Paint paint fun fun

I've been trying to get into painting more lately. I'm a quite a NOOB at painting, and even more of one when painting in oils and pastels. Here are some paintings I did in the past month.

Both are done with oils on pretty small canvas boards. 6" x 8" I think. For the painting on the left I used a reference from an H&M magazine for practice. The one on the right was from my imagination. I think its easy to tell which on is done with reference and which one isn't.

The two above are of the same subject. Some red plant that's in my backyard. Haha I'm too lazy to travel anywhere with my supplies so I just plant my butt on the porch and paint my backyard. The first one is done in pastel on black paper, and the last one is with oil on gesso panel.

I hope to keep painting, and hopefully improve at it!

Furnace

I decided to post my grad film, since I spent a whole year working on it and now it's not doing anything but sitting in a folder in my computer. Well here it is, please leave a comment and let me know what you guys think. Hope you guys enjoy!

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Here are some early sketches for the film. I might've posted some before so sorry for any repeated work.

A few sketches done during on my to, and back from work. Travel time for me is about 4 hours per day! Ah so looong. Hmm, I definately need to study anatomy again, and start drawing hands better!