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2010 January 24
by Chelsea Conlin

I haven’t been doing any non-work sketching lately, so I thought I would post a few commissions here.

This series of three images are concept sketches for a poem by the talented Humberto Abreu. You can read more about the poem, Hope’s Journey, here.

And here are a few other random commissions.

Someone put Sean Connery in my Gregory Peck

2009 December 18
by Chelsea Conlin

EDIT: I’m full of mistakes lately. Serves me right, trusting the Internet for names. The ref photo I used was actually of Cary Grant. :/

I did this portrait study of Gregory Peck this morning, and no matter how much I tweaked it, I couldn’t get it to stop looking like Sean Connery. I finally enlarged the photo ref and placed it over the painting to see what was wrong. Mostly, it looks like I made his chin too pronounced, and the eyes/eyebrows are just slightly off, angle-wise. I don’t want to mess around with it anymore, but hopefully I learned from it.

Back

2009 December 17
by Chelsea Conlin

I haven’t been able to do much in the way of studies lately because my computer tried to kill itself. Literally. The video card capacitors actually exploded. Then I was really sick and just didn’t have the energy to do much. But here’s a little more work I did on the Murillo master study. I lost my old Painter brushes, so I’m still messing around.

Murillo and Loomis

2009 December 4
by Chelsea Conlin

EDIT: Apparently the artist who painted this was actually Gyula Benczúr! Oops.

Worked more on the master study last night, and some Loomis this morning.  HOOAH!

Jason Seiler

2009 December 3
by Chelsea Conlin

I drew this today for the Chiustream caricature contest with Jason Seiler. Participants must submit a caricature of him, and the winner gets his/her caricature drawn by Jason. This is the first caricature I’ve ever done, so I didn’t really know how to go about choosing which parts to exaggerate or play down. I would appreciate feedback. :)

Master study and enviro

2009 December 2
by Chelsea Conlin

Here’s a Murillo master study I started yesterday…

And an enviro from this morning. I’m terrible at environments, so I wanted to start with something pretty basic. The photo ref is from a photo taken by my friend Phil Lienesch, a biology professor at Western Kentucky University. :)

Onioooon

2009 November 30
by Chelsea Conlin

Study from this morning.

 

No turkeys here

2009 November 28
by Chelsea Conlin

Haven’t had much time for art because of Thanksgiving, but here is a page of pencil sketches, and I posted a finished piece in my Personal gallery on the Paper Nautilus main page.

 

Studies, studies

2009 November 25
by Chelsea Conlin

Andrew Loomis studies and a one hour study from this morning.

 

Cuttlefish

2009 November 22
by Chelsea Conlin

This is sort of a study for a painting I want to do. I wanted to work out the colors and composition, and would love feedback for how to improve on the next version. :)

Prismacolor pencils, and a little white acrylic paint.