Mass Wippage: Invictus
Progress shots for my latest Les Miserables painting. I admit that reading War and Peace *might* have had some influence over the direction of the picture...
Don't know why I'm posting this here. Um, maybe because there's nowhere else to archive it? LOL.
Pencil sketch, scanned into Corel PhotoPaint, with a grey-filled layer under the lifted lines.
Thought I'd start with a sepia underpaint. It was a disaster. Threw away the sepia layer, and started anew.
I know! I preach, "Do the background before the foreground"... and go on to (repeatedly) break my own rules. I phail.
Jean Prouvaire is wearing an oriental fabric vest. ROFLMAO.
And at last we see the background... including a wheel I never even planned for.
And... here's a nice little example of how "what I originally planned" and "how it winds up looking" are two utterly different things... No reason why the foreground figures are red, except that it's easier to work with them when I can actually see the dark lineart.
Jehan's leg injury winds up looking more ghastly than it originally did. Also, he managed to tear the elbow of that nice tailcoat...
It's night. There's a gunfight. It's 19th century guns. There's gotta be smoke.
The final version (Jehan's sleeve cuff becomes more tattered, and I repositioned the fingers of his left hand a little...).
Don't know why I'm posting this here. Um, maybe because there's nowhere else to archive it? LOL.
Pencil sketch, scanned into Corel PhotoPaint, with a grey-filled layer under the lifted lines.
Thought I'd start with a sepia underpaint. It was a disaster. Threw away the sepia layer, and started anew.
I know! I preach, "Do the background before the foreground"... and go on to (repeatedly) break my own rules. I phail.
Jean Prouvaire is wearing an oriental fabric vest. ROFLMAO.
And at last we see the background... including a wheel I never even planned for.
And... here's a nice little example of how "what I originally planned" and "how it winds up looking" are two utterly different things... No reason why the foreground figures are red, except that it's easier to work with them when I can actually see the dark lineart.
Jehan's leg injury winds up looking more ghastly than it originally did. Also, he managed to tear the elbow of that nice tailcoat...
It's night. There's a gunfight. It's 19th century guns. There's gotta be smoke.
The final version (Jehan's sleeve cuff becomes more tattered, and I repositioned the fingers of his left hand a little...).