So although I desperately would like to say that I was able to finish a few of my unfinished work as mentioned in my last post, it just didn't happen (not yet anyway) Instead, I was pleased to find last week that conceptart.org was holding a sale on demonstration videos from some of my favorite artists. Upon downloading tutorials from both Dan Dos Santos, and Donato Giancola (both of whom I've met and are incredibly nice guys on top of their immense talents) I decided to try to delve into a traditional painting in the manner of their teaching. I must admit, I did not realize how much time goes into the preparation for a painting! From initial thumbnail sketches, to the 3 coats of gesso on illustration board, and then of course there is the transferring of your pencils to the now primed canvas. (at least using Dos Santos' method) after about 9 solid hours of work, i've finally got my pencils down on the canvas and will be able to get in with some colors. (just as soon as i spray it with some workable fixative)
Here's the painting i've decided to go with currently in process. At this point it's just a gray scale drawing, but it should make my painting efforts go much smoother. This will be only my second foray into the world of oil paints, and I'm really looking forward to getting started! Hopefully in a week or so I'll be able to show my continued effort on this project.
The piece is 20" x 30" and the image is one from my favorite book Wizards First Rule by Terry Goodkind.
Beeeee-autiful! I'm a sucker for pencil drawings, and this is very good. :) I look forward to seeing this in progress.
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