Tiger tiger in the Water

[cuddlekytty]

This is where I am after 6 hours painting today. That six hours wasn't supposed to be that long it started with just putting in the stripes. then came cleaning up then water then weeds etc etc.

Comments

[cuddlekytty]

it seems to me that the sketch you started with needed to be worked on a lil more before you started with the paint

huh?

the only sketch I did for this one was the red tiger version. MY problem is even if I continually sketch something before painting I still can't get it right. I may finally get the sketch right but can never duplicate the correct one.

Also when you only have 2 weeks to pull soemthing out along with my other homework doesn't help things. though if I have more time I have the tendecny to obsess over every little detail.

Everyone seems to like my freer painting like the red tiger. which battles with my own idioscincracy of wanting it to look exactly like a picture when that really doesn't have to happen. After all it is my interpretation of it.

In fact one of my friends wants me to have it like the picture but yet exercise artistic freedom by changing it.

I'll be adding fur marks to this guy. and I htink I know a way to fix the seemingly torqued nose. we'll see what happens.

Sorry I rambled a lot just now. I can't go nowhere without seeing the painting I put it in a prominate position so have been thinking about it alot.

[tgnome]

it's driving you bonkers isnb't it :OP
ok i thought you had a pencil sketch under the paint and whati was trying to say is that the eyes and nose are placed a lil wierd and if you had changed the pencils a lil it would have dramatically changed what you have now. but if i was wrong about the pencils being there then just slap me in the head and forget i said anything ;OP

[cuddlekytty]

no pencil my teacher convinced me to try to sketch the base of the tiger with paint. I could see some of the problem I would have had with pencil due to the darkness of the backround.

here's a question artist to artist. do you think if I expanded the black on the eye (the near eye) on the nose side upward a little it might rise the nose line a bit. and I will add some gray and whitish to give it a shiny sheen. Hmm I wonder if that makes sense.

of course being acrylic I can always add it and if it doesn't work then I can always re-whiten it.

[tgnome]

i think the eyes are just a lil too small for the head if you increased the size and moved it in a lil i ythink it would help but i don't know if thats possible with acrylics. alos the perspective of the changes from the nose to the cheeks(where the whiskers comeout of) to the chin so they just confuse me when i look at that area.