While I was still waiting on a couple of people that were in the process of finding and sending me their suggested photos to paint, a friend suggested a portrait of Akemi. I had done the last painting smaller, so I still had the other half of that watercolor paper stretched and stapeled to my board. With the smaller area, I thought a close-up face portrait would be the best choice.
I like models that have unique or distinct qualities including but not limited to exotic facial features and hair, or a picture that has some interesting challenge like a funky outfit, wild tattoos or strange lighting. More often that not I struggle looking through thousands of images trying to find something that inspires me to pick that one as the one to paint or draw, and most times its not going to be the traditional naked girl poses. Anyway, this image, had a few qualities that made me want to give it a go.
This one took me forever to complete. It should have taken between half a day and a full day to complete but I did something to my back that has me in a considerable amount of pain and sitting or standing at my little desk for more than half an hour at a time wasn't happening.
I think I picked my dog up wrong and now I'm really limited when I'm not laying down. The fat old bastard can't do stairs anymore so I have to carry him up and down 2 flights of stairs 3-4 times a day which is even more fun when your back hurts. I even had to call my friend this morning and tell him I couldn't go with him to see Blue Oyster Cult play tonight...no cowbell for me
There weren't many issues painting this one, and while I'm sure you're enthralled hearing me bitch about my sore back, I'm really just posting the earlier pictures with not much explanation as to what I was doing. Its fairly self-explanitory, and this is still an early stage where I am still just beginning to put colors in where I think they belong.
Here's the "getting much closer" picture where I have gotten to a stage where I feel I need to put in some much darker values and the background to make sure that I have all the value and contrast relationships correct. A lot of times before I do this, I think parts of the face are dark enough and then once the darker parts are laid in I realize those same areas still need more work. Same with the edges of the figure. When next to the white page, they seem much darker than when next to the background color.
Done for now...although to be honest, I think that I did not have the correct paintbrush for handling the finer lines of her chest tattoo. I usually am able to use the tip of a larger brush to do fine lines, but either the brush or my faculties are becoming more dull and I'm thinking I need to go spring for a much smaller brush just for detail work.
Here's a photo of the little desk I work on in the little corner of my apartment bedroom. You can see it also serves double duty as my computer desk. I have 2 lamps on either side of me as my gypsy lighting system and an old chair from a hair salon that I can raise and lower that I love to spin around in. I leave finished paintings tacked to the wall in front of me while I work, taking them down occasionally to do a little more work on them if I feel I need to.
Comments welcome and requests are done first come, first serve. If you know anyone in need of an illustrator or fine artist, please send them my way!
Like this one, they'll all go on auction on eBay after I paint them so that I can afford to keep doing this. If you like one, you're encouraged to BID NOW!
-BHT
I like models that have unique or distinct qualities including but not limited to exotic facial features and hair, or a picture that has some interesting challenge like a funky outfit, wild tattoos or strange lighting. More often that not I struggle looking through thousands of images trying to find something that inspires me to pick that one as the one to paint or draw, and most times its not going to be the traditional naked girl poses. Anyway, this image, had a few qualities that made me want to give it a go.
This one took me forever to complete. It should have taken between half a day and a full day to complete but I did something to my back that has me in a considerable amount of pain and sitting or standing at my little desk for more than half an hour at a time wasn't happening.
I think I picked my dog up wrong and now I'm really limited when I'm not laying down. The fat old bastard can't do stairs anymore so I have to carry him up and down 2 flights of stairs 3-4 times a day which is even more fun when your back hurts. I even had to call my friend this morning and tell him I couldn't go with him to see Blue Oyster Cult play tonight...no cowbell for me
There weren't many issues painting this one, and while I'm sure you're enthralled hearing me bitch about my sore back, I'm really just posting the earlier pictures with not much explanation as to what I was doing. Its fairly self-explanitory, and this is still an early stage where I am still just beginning to put colors in where I think they belong.
Here's the "getting much closer" picture where I have gotten to a stage where I feel I need to put in some much darker values and the background to make sure that I have all the value and contrast relationships correct. A lot of times before I do this, I think parts of the face are dark enough and then once the darker parts are laid in I realize those same areas still need more work. Same with the edges of the figure. When next to the white page, they seem much darker than when next to the background color.
Done for now...although to be honest, I think that I did not have the correct paintbrush for handling the finer lines of her chest tattoo. I usually am able to use the tip of a larger brush to do fine lines, but either the brush or my faculties are becoming more dull and I'm thinking I need to go spring for a much smaller brush just for detail work.
Here's a photo of the little desk I work on in the little corner of my apartment bedroom. You can see it also serves double duty as my computer desk. I have 2 lamps on either side of me as my gypsy lighting system and an old chair from a hair salon that I can raise and lower that I love to spin around in. I leave finished paintings tacked to the wall in front of me while I work, taking them down occasionally to do a little more work on them if I feel I need to.
Comments welcome and requests are done first come, first serve. If you know anyone in need of an illustrator or fine artist, please send them my way!
Like this one, they'll all go on auction on eBay after I paint them so that I can afford to keep doing this. If you like one, you're encouraged to BID NOW!
-BHT
sky:
you are so talented!
the_5th_jinx:
I think it's interesting to see an artist's workspace, it's easy to see that you get a lot of work done here. I need some sort of setup like this hahahah.