Custom brush exercise...

With 2012 coming to an end, it's time to start planning for the new year ahead. 2013 brings a brand new class of teaching the new NMIT students digital painting. I'm really excited about teaching this new class, and have started furiously designing lesson plans.

Above is an example of one of the projects I'm thinking about setting my new students: black and white portraits from a photograph using custom brushes. This example is painted from a photograph taken by professional photographer Lee Jeffries (http://leejeffries.500px.com/). I've used custom oil painting brushes.

I really enjoyed doing this painting, and I'm hoping that my new students will too!