Amazing to see the different approaches to this challenge. I love the work of the Old masters and welcomed the opportunity to jump in this OFDW finally and learn from these historic incredible artists.
Intervain and YMS really helps to see how your value study developed and then applied the color over it. Am trying to find the right and most efficient and comfortable way to approach digital painting. Excellent technique. Excellent studies.
SpiritDreamer You will inspire me to try Painter, yet. Great choice and great job thus far.
Rebecca I am studying your impressive description of the fabric. You have that control of the media that I admire so much. Wonderful job.
Indeed, a master copy teaches SO much. As well as humbles immensely. Now an attempt digitally, admire aappreciate the efforts of the many artists that try this medium because it definately has it’s quirks.
Here is my finished Leighton copy. I spent an embarrasingly large amount of hours on this exercise over the span of 3 days.
My lay-in and finish done in Photoshop. Did a direct painting using a hard round and opacity pressure sensitive brush. Color was eyeballed. As I want to learn to see the color accurately I didn’t want to dip the dropper onto the original image color ,as I have done in the past. Instead, I built color in 50% - 100% transparent strokes still controlling opacity by pressure. Used a seperate layer as I worked on each element. e.g. face and chest, hair, clothing. Am learning to control color, value transitions by variable pressure strokes.
This was a thoroughly enjoyable and big learning experience.
That’s it guys I admit defeat, I’ve just spent 2 hours trying to pull that dress into shape and failed miserably…much respect to those who have conquered it here and to the main man Ingres himself, but I a lesser man could not complete the task and therefore take this figure down to a portrait with a little crop tool action…this is it, I’m finished with it!!
