Tuesday, January 30, 2007

Finished Zoo painting

Here are the final steps. I should have been finished this a week ago but haven't been in the right mood.

So this step was painted about a week ago, I roughed in the flesh tones and some of the darks.

Then I contrasted the darks with some bright highlights. I just work back and forth until it looks right to me.

Then it sat for about a week. Today I finally felt patient enough to complete the last bit of detail work. It only took a couple hours, I kinda feel bad for putting it off so long.


I'm pretty happy with the way this piece turned out. I find my art is quite different when I work directly from reference.

3 comments:

Zen said...

WOW! Fantastic! Those final few steps make a huge difference. I can relate to what you mean when you say you are "in the right mood." Sometimes a work needs some time, and the wait certainly paid off.

Evan said...

Yeah, the final product looks great. The skin tones on the forehead are especially great. And I like how her torso is sort of spilling out of her top (for lack of a more gentlemanly phrase). It looks both eerily realistic and cartoony and fun at the same time.

Jason Loo said...

Wow! Everything seems to pop out in the right places. There is a great sense of depth with the giraffes coming forth without surpassing Katie in the foreground.