I’ve been picking away at a color sketch in Photoshop, and I think it’s finally done.  I try to do pencil sketching, ink and crosshatching practice and Photoshop/digital sketching and manipulation each week just to get new ideas rolling around in my head.  Sometimes they work, other times not so much.

I’m also trying to get something down on paper (or on “monitor”) when I think about it.  I have a few sketchpads, and I have a new Moleskine that I’m trying out.  Along with that, if I see a picture that I’ve taken I’ve been trying to practice with it and go with whatever flow comes along.

The piece below is one of those.  You’ll notice on a previous blog I talked about the skull/anatomical reference I built (you do read all of these things right?), and I grabbed one of those pics and manipulated it.  I have a hard time calling such work “art”, I think I lean towards calling them “photo illustrations”.

Let me know what you think of it. I call it Gods in the Depths Below.

I’m trying to be better about getting new pieces every week, whether it’s a full piece or just a sketch. This one is in between, it’s a color sketch with some fun (for me) techniques.

What I need most is just to build my confidence back to where it was before.  I was on a good track a few years ago, and I need to find that groove again, regardless of life issues, depression, my headaches, different job concerns, or anything else that might pop up.

I want to be an artist.  To be so, I’d damn well better get at it and stop letting the world run me.

I don’t always get to just experiment and have fun with Photoshop, and tonight I had a chance to so I ran with it.  This takes the place for tonight’s sketching, something I’ve been trying to do every day.

The images below are for possible use with the great site The Big Adios (or at least their MySpace).  Visit there if you haven’t been yet.