Updates: new social links

 I know its been so long and anyone who have been following this blog I appreciate it and give you the updates of where you an find my work on these social websites since AI had grown and Deviantart I no longer upload my work there anymore so moved on to others. I know I should have done so but this year has been real busy for me with work and other projects. I will still be keeping this blog on so people can see my previous work:

Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@dwaugh2215

Artstation: https://www.artstation.com/waugh-illustrate

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/waughillustrate

Facebook https://www.facebook.com/WaughIllustration

Ford car portrait

A car show be coming up with one in Croft Supercar show this year, the JCP Community farm asked me to paint a portrait of a car, it was actually the first time I painted one so gave it a shot. Had a look at the photo and figured how it should look snd get the position right, taken snapshots to show the progress from each step of how I did it.

source: https://www.jpcspecialistmotorsports.com

So to start out I used the photo they picked for me to do, took a thought of how it would fit on the canvas, Drew out the shapes and where to paint as the lines would be painted over.

Then used yellow and would do more than one layer over the texture of the canvas, started s9me with black before adding the grey highlights.

With the windows and more parts of the car coated with more layers, once ready would add other colours to the portrait.

For the final touches were the number 64 and the wheels, had to do circles to be sure they were right but found it a little tricky for making the number in a awkward position but was close enough and so far liked how it the portrait turned out in the end.

Didnt want it to have a blank background so gave a greyish theme and used masking tape sround the corners to give it a white border look for the auction.

House Cat Acrylic Portrait

 So I was given a new commission from a friend of mine to ask to paint his cat, so I used acrylic paints I still have needed to use before get a new set. So looking at the photo as the cure was mostly brown with stripes, I used mainly brown and had to get the pose right while having a blueish background, making sure the fire in different shades of brown blended together and did a tricky job for the detailed areas such as the ears and eyes. Previous mistakes of the body shapes so I painted over that part to make it into a shadow to improvise and like how it.

He was really pleased with how it turned out and worth the pay to know it was something he likes to hang up on display.

Portrait commissions

 Been awhile and got some new images I’ve been working in lately for awhile as I’ve been a little busy for course works and new ideas working on. So here are what I’ve been doing to show you all. Been taking commissions from a community and did some guinea pigs, chickens and a Shepard dog.

Heres what I’ve done for a commission Ive taken, it was a little slow with limited paint supplies but gotten much as I can get for this portrait for a bloke who wanted a painting of his dog so I thought o give it a go. At first at the Community farm I might have beeen rushing a little with the paint with limited time we had and get the image right by position while painting it, but luckily he gave me the picture of his dog to get the face do e. So i had to think of how to pull through and improvise, some hard time getting the shading right for the fur, but I think this looks really good and just some minor touches for some parts to complete it.

The farmer was very pleased with how it was made and shown it to others in the farm of my talent. I was happy of how it came about and be doing more work in the near future.

Weasel pen illustration

So had some drawings with one of my sketches and did a little improvement on the background for a certain weasel portrait using pens. One of the stuffed animals we used back in college and thought after going through my pages to use it. Making the background differently from the original photo to add some more natural features like a stones, a branch a rock with it crawling over it.

This be the original photo I took when during the day I did some illustrations of animals in college.

Early sketch of the weasel using brown pencil for experimentation and later on used pen for a different pose to try out ideas. 

The Fall of DA

Well, its official, Deviantart, once a great art network community after nearly 2 decades has become a shadow of its former self. All thanks to the people in charge to decide using Eclipse thinking the new format will make it.... better, which made it look terrible, its hard to navigate, unable to sort out where the journals are and not even given bothered ot maybe change the color or choices if they wanted to make it better for a new look. but instead has made it clunky and too flashy. There have been a lot of members talk about leaving and move to other places like Artstation for serious artists, I'm only keeping my account on cause of all the art I favourited over the years and want to look at for inspiration. After being a member of the DA for 13 years, they let fellow artists down and made it worse. So I wont be uploading my work on it anymore and only favouriting artworks that I like or get ideas to inspire.

check it out if you not seen what Eclipse looks like https://www.deviantart.com/

Sketch and artwork updates

been doing some paintings and sketches lately and working on more to catch up on my skills so they don't get rusty. I've managed to get around to finish up the crab with a sandy background and some rocks but getting there, will need some white since I ran out so I had to improvise. still working on it and will let it dry first before get some paints needed to add a bit of layering. And will work on the top as some works and bit of shading later.

The latest one is a sketch of a creature I'm working on as a fire-based character from one of my childhood drawings as a kid and decided to go through my old sketches and remake them after all these years, making this character more agile, flexible with his extended tendrils in place of fires and have the body made up of armor and stone-like skin with the fire coming out of the gaps including the head. Was inspired by the balrog when I first saw it years ago when it first came out and made this. 

This one I did recently based on a watercolored portrait from my sketchbook when I was in college and make a new one on a canvas art using acrylic paint. Made certain to use a photo to help know the color and shading to get the texture right for the feathers and trees. Wanting to take more time drawing and painting while job hunting to be a good artist as I can be to get these noticed, so doing more as I can with more sketches for ideas for future projects.