why I usually paint/draw females whenever I’m learning new in drawing, such as how to paint in a new digital painting program. I liked working on this painting! It’s been a while since I painted a female with above-the-shoulder hair, brown eyes, and red lipstick. I forgot how much I missed it. The background was made with the airbrush. I then smudged the color using one of…

I’ve been bad about updating my posts for the Gimp challenge, mostly because I’d rather work on my pictures than post them online. So… here’s day three! I was really mad my first original painting in Gimp 2.8 didn’t look the way I wanted it to, so I decided to try to paint more original pictures before I began to figure out how to add backgrounds, layers, ect. I didn’t want to draw more people, so I painted a still life. The reference for my still life was some of the books and a spool of tulle that was sitting near my computer. This is how it turned out…. This…

By day 2 of the Gimp challenge, I started to feel confident enough in working with Gimp 2.8 that I decided to draw a human. I had trouble working with it, but I finished it. Here she is…. There are pros and cons to this picture, and I’ll go into detail below….

Back in January, I tired to do a 30 Day Art Challenge. I ended up stopping it because I had too much going on in my life to continue it. Now, it’s August, and I decided to try again. This time, for Gimp. I usually paint pictures using Gimp for a variety of reasons, mostly because I’m not a professional artist and I don’t make money off my paintings. So, I don’t think buying a program would be a good idea because I cannot pay for a new program using the funds I make off my art. Gimp is free, and fits my needs as a “hobbyist”. I usually work…