Booty!

Believe it or not, this was my own Omar Little doodle that got further and further away from me until it retained literally nothing from the original. Well, aside from the skin tone. And her propensity for whistling "The Farmer in the Dell" before robbing drug dealers.

I tried something new here, by shying away from lines and attempting straight color blocking. Also new, a background! Not so new is how half-assed of a job I did on it.



Click to enlarge, as it's way too big to fit in-line in the post. I don't want you to miss all of the intricate detail I neglected to put in it.

What what say life's a beach...

Tonight's doodle:



And the reference photo, which I should have paid a lot more attention to. :/

As embarrassing as this is, I actually think I learned a lot while doing it. Primarily, there's a lot to be said for simplicity. I noodled around too much over rendering, when in the end, what I believe to be the most successful parts are the sand, the palm tree shadow, and parts of the tree, where I kept it simple. Overall, it wasn't turning out TOO terribly for awhile, until in addition to the excessive scribbling of "detail", I tried to add in the clouds and the water. I really need to learn how to render those things, I know there are plenty of tutorials out there, but I kind of wanted to just speed paint.

Ah well, it was fun, and like I said, I think I'm learning things slowly.

More to come later in the week most likely.