Digital watercolor & ink [View all]

In my retirement, I'm working on a BFA in photography. Since it's a BFA (they don't offer a BA), I've got to do all of the studio classes. I've never worked with Fresco (the Adobe drawing program), watercolor (in real life), etc. So instead of photography, this semester I'm tackling a bunch of basics. (Until I took photography classes starting last fall I've had no formal art training beyond 8th grade.)

My photography professor has been pushing me to use a drawing tablet for digital work, so I decided to do a whole bunch of new things while I'm waiting for classes to start this fall . . . Here's a digital watercolor & ink (my 10th-ish) based on a photograph I took for my last class.



Things I like: the jacket and shirt, the face (generally, if I squint). Things I don't like: Some of the facial lines are too dark, and the transitions some of the facial coloring is too stark (and I wasn't as smart/careful about layers as I should have been - so changing the opacity to lighten the lines also lightens the eyes, for example).

Constructive criticism welcome.