Street Fighter and Life Studies

Back from a trip to Las Vegas woo! Damn gambling will destroy your wallet.....unless you're sitting next to me. After poisoning myself there, my liver is currently filing a lawsuit against my brain. It was fun.

So I did another fruit painting study from life and was quite happy with it. I for sure have a lot to learn but I can remember how much trouble I had painting an apple in the past. It didn't look half as good as this.

I had morning-after regrets with my first Ryu painting. I thought it was stiff and too blurry. Here I decided to use more linework and altered the pose. I believe this one turned out more successful as it is a more natural pose and has better defined forms.

Here is my latest work since returning from Las Vegas. I was feeling some WCW wrestling entrances and went for that sort of pose. I believe my painting skills are improving but if any viewers have any suggestions or comments just let me know what you think! I'm trying to learn what I can. Zangief is so sick. Also its fun to take him down with my favorite character Dhalsim. Such a calculated match and at the same time, the Dhalsim player is scared shitless because being cornered or knocked down is pretty much death.

Still not sure how much linework I want to use in my paintings, as I haven't quite learned how to properly use high contrast and hard edges yet. Linework might help with clarity of my works. 

Its been hard to defy apathy, I'm working on it.