Friday, February 6, 2009

Just Blocking in



I'm working on the block in for another homework piece for Brenda - is she sounding like a slave driver?? If your reading this, Brenda, (first I'll be flattered) some of us NEED slave drivers or we'd procrastinate. I admit I feel some pressure to have my assignments done for the next class. The first thing we do is share with the whole class what we did that week. This is a good thing or I might find excuses everyday to avoid the challenge. Brenda does not let you take the easy way out. But that's what makes her a good teacher.

I will finish blocking in some values and then I will get rid of some hard lines between some of them and then I think I will just develop the eye area and the highlights in the muscles around them. I'm not having much success with the paws without making them look too prominant so I might just ignore them for now. By looking at the photo I can easier see how the whole right side is in shadow and so tonight I'll make that one dark shape. That will be a good move towards finishing the block in.

3 comments:

Orion said...

wanting to finish something is one thing, finding the motivation to follow through is the challenge.

Susan said...

That's exactly why I am in classes. Unfortunatly it takes an outside pressure sometimes to get me going and to make me follow through. Knowing that I am going to face my fellow students and my instructor pushes me to complete my tasks....yeah - that's why I am responding to your comment instead of painting right now!
Did I mention I'm also a last minute kinda girl??

Orion said...

ha ha... there's always something else to squeeze in before actually digging your heals down into the muck.