Teaching Myself
How To Paint
AUGUST - DECEMBER 2021
2020
These were paintings completed while I was at Waubonsee Community College. I had no experience with painting before, either digital or traditional, and I had no formal training in drawing. I reccieved a drawing tablet from a close friend who got at as a gift but never used it. It was my first time using one, and as you can see below, I wasn’t very good with it. The one he gave me goes for $50 and I’m still using the same one 5 years later.
2021
As August 2021 I began my first semester as a student at WIU (Western Illinois University). For some reason, I was offered to join The University’s Centennial Honors College (CHC). As a participant in the CHC I had to choose a teacher and write up proposal for a project I wanted to undertake once per semester. For my first semester I spoke with my graphic design professor about doing something I had wanted to learn for years, learn how to digitally paint. None of the schools I had ever attended offered a class on it. I was never motivated to do it on my own, and I knew this would be a great opportunity to try it. All paintings are in chronological order.
My former dorm mate Charlie from Thompson Hall.
I like to call this one “Eva”.
Experimenting with new brushes. Clearly it isn’t working.
Karate chop, kick!
Yep, I can really see the resemblance
Hey you, stop looking at me
What a great superpower. Invisible face.
A close up of Beauregard Lionett arriving at her father's home (Critical Role C2 Ep 92 Home Is Where The Heart Is)
Home Is Where The Heart Is
A Close up of the textures
2023
2024
Cookie cutter shaped like a unicorn
Silver hand mirror with a nymph shaped handle
Painted wooden key whose teeth change every day at dawn
Delicate silver cameo with images of twins children opposite one another
Golden pendant charm shaped like a leprechaun
Tiny wooden box with a croquet set for pixies