Getting back into painting

My drawing wrist has been hurt so I decided to paint with my left hand. I started with this digital quick sketch:

And I very loosely started painting this in acrylic (WIP). The colors are based on the digital colors, but aren't exact. 

While not finished, I was done with that for tonight so I took my leftover paint and painted over some existing stuff on a different canvass (also WIP). 

While I didn't intend to, I actually began to think a lot about aesthetics and human consciousness. For instance, I began to ask myself why I was putting certain marks in certain places and really trying to understand why I though it looked better after the stroke. Or did I make it worse? What is better or worse, more pleasing or not? I think these are deep mathematical questions that no human can quite articulate, but they are fun to ponder while painting. I enjoy exploring these notions.

More sketches and viz dev work on projects this semester

These first three are concepts I have done for the "Wake" and "Scary" animations

Here is a photo I took and played around with some effects with

These are some quick sketches, nothing finished

And here is a "Tangled" study I am currently working on (Craig Mullins on the left).

631 Goals

I am continuing to create art that can be selected from for my final MFA show. I have lots of sketches and one final piece done so far this semester, I would like to take more of my ideas and turn them into finalized pieces. I also want to create more physical paintings, as most of mine have so far been digital.

Here are some examples of finalized and sketches from this semester:

Above is one that is completely finished, below are some sketches. 

I am also committed to creating a lot of concept art for two out-of-class animations, "Wake" and "Scary". I would like to create the 2D finalized versions of the environments.