#apaintingeveryday

A few weeks ago I started my new goal, to do a painting everyday. I'm learning a lot and becoming more efficient. If you follow me on FB- zac retz, Instagram- @zacretz, and Twitter- zacdretz you can see all of them. I will post my favorites here.

CTNX

Jillian Altmeyer and I were at CTNX in LA last weekend. So much fun hanging out with friends, 

meeting my art heros, making new friends, doing art trades... Can't wait for next year!

(Second image: Kun Vic Third imgage: Kurt Chang, Adam Dix, Alexandre Diboine, Meg Burk)

Master Studies

Scott Christensen, Thomas Moran, Edgar Alwin

Favorite Time of Year!

1. Values, leading the eye with light. 2. Mid to dark bace to start painting on. 3. Add in areas of light. 4. Sketch in the characters and add some details in point of interest. 5. Details and colors. 6. Finishing details. Added tools and scrap wood to help tell the story. Added more leaves on the right side of the boy for better composition.

Studies

Scott Christensen, Unknown, Tibor Nagy, Mike Boedges, Scott Christensen

Personal Work

A story I'm working on when I have a free sec.

Older Work

In looking at the work I did a year ago, I have learned so much about color and lighting. I made slight adjustments on these two paintings to fix the light for better composition and story telling.

Acrylic Sketches

Personal Project

Some visual development for a graphic novel. (Characters development and story moment sketches.)

This Girl

Working on some things...

Chipmunk Mammoth

A Doodle

I always have a little doodle going on in the corner of my screen when I'm freelancing. Its helpful for me to work on multiple paintings at a time. You don't go numb to what your doing as fast.

Little Unicorn Creature

Character Sketches

Ellie

My artist buddy Ellie Horie!

Personal Work

Acrylic Pleinair

These are painted at 5x5in on watercolor paper.

Some Land Sketches

From Imagination.