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I loved the sketch for this and the painting isn’t quite capturing it, so I’m wondering if, at this WIP stage, it might make sense to go in next with pencil crayons and see if i can’t capture more of what I’m looking for gesturally.
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Painted this in short bursts over several years – drew it in 2018, and printed it out on watercolour paper and started painting during the pandemic, and finished it last week. Gouache layered with neocolor iis on cold press paper.
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starting up a big one on 18 x 24 mixed media paper! the composition has already expanded beyond my original border but I will just have to deal with that when we wrap this up.
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starting to populate this place with Stuff….
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getting a feel for who lives here now… and adding a lot more background interest too.
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committing to the lighting and starting to maybe actually solve these values! but shit I really need a darker green than what I have in my palette.
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way, way more stuff! and I picked up a tube of W&N perylene black, an inky green-black that is absolutely hitting the spot for me. next up: living creatures? let’s not get TOO wacky…
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click the image to zoom in We are inching ever closer every day to the launch of the Swords Without Master kickstarter, which I am involved with as the art director and as an illustrator in my own right, and I wanted to share my first folio card with you!
I’ll be back later this week with a thorough breakdown of my process, because I had some real dark nights of the soul in the middle of this but I learned a lot about what I want out of the art I make, and I am excited about taking this process forward into the rest of the illustrations!
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in a Robert Bateman sketchbook, using Neopastels from Caran d’Ache.
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painted on canson mi-tientes pastel paper
2 responses to “Wolf in oil pastel”
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I love this
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✨!
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