just trying a new aproach. this is just a bad doodle. why do I keep forgeting that without a good drawing as a base there's no such thing as a good painting.

More of the same. 20 to 30 minutes each.

20 minutes exercises from Space Odyssey.

I think I'm going drag.

I should try a couple of these per day to see if I can improve this kind of thing because right now they suck. I do them thumbnail size.

The background leaves me frustrated. But I wanted to finish it in one day so, here it is as it is.

Another sketch from the last few days that got a bit pretentious and made me finish it off. Like in the previous one I just tried to fill in the background.

I don't think that it is as good as the previous two or three. It just started as a sketch and then I kinda forced myself to finish it. I have to get used to plan more what I'm going to paint.

One more step on the long road. At least I think I'm understanding better what I have to do. Even if I'm unable to do it :)

It would take me day and a half more or less if I had done it in one go. It's still too much time for something like this, but at least I think I'm improving a bit, and I guess I understand better the process. Anyway, it's not that good but I think it's a good effort. If I knew how I would try to work more on a few things that I think are missing, like humidity and texture (I would say).

It seems I revisited my love for old Sci-Fi book covers. I'm still trying to find new ways or methods to develop my drawing from a sketch phase to something a bit better. Although I haven't polished this one, I really like it because it turned out better than what I was expecting. This one goes for my friend Ben Ho who is always encouraging everyone he knows.

I've been trying some new ways of thinking about painting. The mountains are very sketchy but I think it's better than what I used to do. I've tried to approach it the same way I do when I'm copying photos. The soldier is one of the first tries in a method that looks more like colouring. I left the lines just to remind me that I need to have more definition in my paintings. Can't have them looking like this.

More exercises. I have to start trying some environments from my imagination just to see if these are helping.

I'm glad I started these exercises with waves. After those, doing these mountains looks much simpler. Anyway, same thing here, 20 minutes each from photos. I think I'm finally starting to have an idea of how to approach the painting. ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Some more unintentional abstract art :S (Another rock is here. Harder to find than Wally). 20 minutes to copy them from photos. ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

A few more. They still look so abstract, but again, in 20 minutes it's the best I can do. Anyway, again it was all copied from photos of waves. (But there's a rock ok?!) ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

These I copied from photos. Took me about 20 minutes each. Have to do more. Althought some of them look almost like abstract painting, they are not :) They are all supposed to be waves (except for the rock. Yes there is a rock in one of them!).