Coinhero's sketchbook

[Coinhero]

@SufferDriver yea you have a point



I'm stopping this study here because I don't want to work on it for too long, getting all the details from the original isn't really my goal. I enjoyed painting it in a more natural to me style rather than trying to make it look like the original. Some conclusions I had while making this are I don't understand how to use white as a color while all of Alma-Tadema's paintings have either white of black in them. Also realized you can use saturation to make something look darker and that is something that I was playing around with while making this. Lastly if you look at the original reference all the color and value changes are very subtle while I paint like a gorilla with a paint brush, in part the subtlety come from having everything super detailed and my version is very rough but still... gorilla painting. I got really lazy with the marble and just kind of rushed it but I think if I use some my mixer brushes it wouldn't be very hard to get it to look like the reference.
In general I'm happy with this, I couldn't get the same feeling as the original tho, maybe if I go over and make everything a bit more soft but then I would just be trying to change the style more than everything else that gives a painting its mood.