02-26-2014, 08:06 PM
OK, so after playing around with the top left portrait, I realize I pushed the darks and lights and I did so intentionally after I hit about the 1 hr mark just to experiment. After looking at it for a while I decided to try a color version, which usually I would do an undersketch and start in black and white and use some color and overlay layers and stuff until I could start painting in some actual light skin tones. For some reason I just started picking skin tone colors and blocked in some stuff with no real underpainting, or as much as I would normally do. Colors look like crap so I decided to refer to some artists that have a little more experience in this kind of painting. So the master study is...crap the name eludes me. Beauger........aw forget it!! So the master paint was done kind of like a alla prima, with slight blending. It's really fun, going to do more of these for sure and try to apply them!
