Big Bang Master Art Post

[growyourwings]

BIG  BANG
ART MASTER POST
I?  Am insane!  Ha!

At least that's what I told myself a few times over the past several weeks when I was grumbling under my breath at some particularly difficult aspect of one of these drawings.

The other line I found myself paraphrasing is the one from The Prophet Chuck.  He said, "Writing is hard!"  I found myself

Comments

[nyoka]

These are so lovely!

[growyourwings]

Thanks!

[runedgirl]

Beautiful!!! Omg, I am in LOVE with the Harley and Sadie ones -- what a fabulous idea! :)

[growyourwings]

I swear I could NOT walk away from drawing Harley. His face is almost as amazing as Jared's. I wanted a Harley icon and then I realized I could do an OTP of the both of them!

ETA: darnit I am SO lazy. I never change my icon even though I have like 100 of them. So I cannot REMEMBER to use one of my bigbang icons for these comments....

[meret]

Beautiful work! :)

[growyourwings]

Thank you!

[dramaa_princess]

this looks really sweet and pretty!! ^__^

[growyourwings]

Thank you!

[bflyw]

These are amazing! wow! I draw and paint myself, and when I see things like this I just wish I had that talent! I am at that point that I can draw really good from a picture if I use a grid to help, but no way I can do free hand (well, almost no way) and I am hopeless at coloring it. I am a bit better with painting nature though. So when I see things like this I can just stare!!!! wonderful art!

just - wow!

[growyourwings]

Thanks! I wouldn't judge yourself so fiercely about using a grid. I double check all my work against reference photos and if I'm really stuck I use a grid-type process myself.

I especially needed to use my dbl-check process on one of the Jensen pictures in these pieces. I finally gave up trying to figure out "by myself" and did a minute comparison against the reference photo for his nose. I finally figured out what was off by doing that and it was only a hairs-length move of his right nostral line that made the difference. I'm not sure I would have found that without that kinda of comparison. That's what I was referring to in my comments about how freaking hard it is for me to draw Jensen.

From what I understand, even the "masters" used grids when needed. Plus the more you use grids, the more you train your eye to hand coordination and will be able to work a little less "grid-less" the next time.

I really appreciate your comments, thanks!

[bflyw]

Thank you :-)
I have actually drawn only 3 portraits in my life! One is of my daughter, and the two others are of the two Js! :-)
If you are interrested they can be seen here:
http://bflyw.livejournal.com/210560.html
http://bflyw.livejournal.com/225990.html
(but only if you are interrested.... It was just such a lovely reply from you!)

[growyourwings]

Wow! Those are terrific! I commented on your posts. Really liked them--thanks for giving me the links.