I can hear a little!
Dec. 23rd, 2022 11:59 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lillilahIn happy news, I can now hear a little from my right ear. It isn't 100%, and my left ear is still uncomfortable and bubbling. However, it is pretty great to have at least some hearing on that side.
In other news, like yesterday, I spent too much time on my projects and not enough time eating, which resulted in me eating dinner way too late. I have to stop doing that. However, I went over my sphinx painting with what I learned from looking at nighttime mountain images, and it is now _much_ better. The next thing I need to do is decide how much detail I want to put into it. What I should not do is try to paint in all the lines on the wings. However, I could paint the wings the background color and then paint the feather relief over that with a slightly lighter color. It would give the appropriate result and also look nice if I use one brush stroke per feather. I think that is the "painterly" thing to do. Other than that, I just need to smooth out the shading on the sphinxes bodies, add some details to the snakes, then add stars to the sky and glow to the sphinxes. I am pretty sure that I can add glow to them by using a gold wash. However, I really need to test that first, since I have only used a wash successfully a few times (and that was on plants, which were hard to screw up). Stars, I think, should be easy if I just cover everything that doesn't need stars with masking tape and/or paper and then flick paint at it. I am pretty sure that I wrote down my space painting technique, so I'll follow that when I get to that step.
In other news, like yesterday, I spent too much time on my projects and not enough time eating, which resulted in me eating dinner way too late. I have to stop doing that. However, I went over my sphinx painting with what I learned from looking at nighttime mountain images, and it is now _much_ better. The next thing I need to do is decide how much detail I want to put into it. What I should not do is try to paint in all the lines on the wings. However, I could paint the wings the background color and then paint the feather relief over that with a slightly lighter color. It would give the appropriate result and also look nice if I use one brush stroke per feather. I think that is the "painterly" thing to do. Other than that, I just need to smooth out the shading on the sphinxes bodies, add some details to the snakes, then add stars to the sky and glow to the sphinxes. I am pretty sure that I can add glow to them by using a gold wash. However, I really need to test that first, since I have only used a wash successfully a few times (and that was on plants, which were hard to screw up). Stars, I think, should be easy if I just cover everything that doesn't need stars with masking tape and/or paper and then flick paint at it. I am pretty sure that I wrote down my space painting technique, so I'll follow that when I get to that step.
