This is the first extensive piece since I have started digging into anatomy again. I spent the majority of my time working in grey-scale, before moving into colour. Its so easy to lose the larger volumes when rendering the details of musculature. Each time I spent rendering a particular area of muscle I found I would have to zoom back out and work to integrate that detail into the broader volumes of mass....
Maybe Ill post some progress shots of this...
4 comments:
This is really awesome! Amazing work really! ^^
You're lucky, I'm still on the light and shadow understanding stage and I really have trouble with it.. It's so complex (but terribly interesting)! If you have any tips about that, they're welcome! ;)
Lale,
Thanks so much for your kind words.
I did find some very effective ways to study lighting.
1>Paint from life. It is very important to paint still lifes and plein air. Nothing else teaches you how light and shadow work.
2>Copy master paintings. Sargent, Rembrandt, Bouguereau, etc... Be analytical and try and understand their process.
Hope that helps.
:)
I find myself getting into how seriously you are taking the anatomy portion of it- and I am blown away by how you make the muscle so fluid with the female form and so solid with the dude, but then that pug in the background sends me off on a Alice in Wonderland sort of trip - Classic Jesse.
hahaha
awesome! Glad Im trippin you out Wren!
Everyone check out Wrens watercolour comic project on his blog!
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