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| So it's been way too long since I last posted but here's proof that I'm still working and at least mostly alive (I've been sick for the last month). This is an illustration for a story I'm working on, a scene where the main character "Kans" gets into a situation that causes her some problems and it's my first try at oils in a while. Donato Giancola's Joan of Arc video inspired the medium and I used a lot of the techniques from the video in setting this picture up. Because of that I wanted to share my in-progress pics as well |
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| Here's the transferred under-drawing sealed to the board with matte medium |
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| I used a greenish acrylic wash over the skin and tried to lay in some basic colors and values before starting in on the hand with oils. |
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| From there I moved on to the face because I knew the rest of the painting needed to center around Kans's expression. |
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| My reference spent as much time stuck to my painting as it could before it got forced out by wet paint. I modeled for this one myself and got very good at making concerned faces, hopefully it doesn't still look like me too much. |
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| Backgrounds. This was probably the first one I actually enjoyed painting. |
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| Pipes and dials! I stepped outside my comfort zone and used a palate knife to rough up the wall. |
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| I tried to sneak as much color as I could into the reflective metal surfaces. |
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| Almost there! Everything's covered and it just needs the finishing touches.... |
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| ....which for this scene meant a lot of blood. Sorry, Kans. The hardest part of the painting was making myself cover up parts of the image that I had worked so hard on but I was happy with the result. |
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| Final close up. |
