amanda appiarius

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practice painting Feb 26, 2009by amanda2 Comments


As I’ve mentioned before, I’m trying to improve my painterly Photoshop skills. To sum it up, I’d really like to achieve the effect of acrylics through digital media. I’m not quite there yet, but this is one of my practice rounds (hence the imperfect features and strokes). Hopefully I’ll be doing a real illustration next whereas this was a very quick sketch. I still had fun doing it though, especially those crazy, summery, flyaway hairs. Drawing = life.

2 Comments leave a Comment »

  1. Josh02/26/2009 at 8:26 PM

    She looks fantastic! I love the freckles! :D

  2. Michelley02/27/2009 at 2:44 AM

    She’s so cute… but she looks a bit angry/annoyed. I think it’s the mouth. :p MiSS YoU!

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