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Day 92  by  CinnamonAlchemy

That’s it! Done with another ArtSlam. Fun and Frustration all at once. I’m really excited about the stuff I did this year, even if it was rough for a while. 

And what I am most pleased with is the emergence of Zack. It’s very rare that a new character just pop out of my head in such a demanding fashion, and I’m way excited to have come out of this with a new story idea, setting and character.

So to end the Slam, I finished this piece. It’s done. Zack says goodbye and thanks, and so do I!

I also made a complete portfolio post of every drawing over here at the LJ ArtSlam.

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Day 91  by  CinnamonAlchemy

I took a break from GW2 to draw an adorable Dolyak.

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Day 90  by  CinnamonAlchemy

I figured the last speedpaint refinement I’d do for this year would be the first speedpaint portrait I did in this series. Looking back at that one vs. the last speedpaint portrait, I can see that I learned a lot and have gotten more comfortable not-blending in Photoshop.

Yay!

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Day 89  by  CinnamonAlchemy

Figure drawings. Being lazy.

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Day 88  by  CinnamonAlchemy

Into GW2. Not so into drawing right now. :P

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Day 87  by  CinnamonAlchemy

Failing at Zack. I don’t know where he went.

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Day 86  by  CinnamonAlchemy

Reworked another of the speedpaints. Six more days!

Back to GW2…

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Day 85  by  CinnamonAlchemy

The urge to draw is waning, so I went back and took one of the speedpaints into Painter to try refining it. 

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Day 84  by  CinnamonAlchemy

Didn’t put as much effort into this one. I blame the proximity of the GW2 release. 

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Day 83  by  CinnamonAlchemy

Whoops, almost forgot to post. More speedpaints. This angle was difficult.

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Day 82  by  CinnamonAlchemy

Still speedpaintin’.  ~30 mins from photo ref.

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Day 81  by  CinnamonAlchemy

I… think I’m actually starting to have fun with this. Especially these last two days. I’ve been a little shocked by how they’ve turned out - in a good way.

I feel like I’m having an easier time with placing color. Maybe if I do enough of these, I can start to do it without a ref. For now, I’m going with this.

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Day 80  by  CinnamonAlchemy

~45 mins in Photoshop from photo ref. Still speedpainting. Working on face angles and lighting.

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Day 79  by  CinnamonAlchemy

More speedpainting portraits. Playing with texture and colors. Under 30 minutes; rushed the hair, whoops.

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Day 78  by  CinnamonAlchemy

More Texture practice - I loved the texture of this brush, despite the visible repeat in its pattern. Huge face crop because yum texture.