Finally found some time to draw! I was going to do a more realistic portrait, but when I sketched out the silhouette for this one I kinda liked the grungy impressionistic vibe, so I went with it.
Tag: Women
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Color values
Painting color is a tricky thing. It´s easy to slap a few flat colors on something but to make them a harmonious whole, to know where to apply those tonal differences, that´s the hard part. Since I´ve started doing color studies the past few weeks I´m already starting to notice that where applying color and light once filled me with a minor sense of dread, it is now slowly becoming automatism. It is training to see more than training to paint, really.
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Wilde words
After watching The Words tonight I felt compelled to paint this striking shot from the movie.
Done in photoshop in about an hour.
I feel this film deserves more recognition than it got, it’s a surprisingly heartfelt story about people and the mistakes they make. If you haven’t seen it, it deserves a look.
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Credit where credit is due
The other day I came across these amazing moviestill paintings on DeviantArt, and I refused to believe they were real (as in not painted over). Then I tried it myself today.
Turned out pretty good! It took me about two hours, no paintovers, 0% colorpicking, just a lot of comparing back and forth.
The still is from the movie It’s A Boy Girl Thing, a highschool bodyswap movie from 2006. Last night I stumbled upon it as I was flipping through the channels, and I was surprisingly captivated by what first seemed to be a run-of-the-mill movie. It took many of the tired conventions of the genre and mixed them up in interesting ways.
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Headshot
A while ago, Alison Sudol (of A Fine Frenzy fame) set up a contest for a new DeviantArt ID. This is sort of like an avatar that appears on your DeviantArt page to accompany your bio. I thought I’d give it a shot, it was a nice challenge in compositing a more artistic image as opposed to what I normally draw. I tried to keep it close to her aesthetics, and that must have paid off, because I won!
This image now graces the official A Fine Frenzy DeviantArt page:
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Snowgazing
A random doodle I made during work today.
Sitting next to the small window in our office is a perfect spot to observe the people walking by. This girl stopped in front of the windows in the corridor for a while to look at the sudden snowfall, forgetting all about the phone call she was in the middle of.
