So I am finally able to work again, and I got started with a painting of BOW.
I had traded messages with her, and she was going to suggest a few pictures that she liked, but I ended up starting without her. I'm sure I picked a pretty common one that others would choose to do as it shows off her face and eyes, so I'll eventually do one of the other ones she sent to me at a later date.
If you're familiar with this photoset, she had a second necklace with a big gold sailboat pendant hanging off of it which I chose to omit mostly because of how it didn't really fit right in the cropped composition that I had decided to do. Other than that, a fairly standard start with a detailed pencil drawing.
There were several spots on this painting where I didn't want to lose the white highlights, and there are areas on the necklace where the white highlights were going to go a long way toward being most of the rendering of the jewelry itself. I masked those out with some liquid masking fluid that comes up easily with my finger or an eraser when dry, a lot like rubber cement does. I decided to knock in a little bit of the background tone earlier in the process as well in a better attempt to work the painting as a whole instead of treating it like 2 separate objects (model & background). I thought it might help resolve contrast issues sooner as well.
Just more of everything done at this point. Definitely getting to the more detail-oriented stages of the process. Also, having erased all of the pencil underdrawing at this stage. The photo is darker and warmer than it should be probably giving you a little bit of a wrong impression of what I did to this point.
Done for now. The major concerns on this one turned out to be getting that glass reflective jewelry correct without making it look like it was outlined...doing the color details around the eyes without making her look tired, old or beat up...and shadow areas in other places being dark enough without again looking dirty or like bruises.
All in all I'm pretty happy with this one and I hope that she is pleased with it as well.
This one came off a long delay where I was just unable to sit and work for weeks because of some issue with my back. I started it 3 weeks ago, but really painted 95% of it in the last 2 days. I'm going to keep doing these, but will be working in some other projects as well. I thought I'd have an easier time of selling these, but for whatever reason, its been a struggle and I'm dirt poor and need to find some real illustration work.
As always, comments are 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!
-BHT
I had traded messages with her, and she was going to suggest a few pictures that she liked, but I ended up starting without her. I'm sure I picked a pretty common one that others would choose to do as it shows off her face and eyes, so I'll eventually do one of the other ones she sent to me at a later date.
If you're familiar with this photoset, she had a second necklace with a big gold sailboat pendant hanging off of it which I chose to omit mostly because of how it didn't really fit right in the cropped composition that I had decided to do. Other than that, a fairly standard start with a detailed pencil drawing.
There were several spots on this painting where I didn't want to lose the white highlights, and there are areas on the necklace where the white highlights were going to go a long way toward being most of the rendering of the jewelry itself. I masked those out with some liquid masking fluid that comes up easily with my finger or an eraser when dry, a lot like rubber cement does. I decided to knock in a little bit of the background tone earlier in the process as well in a better attempt to work the painting as a whole instead of treating it like 2 separate objects (model & background). I thought it might help resolve contrast issues sooner as well.
Just more of everything done at this point. Definitely getting to the more detail-oriented stages of the process. Also, having erased all of the pencil underdrawing at this stage. The photo is darker and warmer than it should be probably giving you a little bit of a wrong impression of what I did to this point.
Done for now. The major concerns on this one turned out to be getting that glass reflective jewelry correct without making it look like it was outlined...doing the color details around the eyes without making her look tired, old or beat up...and shadow areas in other places being dark enough without again looking dirty or like bruises.
All in all I'm pretty happy with this one and I hope that she is pleased with it as well.
This one came off a long delay where I was just unable to sit and work for weeks because of some issue with my back. I started it 3 weeks ago, but really painted 95% of it in the last 2 days. I'm going to keep doing these, but will be working in some other projects as well. I thought I'd have an easier time of selling these, but for whatever reason, its been a struggle and I'm dirt poor and need to find some real illustration work.
As always, comments are 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!
-BHT
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Silver Lining:
It gives my plenty of people to make fun of!