Aphrodite

I started to design Ancient Greek Characters and this is the first one.This time I am trying a different style which was challenging but I learned some important lessons from it. It is always fun to learn new things.

Illustration for one of my best friend

This is one of my best friend and she is an amazing musician! She also plays bass, drums and piano and is also a vocalist. Her website is http://www.burcuozdereli.com .

I used her photo reference to paint this image. I had so much fun with every part of it. Also I played with lights to make it more interesting and dramatic. This really helped the overall mood.

Still Life Painting - 4

This is my 4th still life painting which I am very happy. I can see I am improving every time I paint by directly observing the objects. I can understand every material has different surface quality. This is a great practice to understand how light effects different materials. Also its so exciting to see the relationships between the values and colors. These will definitly add a lot to my designs.

Still Life Painting in Neutral Diffused Light-3

This is my 3rd still life painting for the Schoolism Course. I tried to  experiment with the brush. Also I tried to understand how light and color works. It was fun!

Portrait Study

I tried to study on a different style this time. I am learning from different artists by understanding the way they design their characters which is very exciting. It is not easy but every time you look at their works you see and learn something new.

Movie Still practice-1

I practiced on a movie still. The name of the movie is ''Ruby Sparks''. I am also sharing the original reference that I studied from. This was fun! This is also a great way of learning composition, light set up and usage of the colors.

Neutral Diffuse Light painting-2

So this is the second practice of the first lesson. Totally I will do 5. I loved working on this now I understand that i learn much more when I paint the real object :)

Painting Neutral Diffused Light-1

I have been away from painting because of so many things changed in my life. But finally now Im here again! So I started this Schoolism class called Painting with Light and Color and this is my first still life painting in a Neutral Diffused Light. Its so fun to paint from real time and setup. You see so many colors and its more easy to learn how colors and light respond to each other. So wait for more, I will be doing many practices to warm up before working on my own projects ;)

Portrait

Self Portrait

I always wanted to do a self portrait and I finally done it! I wanted to try using unusual colors and repeating visible brush strokes to express myself. I wanted to understand Van Gogh's style so I thought this will be great way to try it for my portrait. My aim is not to draw myself pretty. Portrait is a way to express that persons emotions in that period. Because every time we draw or paint we put all our feelings which shows the personality and uniqueness of the art piece. This time I didn't want to paint something cute and nice. Just want to express something that I feel in this period. I love to use my emotions in this way. It is another way explain yourself to yourself or other people:D