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Technique
We starting with lose sketch, at this point the most important things are good plan the objects on the canvas, composition, attractive body poses, not like stiff animals, mass of course -we are trying to give them physical feeling on “wire” construction already, we drawing spine, and main bones, but also body build where is more mass and where is low.
We do not afraid to make changes, after all we are doing this sketch to make any possible changes when it is still simple, not when it will be finished and polished -we save our time.
When it is basically ready, we adding contour - I usually don’t paint like that, but as I said I am trying to give it a little bit of that 50s movie posters feeling. After that we clear construction, best is to turn off the layer as we might (and we will) need that later on.
Time to color, again -it is not my regular way of work, I usually paint color composition first, but this way we going to get that comic book style.
Now it is time to give the shapes a 3D feel - so we add shadows and lights, we going to use our construction again not to paint “in the air” but always check where those bones are under the skin etc
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Of course this is only reconstruction of the process, as I never record my work, I simple do it too fast to think about capturing it , but you’ll get the picture - your job is to capture the 3D feeling and give it realistic look. Mixing colors , choosing palette and finally put them on shapes , paint those curves , gently , smooth...it is something you learn for years, picture after picture, and skills jumps to another level rather on each “hundred” instead of dozen, painted. So if you wonder how I did it, I can answer only one way -you just need to be patient and work hard you will see after a while you will do it almost automatically. Naturally you are not obligate to know every bone ,or muscle and how it reflect the light and cast shadow- it is simply countless possibilities and configurations for that , obviously you shall use some reference. If you have beautiful wife that part can be even fun, if not you still can us some photos - just be careful, painting 3D from 2D reference is much much difficult than from real object it simply require more artistic and geometric imagination.
Finally we add some life to the picture, with brush switched to “dodge color” I made strongest highlights, in the air I placed some participles like dust etc, they make the scene living environment, they also separate plans adding depth feeling.
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