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korvidae
08-26-2006, 07:21 PM
Starting with a mastercopy, because my mom is doing one for her art class and I thought I'd follow along with one of my own. Only in digital, because acrylics defeat me. :D

So here we go, one of my favorite Bouguereau's, Calinerie (A Little Coaxing), in sketch stage. As I am working in digital, I have the advantage of being able to put the original image right next to my sketch :).

http://img217.imageshack.us/img217/5033/alc001cc4.jpg

Comments and critiques are greatly appreciated, even if you just say "such and such looks wrong" and can't think of a way to fix it, drawing my attention to it is a great help.
korvidae
08-26-2006, 08:14 PM
Working on roughing out colors. I always feel like using the eyedropper tool is cheating, but in this case I am using it to sample 3 colors from each shade (shadow, midlight, and highlight) and then using those to lay down base tones. Later on when I refine I'll use these colors as a base and go from there with my own mixing.

The skin pallet took one tone from the painting, which I believed to be the "real" color of the skin, and I then chose other colors based on the methods cypherx detailed in her wonderful tutorial. You can find it on her deviantart page, direct link http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/34222893/?qo=10&q=by%3Acypherx+sort%3Atime+-in%3Ascraps. And deviantart's new layout turns that into the most unattractive url ever. But anyway, it's a tutorial that taught me a lot, and deserves a read even if you're already confident with your skin tones. Don't let my horrible rendering when I start doing it influence you, anyone who has ever seen her work knows that she rules at skin.

Background:
http://img101.imageshack.us/img101/3159/alc002ga7.jpg

Figures:
http://img171.imageshack.us/img171/3371/alc003yf4.jpg
korvidae
08-26-2006, 08:29 PM
http://img175.imageshack.us/img175/9669/alc005eq8.jpg

The skin looks a little pink here, but overall I'm happy with the colors. Very happy. And very sad that I have to go to work in half an hour and answer phones. I work at a pizza place, and it's very, very tempting when people say "Can I place an order for delivery?" to say either "NO!" or, "I don't know. CAN you? I'll check." And since I live in Baltimore every sentence is appended with "hon", a word I have stricken from my vocabulary after having discovered just how annoying it is over the phone.

A message to everyone, be nice to the girl taking your order at the pizza place. Remember, she's preparing the food too.

So, I'm off to slug free diet cokes and be sad I'm not painting while taking orders from the greater part of Baltimore and deciphering sentences which are punctuated with errant hons and dealing with order changes left and right. And the wierd thing is, I really DO love my job. I adore it. I wouldn't quit for the world. I must be a masochist.:D And I like money. That too.
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