visual journal – Page 4 – Gina Lento: Fine Art and Illustration

Friendly Faces Day 18

Today’s prompt is toothy grin… I took the photo to show the sketchbook that I have been using for this challenge…

I joined this challenge to brush up on my gouache skills. Not that I really need it but when I play with a material for a while, creative things happen. I use two different types of gouache and this one is chalky and you can reactivate it. It handles differently so I like to tryContinue reading “Friendly Faces Challenge”

Friendly Face Day 15

35 days to go! Today’s prompt is “excited.”

Friendly Face Day 14

Prompt #14 – Fade. I had to get a little creative with this one. I thought of an old polaroid photo and this is what I came up with…

Friendly Face Day 13

Today’s prompt is “young.”

Friendly Face Day 12

Day 12? Yup. Day 11 is complete but I was too exhausted to post yesterday. John and I ran out to do a few errands and I had a mishap where I gave my rib cage a good accidental whack because of my flip flops, which pretty much fouled the rest of my day. IContinue reading “Friendly Face Day 12”

50 Friendly Faces Day 8

Today’s prompt is “up do.” This was sketched with pencil and gouache in my homemade sketchbook on Stonehenge paper. This hasn’t been touched up digitally and the reference photo came from the Sktchy app.

50 Friendly Faces Day 6

Today’s prompt is “large nose.” This is Stuart Goss on The Sktchy App. I hope he doesn’t mind that I took artistic license with his features, lol.

Square Flowers

I love working in Square sketchbooks. This one is actually a square Moleskine I found somewhere. I don’t remember where I purchased it. The paper isn’t the best for wet media so I only use the one side but that’s ok because I have been able to do some surprising projects in it, most ofContinue reading “Square Flowers”

Figment

Figment is another imaginary creature, so for you model horse folks that follow me, Figment isn’t meant to be anatomically correct….she’s just another of the many creatures that wander the pages of my sketchbooks….and started as a random mark on the page…. Figment is a small stocky pony that lives on the Emerald Isle. SheContinue reading “Figment”