By Kevin
Filed in Uncategorized, new artwork
Tagged with acrylic, bride, colored pencils, demon, detail, devil, fantasy, Gia, new art finished, oil pastels, paint, work progress
September 3rd, 2010 @ 10:01 pm
I did some tests for dripping paint, and satisfied with the results, I cautiously added red drips to the painting. Whenever one would touch the model, I held up a towel to absorb the excess so it wouldn’t’ drip into it. Since I relied on gravity to create the dip lines, some are not parallel due to the curving of the paper. If I could’ve secured the corner flat, I would’ve, but I wanted the paint to go across corner to corner. It adds an off-kilter feel to the piece, which I think is appropriate.
With that done, I mixed a purple gray acrylic and painted the skull down to the cheeks, leaving the eye sockets and below the cheeks as they were. This gives it more solidity, but still doesn’t pull it too forward in the focus. With the subtle hints of detail in the face, I think it’s right where I want it, so I won’t add anything more to that.
The final stage was fine details in the face and hair. I switched between colored pencils and oil pastels as needed, finishing with a brush dipped in turpenoid to blend it all smooth.
Once the oil had dried sufficiently, I scanned the painting, and have it up and ready in the website here.
Devil's Bride
By Kevin
Filed in Uncategorized, new artwork
Tagged with colored pencils, cowgirl, gouache, Kneely, lasso, new art finished, oil pastels, paint, pinup, work progress
August 22nd, 2010 @ 8:29 pm
I finished up all the details today. I used a mix between colored pencils, brushed oil pastels using turpenoid, and blending with my finger and tortillions. I added a bit of an outline to the skin and gloves to complete the ‘classic pin-up’ style, then refined the hair with gouache paint.
Nothing more I can see to do, so it’s scanned and available now right here.
Yeehaw!
Today I spent time covering all the skin areas. I re-applied the masking around the areas, then section by section I would use colored pencils to for the base colors and contours, followed by oil pastels to blend. Most of the areas don’t have too much fine detail, so I took time to get the contours down to nearly the final look.
With the time I had left tonight, I started detailing the face and torso using colored pencils. It should be no problem finishing this tomorrow…
I started the day blocking in the skin, this time trying watercolor pencils instead of colored pencils (no wax, so possibly better blending, plus a different variety of colors to work with). I used the pencils to rough in the color and contour of each section, then applied oil pastels (mostly white and light flesh) over them, blending together with my fingers…
These areas weren’t too big, so I was done fairly early in the day, so I began detailing some of the areas. The face got the most work, nearly finishing it tonight. I also darkened the hair once I saw how it matched to the skin, and worked on the tie. I mixed a pink, red, gray and white gouache and painted the tie in light coats, building it up darker and darker. I’ll finish it tomorrow, likely with colored pencils, giving it a subtle design. For now, I added a cherry icon to its bottom…
By Kevin
Filed in Uncategorized, new artwork
Tagged with Amber, colored pencils, comic book, flesh, new art finished, oil pastels, skin, turpenoid, work progress
August 2nd, 2010 @ 7:52 pm
I got caught up in the work yesterday, so I failed to stop and take a picture when I finished blocking in the skin areas. With so few areas and small space, it didn’t take long to do, so I quickly moved into the detail work.
After creating the main contours of the skin with colored pencils and oil pastels blended in, I used colored pencils on top to refine the facial features. I also used more oil pastels to build up more depth and color in the cheeks and nose. I continued down, adding details to the neck and arms, then the thighs (mostly just subtle shadows around the clothing). Before going back to the face for the make-up design, I painted the fingers using gouache. It’s a bit of a trick matching the skin tones to the oil pastels on the arms, especially since gouache dries a different tone than it is when wet (one of many reasons I no longer use only paint in my work). Luckily, gouache is easy to rework by getting it moist again, so I would add a bit of color here and there to mix it on the board until it matched to my liking. Next, I painted the nails green and also the little ribbon showing in her left glove. While this yellow-green mix of paint was still wet on the palette, I painted very lightly some highlight edging on the dress to help bring it out away from the background.
The the paint done, I returned to oil pastels, this time using them with a brush dipped in turpenoid. I painted the eyeliner with black, adding lashes as well. Then I mixed a dark green and painted the make-up. I didn’t realize it is very similar to the character ‘Dawn’ by Linsner until I was adding the highlights to the drips. Perhaps it was in my subconscious, but I really didn’t want to repeat someone else’s work. At least mine has numerous drips and is green, so not a direct copy, thankfully.
I’m content with it today, so I’ve scanned and uploaded to the website, ready to view here.
Poison
I finalized the packing today, sealing up the box for shipment on Thursday. With that out of the way now, I expect to finish this piece by tomorrow. Today though, I worked on covering all the flesh with the colored pencils and oil pastels. Working with such large areas takes its toll, and I have a few blistered fingers to show for it, but it is covered now. Since the hair is so loose hanging on her left shoulder, I masked out a wide area to protect the paint. I’ll blend that together tomorrow…
Detailing this piece went well, and I finished quickly. I think this is due to neither hand showing, and much of the body and legs covered in clothing. This allowed me to concentrate on the face, and even it was easy enough. Colored pencils were too grainy on this board, so I went with using a brush dipped in turpenoid with the oil pastels. Sometimes this creates to harsh a line for my taste, but I’m learning more to control it, getting more blend out of it now. Perhaps in times this will take over all my pencils detailing, who knows.
In any case, it’s done now, and available here in the store.
Ladybug
By Kevin
Filed in Uncategorized
Tagged with colored pencils, flesh, gesso, gouache, ladybug, Mackenzie, masking, oil pastels, paint, pinup, skin, work progress
July 7th, 2010 @ 9:52 pm
I got a little too involved with the work today, so I missed taking a photo between the paint and skin work.
I started the paint work with black gouache on the wing spots, since they were faded from the copper coating yesterday. While I had the black out, I blocked in the bustier (back half), garters, stockings tops, and shoes. Next, I painted the facial features and blocked in the hair with various browns. Then I used a gray for the front of the bustier and added some details to the black areas. I followed that with red for the bustier cup and the panties. I considered bringing the red down into the legs and shoes, but decided to keep the bright colors around the torso and face. I added some details to the hair next, and then used white for highlighting the black areas. I completed the paint phase by coating the skin areas with the textured gesso.
Later, I started on the skin, using colored pencils and oil pastels to blend. With the painted areas masked off, it was fairly easy to cover all the areas…
Today started with masking out the entire image. Then I mixed a light blue acrylic and airbrushed the top third and bottom third of the board, fading into the center. Next, I mixed a soft green and filled in the center, blending outward. I used a diluted black for the shadow below the model, then covered the entire background with pearl and red ‘sparkles’.
Once dry, I rearranged the masking to expose only the wings and stockings. Although ladybug wings/shells are commonly shown as bright red, many of the photos I researched looked more copper. So, with that in mind, I mixed an orange/brown acrylic and airbrushed the wings as a base color. I also used this color as a start for the stockings, too. Then I mixed a bright red and covered them again, going light toward the highlight ends. Next, I mixed a light sienna and covered the stockings, suggesting the skin showing through. I continued with darker browns, creating the contours on both the wings and stockings until I got down to near black. Once dry, I brush painted black gouache on the wings’ spots. The final airbrushing was a copper ‘sparkle’ added to the wings. I was going to use the airbrush for the highlights, but I’ve had difficulty finding the right thickness for white to make it opaque, yet not clog the needle. Instead, I used oil pastels for the white highlights on the wings…
