Progress post

I like weekends. I get so much more time to put towards my daily projects. It's hard to get much done on a weeknight - at least beyond building on my sketching skill (note to self, work more on speed and less focus on details). Weekends, I get to spend time hating the early painting steps till it starts to actually look like something.

It's getting late and we're headed to the Grandparents-in-law's early tomorrow, so I'm going to bed, but here is day 1 of this weekend's project. I'm tackling it with painting in mind, very minimal use of my sketching layer... should be interesting to see with that turned on at the end.

I don't know about you, but I think this is a huge improvement over my first shot at painting (the other old guy from 2 weeks ago(?)). It's kind of looking like my dad + another 30 years (and a broken nose... probably from teaching the twins martial arts).

Click the image for a larger version if you want to see details... it's a bit too tall for the 650 wide scale the blog is set too... the file I'm working on is 2302x4014 at 300 res. Started out trying to do 6500x6500 to make it a shower curtain upload at society6... but the brush lag was about 5 seconds behind. How awesome would it be to sneak it into someone's house and set up as a prank?... too bad.