Small Portrait of my Wife

Here is a small 5*8 portrait of my wife, Cindy.

My Oldest

I've been working on and off on this painting for about a month and a half. I would say I'm a little more than half way through it. It is being completed with Inspire Pro and I am working it the same way in which I would work a traditional painting, perhaps even more carefully. It starts first with a sketch and then I begin laying in the darks and lights, gradually building up to the realism of the image. In this case I am working each area to completion rather than working the image as a whole. 

Study of Picard

Here's a two hour study of Picard using Procreate.

Time Well Spent

I finally finished an ipad painting that I started last month. I probably spent 40+ hours working on this thing, painting the large important areas and tweaking and refining the little details which seemed to go on and on. I did not intend to get so bogged down in the small details but that sometimes happens with us artists. We cannot stop, or we do not know when to stop. But I was confident for the most part on the ending of this painting.
The subject is my youngest daughter at the age of five. I wanted to capture her personality and little facial features with that unique little smile she exhibits. I started with a pencil sketch on paper. I then took a picture of that sketch and loaded into the app, Inspire Pro. This is a fairly good app and excels at smooth paintings, not necessarily textured works. I kept track of my progress and here are a few pictures of the various working stages of the painting.

New Digital Painting

I've been working on this painting for quite some time. The beautiful model is my wife. I used various techniques for the image but the majority was freehand painted with the exception of the texture layer added at the end. Texture tends to deepen the image and add intrigue.