Naked Art Work progress of artist Kevin Clark

I have this loose rule with my work, I try to never paint the same model twice in a row. My reasons – it keeps a variety in my gallery; it keeps the images fresh to me, as I’m not ‘redoing’ the same face; and it spreads out the photo shoots to last longer. So, with that in mind, although I have a drawing ready to be painted from last week, I avoided it due to it being the same model I just painted (Kneely). I will get to it, but will put it aside for a few weeks, or until I cannot create any new ideas elsewhere. I was close to feeling this way, but managed to push through and find something else that might be fun.
The image I came up with is a sexy maid concept, from a shoot I had a few months ago (with Percolate). I had trouble with the pose and outfit working in a way I liked. I ended up piecing together a total of 5 photos to create this one. Photoshop is a great tool for playing with ideas, but it’s still tricky to make it all fit together in a believable way (lucky I don’t move around much during shoots, so my perspective and position are relatively the same in each photo). One issue I had was her left hand – she wore black net gloves, and the hand is right in front of the black net skirt, so it seemed to disappear. I liked the black gloves, so avoided changing it at first, but in the end I made it white net instead. Other things I altered were the skirt’s height (which meant I needed more leg to show, so I had to find bare legs in the same position), and added the right arm (original only showed the elbow). I’m sure I could have simply drawn these adjustments freehand without photo reference, but I feel better if I can find real reference, as I feel it keeps the model ‘intact’ and eases my view of the lighting. Had I not found reasonable pieces to fit, I would’ve ‘faked’ them then…
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model – Percolate